Yeah, Baby! Play that backwoods/bayou folk music! This grasshopper’s playin’ The Crawdad Song. Can’t you hear the sounds of, “You get a line and I’ll get a pole, Honey. You get a line, and I’ll get a pole, Babe. You get a line, and I’ll get a pole. We’ll go down to that Crawdad hole. Honey, Sugar Baby, mine!”? All images on this site are copyrighted by the artist. Thanks.
The tiny sheet music really has the melody, guitar chords, and chorus printed on it, though you’ll need some mighty high-powered magnifying equipment to read it! The guitar has real thread strings, though this hopper got a little too wild, while playing the previous set, so the guitar is missing a string. The body of the guitar is made of cardboard, painted with acrylic paint and trimmed with fabric trimming. The hopper’s body is paper mache over aluminum foil, and painted with metallic acrylic paints. The face and hands are one-of-a-kind, handmade by the artist. (No molds were used.) The legs are wire covered with various pearl and ceramic beads. The antennae are blue wires. The sheer wings are made of overhead projector plastic onto which the artist computer-printed the wing images. The edges of the wings are reinforced with thin, black wire and held onto the body by the blue bow-tie. The wings can be expanded or folder over each other down the back. The hopper’s awesome eyes are acrylic and the teeth are fake pearls. The paper mache legs are attached to the body via a long screw and held in place with silver-tone wing-nuts. She stands on a wooden base painted silver. The dog is my little Chihuahua, Zena. She’s there for perspective. (She also just likes sitting in on Bayou Bug Band jam sessions.)
None of my sculpted figures is truly a “doll” in that they are designed for display only and are made from polymer clay that has been found to be toxic if ingested. Not for use with children.
I seek to create dolls that mimic the old paper mache dolls of the past, so the “skin” will not be perfectly smooth.
You can buy my dolls at my Etsy store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/graceworksstudio If you see a doll on this blog that is not listed in my Etsy store, please email me and I will add it to my Etsy store for your to purchase.
