Lilly Steampunk Soul Raven

Lilly is 12" tall x 5" x 2 1/2". She is hand sculpted from epoxy over an armature. Then hand painted in layers, and sealed with a matte finish. The bottom of her does open. She has a vintage watch piece for her right eye. On her chest is a watch piece with a tiny raven. The rim of her hat is a faux watch piece. Her hair is hand dyed (by me) black mohair. Available in my etsy shop! http://www.etsy.com/listing/94123437/steampunk-souls-mixed-media-ooak-art

New Pendants in my Etsy Shop!

Cheaper than diamonds for Valentines day! Available in my etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/michelelynchart?section_id=5752905
Back to work I go...Happy Monday! xo Michele

Something Different in Soul Sucker Land!

A mermaid!

Meet Neith, Egyptian name meaning water. Neith is one a the few steampunk mermaids left in the kingdom of creativity. She hides in the underground water systems, sad that she can't visit the ocean. But she knows the Evil Soul Sucker sends out ships with huge nets trying to find her kind, he already captured her papa.

Neith is hand sculpted from epoxy over an armature. She measures 15" tall by 11" wide by 2" deep. Her arms are wire at the top so she is pose-able. She's bigger than most of my dolls so that she will make an impression on the wall. Her left eye is grey glass. Her right eye is a beautiful vintage watch piece. All over her tail I embedded found items that have to do with the sea. Her sleeves are hand dyed fabric made to look like seaweed, there are also a few pieces in her hair. I hand painted her in layers and sealed her with a matte finish.

Available in my etsy shop! http://www.etsy.com/listing/92160220/steampunk-souls-mixed-media-ooak-art http://www.etsy.com/listing/92160220/steampunk-souls-mixed-media-ooak-art
Happy Friday everyone!! xo Michele

Samantha Tree Topper

Meet Samantha. Samantha liked the Christmas Pageants the the way they used to be, before the Evil Soul Sucker came to town...

Samantha was fun to create as a tree topper! She's big! 16" tall and 5 x 5 wide and deep! She has a vintage poinsettia pin on her head and a vintage reindeer pin in her arms. She's available in my etsy shop:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/86914780/steampunk-souls-art-doll-mixed-media Have a great Turkey day tomorrow for all of you in the US, enjoy eating way too much, and for those of you brave enough to do the black friday thing it actually starts even earlier for you this year!! Good luck with hunting down the bargins!! xo Michele

New Work-Zoey half bunny half steampunk soul

Meet Zoey, half bunny, half steampunk soul. Zoey never wanted to be a pirate, but it's what her family did. That is until the Evil Soul Sucker invaded. Her brother snuck her off the ship late one night, firmly planting the helmet on her head and the gun in her waistband. Zoey hasn't seen her family since. She's joining the rebellion in hopes to see the pirate ship again, she hates to admit it but she misses it.

Zoey is 14" tall x 4" wide x 2 1/2" deep. She is hand sculpted from paper clay over an armature. Her arms and legs are slightly poseable. The parts of her that are bunny are white flocking. She is hand painted in layers, then sealed with a matte finish. She has a watch part for her right eye, and a vintage enameled watch face on her chest. Her clothes are hand stitched and not removable. Her helmet is made of a vintage watch tin, wind up part of a watch, a found chain, and is not removable. The steampunk gun is removable. She is titled, signed and dated.

and yup you guessed it, she's available in my etsy shop! http://www.etsy.com/listing/79904333/gothic-art-doll-steampunk-souls-bunny 

I started off trying to make a smaller doll that would be more affordable in our current times, but even though she's a wee bit smaller she took me every bit of 3 full days to complete. I did lower her price a bit from the other dolls to help buyers out for now. I think she's one of my favorites so far ;o) I don't know if I got the obsession from the Alice doll I did, or I saw these cute bunny paintings on etsy by

brienna

remove or if it was the dolls on the cover of Art Doll Quarterly last month by Sheri DeBow, whatever it was I was obsessed with making a bunny girl and she wouldn't rest until she was made! 

Of course originally I had her sketched out in more of an armor type of outfit, and she just wasn't having it, she's a victorian lady...er...bunny pirate all the way ;o) Hope everyone is having a great week! (someone asked me about the ornaments, in the other post, if you see one you like just email me at michelel@michelelynchart.com and I can send you a paypal invoice or answer any questions you have. The two grim reapers are sold.) xo Michele

Another New Piece Celest

Okay this is exactly how I've been feeling lately! Meet Celest...she used to fly over the creative kingdom warning the other steampunk souls of what the Evil Soul Sucker was really up to. That is until the Soul Sucker caught her. He made sure she couldn't tell another soul by surgically zipping her mouth closed, then he broke her halo. Edna and her band of rebels rescued Celest, but not before it was sadly too late. Celest cries tears of blood over not being able to sing her song of warning.

She's completely hand sculpted, out of paper clay, over an armature. She is 10 1/2" tall, by 3" wide, by 3" deep. She has a vintage watch part for her left eye and one on her chest. Her wings are made of a vintage belt buckle. Her neck was some kind of vintage wooden spool or bobbin? One top of her head is a small clear knob (I think it's acrylic but I'm not sure) and her broken halo is from a vintage clock. I painted her in layers, then sealed her with a matte finish.

I've just added her to my etsy shop :o) http://www.etsy.com/listing/66357121/steampunk-souls-paper-mache-art-doll I was able to work on a few more pieces, both skellies for STJ's update that's coming up soon too! Stay tuned for those pics! Have a great night everyone! xo Michele

Happy Mother's Day & Charlie

Happy Mother's day to all you moms out there! I hope your day is filled with special people, sunshine and love!

It's been a while since I blogged! I was super busy with the National Halloween Convention artwork, which is going on this weekend by the way! Lots of really cool artwork there with Spooky Time Jingles!! Then I got sick with some kind of upper respiratory nastiness! I'm finally starting to feel a bit better! In the meantime I created Charlie, another evil steampunk soul sucker medic. I'm loving creating these guys! He's a bit bigger than normal 14 1/2" tall by 4 x 4" Lots of creepy steampunk goodness! He's available in my etsy shop today :o) Just click the word etsy and it will take you there :o) I'm working on some steampunk souls for the next Spooky Time Jingles update on the 13th!

Hope everyone has been doing well! I've missed all my blogger friends!! xo Michele

Steampunk Sarah Is Featured On Art Dolls Only Blog!

Awhile back I entered the Steampunk Quarterly challenge on Art Dolls Only blog, and was so excited yesterday to learn that Sarah would be featured on their blog! You can visit Art Dolls Only blog here-http://artdollsonly.blogspot.com Thank you for featuring Sarah :o) I'm honored!

Yesterday I got a couple more things all sculpted out but I was so tired I just couldn't keep going. I just felt drained, both mentally and physically. That usually doesn't happen to me, I'm a workaholic as most of you that follow this blog know. Not sure what it was? But I finally stopped fighting it and just took the rest of the night off ;o) I've got a lot of things going right now that I'm excited about but maybe all that planning and designing just drained me. Hopefully I'll have a few things to show you in the coming days. There's a skelly bust coming up for ebay, plus some others for ebay, a few veggie people that I'm doing for a shop, I'm also working on pieces for the National Halloween Convention :o)

Hope everyone is having a wonderful week! More snow is on the way for us today and tonight. If I never see another snowflake at this point I would be happy! Remember Sam?

That's how I'm feeling LOL! Sam the skelly snowman is making his way over to Ebay tonight at 8 pm central time :o) Also Ghost Girl ends on there tonight ;o) xo Michele

Gotcha!

Gotcha! This piece was inspired by how quickly time can sneak up on you! Remember that birthday of mine? LOL. I actually had him all sculpted before that, but didn't have him painted yet. It's taken me a while to get back into the groove of things this week!

Gotcha the grim reaper hangs on the wall. There is a hook already in his back for easy hanging. He is 8 1/2" tall x 3"wide x 2 1/2" deep. He has a vintage watch piece for his eye, screws in his jaw (reminds me of the snake bite piercings!) a gear that acts as the button to hold his robe together, and a vintage watch face, entire watch piece with it's tiny rubies intact, and a spinner. He is entirely hand sculpted out of paper clay over an armature. His hands are epoxy,  He is hand painted and sealed. The title, date and my signature are on the back. He's available in my ETSY SHOP :o)

Hope everyone has a great Mardi Gras weekend! Can't decide if we're going to venture to downtown St. Louis or not tomorrow, it's a wild time for sure! Whatever you decide to do have a creative, fun, fantastic one! xo Michele

Until Death...Grim Reaper Couple

Meet Mr. and Mrs. Grim Reaper! I think they would be a really unique wedding cake topper! He is just shy of 5" tall and she is 4" tall. They are available in my etsy shop :o)

I survived the birthday weekend, but just barely! Had waaaay to much fun Saturday night and paid for it on Sunday! and of course I swore I would never do that again...until next time. lol. We went out to eat Sunday night for our birthdays at a Sushi restaurant here by our house and had a great time, sampling off of each others plates! Monday I gave my youngest a hall pass from school for his birthday and we spent the day together. He had that birthday money burning a hole in his pocket so of course we had to go to Game Stop and get the latest and greatest for the Xbox ;o) We had a really nice day together, I love spending time with my boys :o) Hope everyone has had a great weekend and start to their week! It's time for me to get back to reality and that means the little characters on my work table, and laundry! xo Michele

Emily-Wall Hanging Steampunk Soul and Website HELL!

Okay first off let me intro Emily and then I'll tell you about my personal website HELL experience ;o)

Meet Emily, she’s a bit taller and older than the other Steampunk Souls so they all tend to look up to her. She really doesn’t want all the responsibility. Emily longs for the days she could read books, write in her journal and play with her dolls.

She’s 12″ tall x 3 wide x 2″ deep and hangs on the wall. Her eye is a vintage watch piece, her arm a vintage skeleton key and watch gear, On her chest is a vintage Swiss watch movement. Her foot is a sewing machine part.  The little button on her collar is the wind up mechanism of a vintage pocket watch. Her hat is made up of an old watch part tin, and a light bulb. She’s available in my etsy shop

Warning, this is where my rant starts! 
Now, lemme tell you about hell...it's not a great place to be and for me it starts with....let me just re do my website because it's so outdated...I'm sure some of you saw me post that naive little sentence...so I go to the place that hosts my site and I see wordpress! Great! I think to myself, this should be fairly easy. Riiiiight!! I am not a techie person, I know enough html to make me very dangerous! So I build the pages okay, it's slow moving and each tiny thing can take me an hour to do! The pages are kinda bland and boring but that's okay at least I can edit them and maybe someday I'll learn some fancy stuff. So then I come to the blog, and obviously wordpress is actually a blog building program. So I begin checking into everything and find this plugin that will import my blogger blog. Well silly me thinks this means everything (does anyone else ever expect alot and get let down all the time?? sheesh!)! First it takes me HOURS and I mean hours to get this plugin to work and I jump out of my chair screaming I DID IT!! WOOO HOOO! Only then I'm looking at it and I HATE IT! I can no longer see your beautiful faces! I don't have my favorite blogs, I can't see what you've posted, the list goes on and on! So now I don't sleep on Monday night. I've spent all day working on the website and that means a good 12+ hours (LOL I know you can't tell from the site!) and I don't feel like I've done the right thing :o( I write to Ginny. I write to Luthien. Someone HELP lol...no one knows wordpress :o( I forgot to mention when I did the plugin to import blogger to wordpress you have to use a standard template and it wiped out my old template and everything I had built here on this blog. Yeah I was having an OH S%$# moment again. So I think all day yesterday (tues) I can do this I can make it work. Then I get a comment on my blog! YEAH!! I think it's one of you...NO, it's a comment from escort call girl milano I SWEAR to you, that's what it says!! Okay well fine, even call girls need to look at art, right? Then today I get a comment from some guy wanting me to buy his steroids..THAT'S IT! I'm done! I came back over to blogger and by some miracle don't ask me how because I really don't know I restored my blog!! I was clicking this and that and figuring I had nothing left to loose at that point and all of a sudden there it was!! The only thing I had lost was a few of the text colors!! WOOOO HOOO! I then spent hours and hours trying to redirect my website blog page to blogger, which from what I understand they strip the code, but that's working now too as far as I know :o)) So WOOO HOOO I think I've clawed my way out of hell!! It only took me three days LOL! So if any of you would like to take a look at the website and you have any suggestions I would love to hear them :o) I'm keeping my blogger blog :o) I just like it to much :o) www.michelelynchart.com   I'm going to try to catch up on all of your posts that I missed the last several days!
End of my rant!
xo Michele

More Halloween

Okay so this weekend I did everything and anything to avoid that website. Sigh. Which is why it's so outdated! But I do have 3 new pieces that I will be adding to etsy shop today ;o) and another one that's still drying that's a wall hanging. I was still in Halloween mode as you can see lol. Hope everyone else had a productive or fun weekend! xo Michele

Halloween Art

I know it's not Halloween, but I seem to be in that mood all the time! Meet Freddy, the pumpkin man. He got that name because I thought he looked like Freddy Krouger from Nightmare on Elm Street while I was sculpting him. lol. He has a found earring for his leaves, 15 jewel watch piece for his eye and an vintage enameled watch face on his tummy. He is available in my Etsy shop click here to visit my etsy shop

Time Keeper Grim Reaper ( I love that it rhyms LOL how corney is that?!) may be taken, I'm not sure yet. He is even more detailed than the Times Up Grim Reaper. Lots and lots of vintage watch parts on his robe and for his eye. I loved adding the zipper detail and will be adding more of that in the future :o) His scythe is removable and is a vintage skeleton key, vintage pocket watch piece and epoxy. He's sculpted over a wire and epoxy armature. His hands are epoxy, the rest is paper clay.

Hope everyone is enjoying the nice weather for a change, just seeing the sunshine makes my heart happy! Have a great weekend everyone! I plan on trying to update my website. Lord help me. If you see a computer flying past you, pay no attention, I just chucked it through the window ;o) xo Michele

Prints!!

Wooo Hooo! I'm so happy to say that I'm now offering prints of the Steampunk Dolls in my Etsy Store Click Here ! I bought an awesome Epson R1900 printer, a while back and have put off making the prints. I'm not a techie kinda person so for me this was hell lol. But I have 7 of them done now--YIPEE!! Now at some point I need to tackle my very outdated website...

I also want to thank everyone who stopped by Spooky Time Jingles! My first month there has a been an awesome experience! THANK YOU!!

Have a great night everyone! xo Michele

Sam the Steampunk Snowman Spooky Time Jingles Update!

Meet Sam the Steampunk Snowman (say that 10 times fast!)  is not a sweet snowman, in fact he's kinda creepy! Sam looks how I feel about the snow right now! I am sooo done with it! Sam is 8" tall and his is exclusive to Spooky Time Jingels! Along with Harvy the bunny boy :o) Tonight at midnight, Spooky Time Jingles also launches their Easter hootenanny!

If you have never been to the site before, there are a ton of very talented artists on there, come check it out!
www.spookytimejingles.com I've also added a link in my side bar with the STJ logo :o)

Hope everyone is enjoying a little warmer weather, I can finally see part of my sidewalk! LOL who ever thought I'd be excited about that?? xo Michele

Times Up Skelly Grim Reaper

Time's Up Grim Reaper :o) He's 8 1/2" tall, sporting lots and lots of steampunk parts inside his robe. He scythe is made up of a vintage skeleton key and vintage watch part. He's available in my Etsy shop. 

I also finished those pendants. I have a h&%$ of a time with them! First off I sealed them with a gloss and now I'm not sure I like the gloss as much. Then I couldn't get the photographed to save my soul from the Grim Reaper up there! Here they are though:

I know they are kinda hard to see, the details are so tiny. But I'm over taking any more pics tonight LOL! I'm going to put them in my etsy shop also :o)

Oh and one more thing! I was checking my blog stats and noticed a large amount of traffic coming from this site, so I clicked it and imagine my surprise that there was a nice article about my dolls! Thank you Brian Rowe from The Steampunk Workshop! Here's the link if you would like to see it:
http://steampunkworkshop.com/michele-lynch-art-mixed-media
It made my day yesterday!! Have a great night everyone! xo Michele

The Gatekeeper Steampunk Souls Royal Gaurd

Meet the Gatekeeper! The Gatekeeper is part of the Steampunks Souls Royal guard, or was before the evil Soul Sucker took over the castle. He's very sad he let the princess down and couldn't protect her, even if he was outnumbered. If it's the last thing he does he'll help the rebellion rescue the princess from the tower. He only hopes they will be in time.

I think he's one of my favorites! My oldest son saw him while I was still sculpting him and said, he should be a knight! Great idea! So I added the knight's helmet to him. Then my youngest son came in while I was painting him and said, you should call him the Gatekeeper. Another great idea! I love my boys!! He's 7" tall and available in my Etsy shop :o)  Have a great weekend everyone! xo Michele

Maggie the steampunk witch

First witch of 2011!! Meet Maggie! Little Maggie wants to grow up and be just like her Momma, casting spells for her Uncle Soul Sucker. She can't wait until she's old enough to work for the corporation! But for now she is happy to play in the halls of the castle with her blocks. This block with the W for witch is her favorite!

Maggie is 8 1/4 inches tall to the tip of her hat. I added scrapbook paper for her dress again. Not sure if it's worth the hassel lol, Several more steps involved that way. Lemme know what you guys think! I'm listing her on Ebay tonight at 8 pm central time.

I'm fighting off some kind of nasty cold, it's winning though :oP Good news is the SUN is shinning!! Hurray!! xo Michele

Meet Clair from the Steampunk Orphanage

Meet Clair, She lives at the Steampunk Souls orphanage. She wants parents so badly, but no one seems to want her. Today is parents day again, where parents will come through and meet the children. Clair has a plan. She has ripped out her steampunk heart and is going to offer it to the first set of parents through the door. Won't you adopt Clair? She promises to be a good girl!

Clair is 4 1/2" tall :o) and available in my Etsy shop today.

Oh remember that 6" I said we were gonna get?? Well it became 9, and then it snowed another 2-3 on top of that!! Here's a pic of what the patio table looks like! Sorry the picture is so dark, I couldn't get the back door open with the screen door that swings out!

Crazy right?? and then it's suppose to snow another 1-2" tomorrow night, and another 1-2" on Sunday into Monday!! These are the days I'm so thankful I don't have to risk the roads to go open a store anymore!! Everyone stay warm and dry!! xo Michele