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BITSY The Mini Bear Cub

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:15:34 -0400

$8.00
Bitsy is the sweetest bear cub I know...

She was hand sculpted from polymer clay, painted (even her nails are painted pink!), and antiqued with an aged crackle look by the artist. She's ready to sit on your favorite shelf and loves to paint her nails, watch old movies, and snack on popcorn!

Bitsy stands 1 1/4" tall from base to tip of bear cub ear.

You will get the exact bear cub in these photos. :)

PERSISTENCE BREEDS FAMILIARITY Fine Art Print

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:37:47 -0400

$13.00
This is another print from my series "A Pattern, A Process, A Price," which is inspired by my flea market find of a woman's home economics scrapbooks from the 1940's. I based my drawings of woman's hand on something I read in an essay that she wrote. Her essay was about the three things she wanted to accomplish that year, and one of them was to have smoother, softer hands and "glamour-length fingernails."

To find out what her other two goals were, purchase the print, and I'll include a xerox of her original hand written essay as an added bonus!

I adapted this essay and some of the text found within the scrapbooks to create this little print, and the original work was made by layering silkscreen prints on top of a monoprint (oil painting on glass transferred to paper) background.

The image measures 5" x 5", printed onto 8" x 10" heavy high-quality, archival matte photo stock (thick and bright white) and will come to you sandwiched between cardboard so that it will stay flat. It was professionally printed in a print shop, and there is a 1.5" white border on each side of the image, a 2" border on top of the image, and a 3" border at the bottom of the image.

Signed by the artist and shipped flat between cardboard.

GWEN with the Pretty Hair...

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:48:09 -0400

$42.00
Gwen is sassy but sweet, and she is ready to come to your house and live on your wall! She is made from a 5" x 7" oval shaped canvas painted with acrylics, and her hair is super soft 100% baby alpaca roving (the kind that hand spinners use when making yarn) made into a wig and attached to the canvas. The entire piece measures about 6" x 8" and is signed by the artist and ready for hanging.

Thanks for looking! For more information about my work, please see my website and blog:
www.TessaMcSorley.com
www.howtomakeart.blogspot.com

COMMITTING AND CONFIDING Original Art Lithograph

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:24:29 -0400

$14.00
I found a marriage certificate from the 1800's for sale at a flea market a little while ago, and I was so surprised that somethng so personal and important could just end up being for sale in a makeshift booth...I had to purchase the certificate and recreate it in this lithograph. I drew what I imagined the couple to look like, and the piece turned out very layered and mysterious.

"Committing and Confiding" is an original hand drawn and hand printed stone lithograph. It is printed on thin and beautiful Japanese rice paper and measures 10" x 6.5" wide. There are only 8 prints in this small edition, and this is number 5 out of 8. It will ship flat between cardboard, and it's ready to be framed!

ABOUT THE PROCESS:
Lithography is one of the tricker forms of printmaking (and artmaking...) that exists! You have to carry around heavy limestone tablets which you then grain at a special sink using tiny pieces of sand to wear away and smooth out the surface of the stone. Then you draw your image with a grease pencil, and you can work both additively and subtractively - drawing on then carving off your lines - until you get a perfect image. You do several etching processes using acid and water, but I would need my litho handbook to tell you more about those in detail - it gets confusing... Then you cross your fingers and roll your image up with ink, hoping that you etched it correctly and end up seeing your drawing and not some large black blob. The plus side is that a stone lithograph pulled by hand is as rich and nuanced (if not more) as a charcoal drawing, and you can make multiple prints of your drawing from a single stone image.

This print is special because the edition is so small, and this (along with the two or three other lithos also up for sale) is probably one of the last lithographs I'll ever make - in part because I really didn't enjoy the process, and due to the fact that the process is *so* toxic, and it makes me sick to think of all the dangerous chemicals I inhaled while making this! But I guess if I have to risk my health for something, it should be art...right?

BETSY The Jointed Teddy Bear

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:33:50 -0400

$20.00
Betsy has tiny jointed arms and is ready to play...

She was hand sculpted from polymer clay, painted, and antiqued with an aged crackle look by the artist. She's ready to sit on your favorite shelf and loves to play catch and run through the sprinklers!

Betsy stands 3" tall, and she is a slender 2" wide.

You will get the exact bear seen in these photos. :)

ROMANTIC NEWS Fine Art Print

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:47:34 -0400

$13.00
I found a woman's home economics scrapbooks from the 1940's, and I based my drawings on outfits she put together in her scrapbook. Her essay (seen in the background) was about the three things she wanted to accomplish that year, and one of them was to have smoother, softer hands... To find out what her other two goals were, purchase the print, and I'll include a xerox of her original hand written essay as an added bonus!

I adapted this essay and some of the text found within the scrapbooks to create this little print, and the original work was made by layering silkscreen prints on top of a monoprint (oil painting on glass transferred to paper) background.

The image measures 5" x 5", printed onto 8" x 10" heavy high-quality, archival matte photo stock (thick and bright white) and will come to you sandwiched between cardboard so that it will stay flat. It was professionally printed in a print shop, and there is a 1.5" white border on each side of the image, a 2" border on top of the image, and a 3" border at the bottom of the image. Signed and shipped flat between cardboard.

Thanks for visiting my shop! :)

SIMONE The French Bunny

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:50:14 -0400

$12.50
Simone loves you!

The text on her little paper heart is from Simone de Beauvoir's autobiography. She was hand sculpted from polymer clay, painted, and antiqued with an aged crackle look by the artist. She's ready to sit upon your favorite shelf and loves to curl up with a good book!

Simone stands 2.5" tall from bunny butt to tip of bunny ear.

You will get one of the bunnies that comprise the bunny army in the last three photos. :)

THE SURFACES OF THINGS Fine Art Print

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:48:36 -0400

$13.00
I found a woman's home economics scrapbooks from the 1940's, and I based my drawing of the woman in this print on a magazine cut out she included in one of her books. This particular cut out was named "Completeness."

The text in the print was from an essay that the woman wrote, and if you decide to purchase the print, I'll include a xerox of her original hand written essay as an added bonus! It's about the woman's three goals for the year and provides a great insight into what life was like in the 1940's.

I adapted this essay and some of the text found within the scrapbooks to create this little print, and the original work was made by layering silkscreen prints on top of a monoprint (oil painting on glass transferred to paper) background.

The image measures 5" x 5", printed onto 8" x 10" heavy high-quality, archival matte photo stock (thick and bright white) and will come to you sandwiched between cardboard so that it will stay flat. It was professionally printed in a print shop, and there is a 1.5" white border on each side of the image, a 2" border on top of the image, and a 3" border at the bottom of the image. Signed by the artist and shipped flat between cardboard.

Thanks for visiting my shop! :)

MADELINE Wears Stockings

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:50:43 -0400

$42.00
Madeline is a little french gal who is just full of love! She holds a tiny paper heart cut from her favorite author's autobiography (Simone de Beauvoir). She loves curling up with a good book, cute puppies, and warm chocolate chip cookies straight from the oven. She is wearing her very best red dress, and she can't wait to find a brand new home!

Madeline stand about 11" tall, a slender 3" wide at her widest point, and 2" thick. She was made from muslin, cut and stitched from my very own pattern. She was then covered with gesso (primer), sketched on and painted (with acrylic paints), and finished with a matte varnish spray for longevity.

Thank you for looking!
For more information about my work, please visit my blog at
http://howtomakeart.blogspot.com

DEVON The Painted Bird

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:29:42 -0400

$8.00
Devon loves to fly!

Devon was hand sculpted from polymer clay, painted, and antiqued with an aged crackle look by the artist. Devon is ready to sit upon your favorite shelf and loves to collect antiques and read Victorian novels!

This little bird stands 2.5" long and 1.5" tall.

You will get the exact bird shown in the photos. :)

STORING AND STARING Original Lithograph

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:09:51 -0400

$22.00
While flipping through some of my collection of loose found photos, I decided to put together a photo album of all of my orphan photos, to tie them together in a collective family of discarded photos. Consisting entirely of photographs of strangers purchased in flea markets and junk shops, this print is a visual representation of my decisions to house all these photos in between the covers of a single album.

"Fastening and Finding" is an original hand drawn and hand printed stone lithograph. It is printed on thin and beautiful Japanese rice paper and measures 10" x 6.5" wide. There are only 8 prints in this small edition, and this is number 6 out of 8. It will ship flat between cardboard, and it's ready to be framed!

ABOUT THE PROCESS:
Lithography is one of the tricker forms of printmaking (and artmaking...) that exists! You have to carry around heavy limestone tablets which you then grain at a special sink using tiny pieces of sand to wear away and smooth out the surface of the stone. Then you draw your image with a grease pencil, and you can work both additively and subtractively - drawing on then carving off your lines - until you get a perfect image. You do several etching processes using acid and water, but I would need my litho handbook to tell you more about those in detail - it gets confusing... Then you cross your fingers and roll your image up with ink, hoping that you etched it correctly and end up seeing your drawing and not some large black blob. The plus side is that a stone lithograph pulled by hand is as rich and nuanced (if not more) as a charcoal drawing, and you can make multiple prints of your drawing from a single stone image.

This print is special because the edition is so small, and this (along with the two or three other lithos also up for sale) is probably one of the last lithographs I'll ever make - in part because I really didn't enjoy the process, and due to the fact that the process is *so* toxic, and it makes me sick to think of all the dangerous chemicals I inhaled while making this! But I guess if I have to risk my health for something, it should be art...right? ;)

CRITICAL GROOMING Fine Art Print

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:30:53 -0400

$13.00
I found a woman's home economics scrapbooks from the 1940's, and I based my drawings of woman's hand on something I read in an essay that she wrote. Her essay was about the three things she wanted to accomplish that year, and one of them was to have smoother, softer hands...

To find out what her other two goals were, purchase the print, and I'll include a xerox of her original hand written essay as an added bonus!

I adapted this essay and some of the text found within the scrapbooks to create this little print, and the original work was made by layering silkscreen prints on top of a monoprint (oil painting on glass transferred to paper) background.

The image measures 5" x 5", printed onto 8" x 10" heavy high-quality, archival matte photo stock (thick and bright white) and will come to you sandwiched between cardboard so that it will stay flat. It was professionally printed in a print shop, and there is a 1.5" white border on each side of the image, a 2" border on top of the image, and a 3" border at the bottom of the image.

Signed and shipped flat between cardboard.

BIRDIE The Littlest Bird

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:41:03 -0400

$10.00
Birdie loves to peep and make lots of noise!

She was hand sculpted from polymer clay and antiqued with an aged crackle look by the artist. She is ready to sit upon your favorite shelf and loves to do jigsaw puzzles and chat on the telephone!

This little bird stands 2.5" long and 1.5" tall.

You will get one of the two birds shown in the photos. Please specify if you'd like the bird on the right or the left in the first photo, or I will choose one for you.

Thanks for looking! :)

DESIGN TO CONCEAL MY BAD POINTS Fine Art Print

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:15:52 -0400

$13.00
I found a woman's home economics scrapbooks from the 1940's, and inside was this little drawing she titled, "Design to Conceal My Bad Points." I adapted this drawing and some of the text found within the scrapbooks to create this little print, and the original work was made by layering silkscreen prints on top of a monoprint background. The original also has a chain stitch decoration that mimics a stitch sample sheet I found within the book.

The image measures 5" x 5", printed onto 8" x 10" heavy matte photo stock (thick and bright white) and will come to you sandwiched between cardboard so that it will stay flat. It was professionally printed in a print shop, and there is a 1.5" white border on each side of the image, a 2" border on top of the image, and a 3" border at the bottom of the image.

Signed and shipped flat between cardboard.

Thanks for visiting my shop! :)