Another lovely brief all the way from Melbourne this time! This was a present from Nina to her husband Todd on his 40th birthday from which was just a couple of days ago!! The family loves nothing more than an outing on their bikes in […]
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Paper dolls of bands, cats and more
Martha Graham
Back to my heroines of contemporary dance – this time we’re not talking meak flower on the wall of dance history, but tackling the uber influential Martha Graham – we are talking THE mother of modern dance. She believed in the deep meaning of movement […]
More Bowie love – Kansai Yamamoto suit
Our entire home is still living and breathing David Bowie. Space oddity is Rudy’s favourite song to fall asleep too, with a few minor lyric amends (ground control to Major Tongue, you’ve really made the grapes), my daughter will not slumber without Life on […]
Bowie was god
Waking up to news I wish I’d never hear – after all, if anyone was close to godlike, it was David Bowie, the thin white duke, starman, Ziggy… Bowie has been a huge part of my music life, first in the 80s, then discovering all […]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds paper dolls
I made these paper dolls quite a while ago, but always wanted to work up a suitable background for them. Today I went on the hunt for lyrics from some of my favourite songs by the man – as I’m off this weekend to see […]
The Veees – the real wonder women!
The Veees is a brilliant band from Bristol – they are all about femality in power, seduction and cheek. I heart them. Singer Anne was keen to showcase what Wonder Women they truly are – and so I helped a bit with the visualisation bit, and […]
Blondie paper dolls
OK, so I clearly love Blondie, anybody’s got a problem with this ultra iconic, super cool, still enduring amazing combo? Not me. Blondie rules. And so it is only just that they should be represented in paper dolls format. Not that it’s the first time either.
The Specials paper dolls
In the genesis according to Karuski, first came paperdolls. I used to draw a lot as a child/ teenager, but never trained and as other life things took over, the drawing stopped. In fact, it stopped for twenty years. Then motherhood […]
Karuski's little shop of colours 