The Real Frida

This video clip of Frida is amazing. Its not brilliant quality, but its definitely worth watching. The music is rather wonderful, too.

Frida Shrine

I've been ignoring Frida recently, so I decided to make a little shrine for her . I made it out of paperclay, painted it with pewter metallic paint, rubbed it with gold metallic rub-on..........

.......rubbed a lot of it off again, stuck on her picture, covered it with Glossy Accents and decorated it. I've covered the hole up at the front but it can still be hung on the wall from the back using a little nail. The whole thing is 7cm tall. Now Im going to find a challenge where I can use this technique and make another one.

Two torsos

Butterflies

Two more Fridas....the second one using my favourite Frida picture and my favourite font.

Belleza

I'm having a crafting day all by myself ..... at last!
So finally I can get on with my torso swaps. Thanks to everyone who is joining in.... you'll be getting one (or two) of these.
This one is my favourite - I don't think I could repeat it as it started off as a random collage of different papers and kind of grew from there. I drew and cut out the little flowers and wrote Kahlo by hand. Belleza means beautiful.


More later when I can persuade blogger to put pictures where I want them!

Torso Challenge

Well I'm off to Skiathos tomorrow so no posts from me for just over a week. In the meantime, I thought I'd copy Rosie's idea and give you a challenge.

This is my Frida torso..I'll make more when I get home and swap with anyone who wants to have a go. I suggest a female icon as your theme.

No rules about the shape of the torso - just make it roughly ATC sized as mine is.

I hope you'll give it a go!

Adio!

Love Linda xx

PS For those of you who asked, this is the link for the felt balls:

rainbow silks

PPS Thanks to those who asked about my thumb - its just about healed! (Its a numb thumb though - probably no nerve endings left!)

Frida Book Cover

Just thought I'd show the cover for my Frida book - proof that I've actually started it!
I've used some of the Invoke stamps. There are 8 in the set; 4 pictures, a symbol, a quote and 2 words.
I've double embossed the picture and the symbol to bring the colours out (I always think of Tina when I do this!)
Rosie has kindly agreed to bind the pages for me when its complete as she has a special machine.
Brian and I have just spent over 5 hours decorating and mowing lawns at mums. Now I really must go and make the ATCs and Art Dolls I've promised people!
Byeee....
Linda xx

Frida Shrine

Just a little Frida shrine I made last night.

I started with one of the lovely Invoke Funky House images stamped onto a background I'd previously created using Adirondack Colour Wash Sprays.

I love Tina's idea of clear embossing over the top of your work - it really accentuates the colours.

Here are 3 similar backgrounds I made at the same time. I just used 2 colours; Lettuce and Stream. Hope to buy some more soon though! Thanks for the inspiration Karen.

Happy crafting!

Linda xx

Frida Kahlo ATC

I decided to have a go at making a Frida/icicle doll/ATC. The background is a piece of flat bonded Angelina (unfortunately you can't see the shimmer on the photo) and the body is stamped A/F. The butterfly was stamped on Angelina film. I have embossed the face and wings at the top to give them some thickness and shine.

I ordered the film 'Frida' today from Amazon, plus 'The Diary of Frida Kahlo' - both have fantastic reviews.

Thank you Judy for telling me about the film in the first place and thank you also Jacky for helping me discover Belinda's blog. She is an amazing artist and has posted lots of artwork, pictures and information about Frida. She has even visited her house in Mexico - Casa Azul; the photos are stunning. You'll see where I got my inspiration for the Frida doll - Belinda is the 'Queen of Icicle Dolls'!

Off now to have a think about Chriss's new challenge - its a good one! Go and see for yourself..

Love Linda x

Frida Kahlo

I've been reading about Frida Kahlo recently - I've been fascinated by her paintings for along time, but I've only just found out about her life.

She was Mexican, born in 1907 just before the revolution. She painted many self portraits. She had polio and spina bifida as a child and at the age if 18 was involved in an horrific road accident which left her with multiple injuries. She took up painting whilst in hospital.

If you want to find out any more, or see some of her paintings, have a look at www.tendreams.org/kahlo.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo.Hope you like my tribute pieces anyway! The picture is the size of an ATC, the basis was a stamp by Invoke Arts (funky houses). I just got carried away and added more to it!

The face and the wings on the doll were printed onto fabric. The flowers are made of paper.

Hugs

Linda