Friday, November 21, 2014

Fairy Haven on Display

Fairy Haven is on Display in the Fairy Garden at M. L. King Jr. Preschool in south Phoenix, AZ

Fairies of Fairy Haven - I do believe in Fairies

Even though I haven't been posting for a couple of years I have been painting and crafting, I've been really into the fairy craze crafting OOAK Fairy dolls, a Fairy Oak Tree to house them and painting pictures of fairies. Here are drawings of some of the handmade fairy dolls I've made. I will post all the dolls and paintings here soon.

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Oak Tree at Fairy Haven

Oak Tree House

“Quiet and you might hear!” “Elee ansana oogolo billii”, sounds just like chimes tinkling in the wind. If the words could be seen they would be in rainbow colored wisps of air that whisper “Hello, don’t be frightened please. Followed by “Won sanasaa hulu hah” (“I come to warn you, Earth is overburdened, and she is dying.”) But few can hear these little sprites,

Fairies are blessed with the gifts of creativity, color, music, dance, prose, and magic. They bloomed just as Chaos began stirring the Cosmos. When Gaia blossomed, all brown, soft, and glittery, smelling like cocoa butter, her twin brothers Cosmos and Chaos knew she had very special gifts and would someday need them all.

Gaia lives on a tiny hillside on Unicorn Isle in an enchanted Oak Tree near the gardens of Hyacinth the florist, a flower fairy.
Hopefully my Fairies will warm your heart and connect you to the magic of creativity. Share it with your child, grandchild, or the kindergartener down the street and make some magic of your own.

Oak Tree at Fairy Haven. a OOAK hand made mixed-media doll house for my fairies (hand modeled and painted clay over cardboard)

The Mermaid Pool at Oak Tree Haven

A Fairy Tale:: As Told by Fable

Unicorn Isle

When Earth began to struggle under the strain of slow destruction Gaia’s Fairy children were the first affected. Fairies had flourished on Earth for a billion years before the Cosmos brought man, we lived lifetimes of thousands of years, but in this millennia we fairies began gasping for air and choking from all the debris that was polluting Earth’s lands and seas. It was when earth began browning that
Gaia cried to the Sun that their children, the Fairies, needed to be protected. Her sadness and tears washed away some of Earths pollution but a single rain was no longer enough to freshen the Earth. Sun nodded, as Earth with her beauty was his favored among the planets also, and then Sun smiled rolling away clouds, the sun shone again upon Earth, and a great Rainbow appeared in the sky. With this the sun decreed “Our children lost or suffering in a sick world can always find sanctuary at the end of a rainbow, with this one condition, They must foremost be true of heart and guided by purposeful acts to promote good will and understanding. They may then wait for a rain of the kind that is smiled upon by Sun, and when presenting at the end of its rainbow deliver this good Incantation":

The Sun tucked his rolled papyri with the enchantment upon it into the rainbow’s ends saying “These words will provide direction and strength to ride the bow of color to you Gaia who will hear and light the way to enchanted lands where fairies will forever find a haven.” Thusly he gifted to her and fairies for all time, Unicorn Isle, which floats between Space and Time.

Unicorn Isle, decreed the secret Haven for fairies for all millennia is an incredibly diverse community filled with fantastical beings, tattooed magical creatures, and fairies of all kinds dressed in make-shift clothing gleaned from natures resources. Most are hidden from the world humans know. They fall asleep at night, tucked one and all into their makeshift beds, pods, leaves, and seedbeds slung from flower stalks, and of course flowers. Fairies are giving creatures who dream of creating wonderful and beautiful things. They share their Isles bounties with earth when people are tucked into their beds at night. they tiptoe out of fairyland, small possessions wrapped in petals or other found objects, bringing extra seeds to meadows, forests, waters, and mountainsides burying them with the magic in their fingers. In time, the earth is graced again with flowers, trees, grasses and fruit. Unicorn isle is a place of dreams, goodnight kisses and sweet whispers, “A most wonderful, mystical, magical, place.”

My First Fairies

Luna: My First Fairy

Sculpted of metallic silver polymer clay about 12 to 14 years ago (1999 or 2000). I do apologize, the pictures are so poor, but at the time I had no knowledge of and gave no attention to image quality and I am just grateful to have found these pictures of her on an old hard drive.

She was lumpy, bumpy, anatomically disproportioned, and her facial features were, to say the least, homely. Her hair and wings were from white feathers. Her dress was made of a white satin slipper, she held a large round white pearlescent bead in her hand to represent the moon, and sported rhinestones for eyes. I suspended her from silver thread so she looked as if she were flying. I have no idea what happened to her. I regret not saving her and am grateful to have discovered even these poor photographs. I continue to hope I will locate her eventually in some old boxes or at least run across some better pictures someday.

I believe in Fairies…I do….I do believe in Fairies.~ Peter Pan

I started making fairy figurines about 12 years ago. After Luna, the moon fairy, my second fairy sculpted approximately 6 years ago was Verda an artsy garden fairy, she was created from glue sticks and fabric to be a model for a painting that was forming in my head.
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Verda: a tree fairy

09/29/2013 by Artsynesse

About 7 years ago I attempted a second fairy figurine. I had this image in my head that I was trying to flesh out and paint. Verda was formed of paper mache and glue sticks, she was painted green with acrylic then hot glue sticks were dripped over the paint to create tree texture. Silk leaves were her palette and fairy wings and an artificial plant stamen was the paintbrush. In my original concept she wore an acorn beanie and a sheer pinafore.

The Artist

Since that time I have created approximately a dozen more fairies, a tree house habitat for them, and am developing a fairytale with my fairies as the characters. I have always loved dolls and reading. People who know me say I’ll read anything, but some of my favorite genres are fantasies, fables, myths, and magic. Making fairy figures brings all my artistic interests together, painting, sculpting, fashion, sewing, doll collecting, reading and writing, I’ve even taken jewelry making and pottery classes in art school and plan to incorporate those skills once I’m comfortable with the quality of my dolls.

Billie Carter

Painter /Doll Artist

Avondale, AZ 85392

www.billiesdesignsstudio.blogspot.com

artsynesse@gmail.com

EDUCATION:

2004-2007 Tempe, Arizona;

Bachelor of Fine Arts:

Painting Major, with honors

Herberger School of Fine Art:

Arizona State University

SKILLS