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Guignon
Designs
Fine Art and
Unique Gifts
Dolls
Wild Woman
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Portrait
of the artist as a wild woman doll.
Photo
by: J. R. Compton
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| Dressing up as one
of her Wild Women, the artist plays Baba Yaga in a reading
of an old Russian fairy tale. Here seen seated with crone
Jo Wharton. At the Maiden, Mother, Crone Goddess retreat in
Frisco, TX spring of 2001. |
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Changeling: Wolf Woman
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Shell Goddess
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Dolls by the Artist Valery
Guignon
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Story Teller
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Searching for the Lost One
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Designer Valery Guignon
has been teaching Wild Woman Doll Making Classes for three years in
her home town of Dallas. Inspired by Clarissa Pinkola Estes best
selling book, Women who Run With The Wolves, Valery began making
dolls of her inner wild side in her design studio. They sold
well but she wanted to offer the opportunity to other women to manifest
their own inner wild woman.
Doll Making Classes
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Each doll is unique to
the student. Using as much recycled or used materials as possible
the artist is encouraged to find her less than "perfect" self
and make her shine. We start with wire and twist it into an armature. This
is flexible and can be shaped into any position. Then we "flesh her
out", wrapping fabrics to fill her form to the fullness we envision.
The students dress their dolls in fabrics of their choosing and embellish
them with objects that have meaning to each of them. I show each
student how to make faces and hands out of Sculpy, a polymer clay product,
and we bake them in an oven. The faces can be painted and hair
applied to the head.
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These dolls come to symbolize
the parts of ourselves we cherish, our inner sides, our intuitive selves. They
have not been civilized and are still a bit dangerous yet protective
of our freedom in the world. Students have made them fly, stand,
sit or kneel. Male students have thoroughly enjoyed the experience
as well. Each student goes home with a doll.
Please e-mail me for further information
on cost of classes and availability of time. I'd love to
hear from other doll makers and teachers.
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