{"id":149,"date":"2018-01-03T16:51:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrimmdesign.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2023-05-25T01:09:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T01:09:42","slug":"necromancer-rabbit-ooak-art-doll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alaymanstudios.com\/studio\/necromancer-rabbit-ooak-art-doll\/","title":{"rendered":"Necromancer Rabbit – OOAK Art Doll"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Necromancer Rabbit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They say artist need to express themselves in the emotional times of their lives, wether that be high points or lows ones and this Art Doll was created during probably the lowest emotional time of my life. \u00a0You see my father had just passed away and I was having a difficult time feeling much of anything. \u00a0My Etsy orders still trudged on, but there wasn’t the same feeling of enthusiasm that I had for them. \u00a0Being with family and friends during this time really did help, but when I returned home each night, there was this gloom that seemed to suck the color right out life. \u00a0My father had been a big part of my life and each time I went to start on a new project, there was this dread that I wouldn’t be able to share things with him any longer.<\/p>\n

So without an actual purpose or end goal to this new creation, I just started sculpting. \u00a0I had a lot of white polymer clay, so I figured I would use that. It started out as the ball, then I added blobs of clay and let the shapes start to speak for themselves and before I knew it, a Rabbit was looking at me. \u00a0I suddenly became obsessed with finishing it. \u00a0Hands and feet, texture of the hair. \u00a0I added tinfoil behind the glass eyes because I had seen it in Penny Dreadful and it did bring his eyes to life. \u00a0And then I baked him and placed him in box until I could figure out what exactly he was going to be.<\/p>\n

And there he sat in the box, waiting patiently for me to find that spark once again to finish him between the orders that kept trickling in from Etsy. \u00a0Easter came and went; it had given be an idea of a parody of the Easter Bunny. \u00a0A Necromancer to be exact. \u00a0Also there had been a wish for my father return, so there was a lot of emotional subplot going on there. \u00a0So on no particular day, I created his wire body and started filling him out. \u00a0I dyed the cheese cloth for his clothing and found a beaded set of old broken flip flops that would do as armor. \u00a0I applied the lessons that I had learned from the other Art Dolls I had created and built upon them, until at last he was finished.<\/p>\n

In December 2017 someone took an extra liking to him and their friend purchased it through Etsy as a Christmas gift. \u00a0I cried as I drove the package to the post office and yet I was ecstatic that someone would look at this art doll every day and cherish it.<\/p>\n