More of John Galliano prettiness!!!

Black Eye Suzie Art Dolls

I just love Black Eye Suzie art dolls. They are so expressive and delicate. The one pictured has to be my favorite, with her little parasol and pensive look. She also has a great blog. Some very interesting posts on her actually constructing her dolls. Her doll construction fascinates me. There head, hands and feet are individually sculpted from paperclay (no molds). Some of her earlier bodies were made of fiberfill and cotton fabric over a wire armature. Lately they look like paper clay forms strung together with ball joints. Their faces are hand-painted with water colours, with handmade eyes. Such pretty little elegant creatures.

Neo-Victorian Elegance

Here are a few of my favorite Neo-Victorian Gothic pictures, with a little Steampunk edge.

Steam Hair Do's

Amazing aristocratic steampunk hair!

Steampunk Lady Adventurer

Also a Air Pirate, Explorer or Spy...

Flush

The Anatomy of The Kraken

The Anatomy of The Kraken

Steampunk Aristocracy

Here is another interesting definition of Steampunk according to spiritus-temporis.com ...
"Steampunk is a sub genre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. Fiction in the steampunk genre is set in the past, or a world resembling the past, in which modern technological paradigms occurred earlier in history, but were accomplished via the science already present in that time period. The genre typically falls into the realm of science fiction.

There are two main sub-genres of steampunk: historical steampunk and fantasy steampunk. Historical steampunk tends to be more "science fictional": presenting an alternate history, presenting real locales and persons from history with different technology. Fantasy steampunk, on the other hand, tends to present steampunk in a completely imaginary fantasy realm, often populated by legendary creatures coexisting with steam-era or anachronistic technologies."

The Men of Steampunk

Since I am always posting items for the ladies I thought I would even the playing field. Here are a few of the men of Steampunk.

Victorian Prosthetic Arm

I just saw this and had to share. The craftsmanship of it is really amazing. I would just love to have it laying around my house as a piece of sculpture. Look at the fingers they are so creepy and delicate at the same time. I wish I knew who this was made for . I'm guessing it was for a woman.

Giving Gold for Iron

A huge influence on the things I make is my love of German ironwork jewelry ( can also be called Berlin or French ironwork jewelry). The story goes that in 1806, Napoleon stole iron molds from Germany to take back to France, and demanded that his jewelers start producing iron jewelry. The war had depleted the treasuries of France and of Germany. Both nations asked their wealthy to turn in their gold jewels for iron. Berlin iron was proudly worn by the upper classes as a sign of their patriotism. Later during the War of Liberation, to assist the struggling economy and to finance the uprising against Napoleon, the Prussian royal family urged women to donate their gold jewelry to the State. In return, the donors were given replacement jewelry made of iron, often bearing the inscription Gold gab ich für Eisen …"I gave gold for iron". Such a great story!!!