VanDolls Folk Art

I have finally finished working on my Halloween light up candy buckets! Whew that took me a while. I absolutely love the vintage look and feel of these buckets. They are also an absolute joy to have hanging around my studio.

I have been working late into the evening trying to get these pumpkin buckets finished. My hands the couch my pants and my feet are absolutely covered in paper clay and paint. Creating  is absolutely my most favorite thing to do. When it comes to creating Halloween is at the top of my list! This week I am contuing my make it bigger theme, I have decided that I should make my candy buckets much larger than I have in the past. These pumpkins  are going to be 12” , normally I make them somewhere areound the 7” mark but this time I figured go big or go home right?

Making the best of the day, getting my new Catarina figures finished and ready for their debut tomorrow evening. These dolls have taken quite a while to get made up. I have been wanting to create them for quite some time now I just haven’t had the courage to make them, mostly due to their size. I have always primarily worked on smaller projects with the exception of my Halloween candy pails. However; now that these ladies are finished I have definitely fallen in love with them. I wantedto give these ladies a touch of spookiness by incorporating the exposed bone chest and keep with the day of the dead theme by adding the hand sculpted floral touches. #Halloweenfolkart #folkartist #Jackolantern #everydayishalloween