Paintings By the Craftista

These paintings and drawing were done quite a while ago, but partly because of a bad camera I didn't take these pictures until now. Both paintings feature a character of mine, which if you look throughout the blog will recognize in the dolls that I created some years ago. I had always wanted to do paintings featuring my Louise Brooks

inspired character and often sketched little portraits of her in different costumes and settings. I was really happy with both results and have both paintings hanging in my apartment. The one with the green skin is of course the wicked witch of the west, and the one with the orange cap on is just one that I thought of sort of free style to go along with the red and yellow pattern in the background. In both cases I glued on gems as embellishment, which I feel adds a nice 3 dimensional finishing touch. I have planned on painting other wizard of oz inspired portraits, just haven't gotten around to finishing them. One portrait that I have worked on some is one made to

look like glinda of oz. When I do get around to finishing that I will of course post a picture here as well. The last photo of this post is a drawing of my girl wearing a little carrot couture costume. I've actually sketched her in various other fruit and vegetable inspired outfits. I think it would be the cutest to create little outfits for my dolls like these. The carrot couture drawing I have taped to the window of my school office. It adds a nice cheery touch to look at now and then for some eye rest from the computer. :-)