Mixed-Media Dollhouses: Techniques and Ideas for Doll-size Assemblages

Tally Oliveau, Julie Molina

Quarry Books, Jan 9, 2011 - Crafts & Hobbies - 128 pages

This book takes the artistic approach of assemblage and collage, and combines it with the long-loved tradition of making doll houses--but these doll houses are anything but traditional! Begun as an artistic challenge between a group of talented friends, these mixed-media doll houses include beautiful castles, undersea fantasy-lands, gothic attics, inspiring tree houses and much more. Authors Tally Oliveau and Julie Molina share a host of interesting alteration techniques while showing readers how to construct beautiful, fantasy doll houses. Readers learn to how to construct or repurpose found boxes into rooms and houses, how to decorate interior surfaces, how to build miniature furnishings, how to make their own paper dolls, and how to embellish their houses using a variety of imaginative materials.

Contents

• Introduction: 8
• 1 On Your Mark Get Set Play: 11
• 2 Cut It Out: 23
• 3 The First Layers: 37
• 4 Getting Attached: 51
• 5 Paper Dolls and Beyond: 67
• 6 Fully Furnished: 81
• 7 Embellishments: 93
• 8 Thinking Outside the Box: 105
• 9 The Gallery: 112
• Appendix: 120
• Resources: 126
• Contributors: 127
• About the Authors: 128

About the author

Tally Oliveau is a collage and mixed media artist and has been widely published in Somerset Studio, Belle Amoire, Somerset Memories, and Somerset Home. Tally is the president of Papier Studio, a greeting card company. Her artistic cards are sold in stores all over the country. She lives and teaches in Los Angeles, CA.

Julie Molina is a collage and mixed media artist. She has been published in several of Stampington’s publications including Somerset Studios Magazine and her work is included in 1000 Artist Journal Pages by Dawn DeVries Sokol. Julie lives in Los Angeles, CA.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mixed-Media Dollhouses: Techniques and Ideas for Doll-size Assemblages
• Authors: Tally Oliveau, Julie Molina
• Publisher: Quarry Books, 2011
• ISBN: 161673857X, 9781616738570
• Length: 128 pages
• Subjects: Crafts & Hobbies / General; Crafts & Hobbies / Models