It is a great honor to be able to host my first online gallery show with all these wonderful Kokeshis! They were done by a variety of people, from professional artists to people who just enjoy creating... and all ages too! While traditional Japanese Kokeshi dolls are made of wood, these have been created in a variety of mediums. I want to thank each artist for participating in my show today! I hope that if you haven't tried to make your own yet, that you will!
I also have had the pleasure of meeting new blog friends through this project and one in particular is Jason from art box diary in Japan who is a collector of Kokeshis and sells them on his etsy site "Kokeshi Love". So please check that out if you'd like to own an original Kokeshi! Some of our Kokeshis are also for sale. Please contact me at bethany.hissong@gmail.com if you are interested in purchasing one.
I also encourage you to leave comments for our artists and visit them on their own blogs!
Enjoy the Show!
By Stacey Hsu
$15 each plus $3 shipping (each, or if purchased together, $3 total for shipping)
"Peek-a-Boo"By Kathleen Colegrove
"Going on a Memory Hunt"
By Ruby (& True) Bratcher
mycakies &
"Little Bear"
By Ruby Bratcher
Made of fabric, felt and embroidery floss
"A Mess of Art"
By True Bratcher, age 2
"Dad"
By Terri Fisher
"Mom"
By Terri Fisher
"Sister"
By Sabastian Fisher, age 10
"Brother"
By Sebastian Fisher, age 10
"Birdie K Doll"
By Amy Cartwright
$45
"Azami" (which means "thistle flower")
By Diane Milne
Made of wool felt and felted wool
Back View
By Diane Milne
Side View
By Diane Milne
"Serenity"
By Scott Sprengel
Made of wood and ink on rice paper
Side View
By Scott Sprengel
Back View
By Scott Sprengel
"Top View"
By Scott Sprengel
Original Print from which image for
Kimono was created
By Scott Sprengel
By Kijsa Housman
Made from wood interior decorating forms
Another View
By Kijsa Housman
By Kijsa Housman
Back View
By Kijsa Housman
"Helene"
By Jojo-Caramel
Made of papers, vintage and recycled materials (all of her dolls)
"Jeanne"
By Jojo-Caramel
"Francois"
By Jojo-Caramel
"Thomas"
By Jojo-Caramel
"Erika"
By Jojo-Caramel
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"Clara Kokeshi"
By Clara, age 8
"Sugar Blossom"
By Karla Nathan
Made with vintage papers, jewels, flowers and ribbons
$15
"Ginger and Jill"
By Chelsea Ann
Made of mixed media
"Ginger"
By Chelsea Ann
"Jill, the Sailer"
By Chelsea Ann
"Poppy" & "First"
By Kellie H
Made of mixed media
By Kari Schriever
By Jane Johnson
"Animals and a snowman"
By Anna Johnson, age 6
"People"
By Anna Johnson, age 6
"My family and Katie the Cat"
By Lauren Johnson, age 9
"Aunt Anne and a snowman"
By Lauren Johnson, age 9
"Aunt Beth, Caroline & Nathaniel"
By Lauren Johnson, age 9
"Nathaniel"
By Nathaniel Hissong, age 10
"Caroline in a Kimono"
by Caroline Hissong, age 11
"Me"
By Bethany Hissong
Side View
(Skirt pattern is from Amy Butler fabric design)
By Bethany Hissong
Back View
By Bethany Hissong
Side View
By Bethany Hissong
~The End~
41 comments:
Awesome job, Bethany! I am amazed at the diversity of the dolls and their artists. Thanks so much for challenging us to create in this unique way and for sponsoring this show! You are the best!
Wow what a lovely show!
I think everyone did such a great job.
A big thank you to you Bethany for coming up with the idea.
Kathy
x
These are all so great! I hope you do it again - I'd love to participate!
Wow Beth - great show! The dolls are all so different. I love your doll - really great! And Caroline and Nathaniel's are great too! All the different shapes are nice to see - skinny Scott, pointed Kari & Kaisji..
Great idea Beth!
Thank you Bethany for this challenge ! It's funny to put them all together ! A great job has been made by everyone ! :)))
Clara said : Thank you Bethany !
Olivia
xxx
Bravo to Nathaniel and Caroline !!!
Caroline wears a lovely Yukata :)))
I love yours and I recognized your smiling eyes :)))
Those are so great. I love the one of yourself. You are very creative. I would love the link to the heart garland if you still have it.
what wonderful creations! Love the diversity of dolls, shapes and artists ages!!! Love this concept, and can't wait to experiment some more! with this art form! Everyone is fabulous!!
blessings,
kari & kijsa
Oh what a wonderful collection. So many different interpretations, lovely to see them altogether like this.
Congratulations on the show, Beth! All of the dolls are amazing. Yours really looks like a 3-D realization of your illustration style. Very cool!!!
-Scott
That was fun!
Becky K.
Great idea Bethany. ALL so great, but my favs were Jojo-caramels and memory hunting by Cakies.
This is wonderful! I loved seeing all the creativity. Yours looks just like you. The kids did a great job with theirs. When did you find the time? Thanks for exposing me to this art. Can't wait to see what you come up with next!!!
WOW! How inspiring! Everyone is so talented--I just love each and every one...and the kids' creations are absolutely wonderful. Thanks for hosting such a fun show.
Quelle créativité ! Je découvre ce qu'est une Kokeshi et je suis sous le charme d'autant d'imagination.
Bravo !
Bravo pour ces magnifiques kokeshis, dont je connais l'existence depuis peu, grâce à Olivia/jojo-caramel.
Bethany... what a wonderful collection! I am so happy I got to be part of this. So many talented people all over the world!!!
And yours... oh my! What a beauty! And the details?! Wow!!!
Well done! I am so impressed by all of the entries. Everyone has done something completly unique and original and they are so lovely!
~Emily
Loved what you and the kids did! In all my years in Japan I found that the seemingly infinite variety on such a simple design always captivated me. Love those cute dolls in the original Japanese use -- but equally loved this creative use of them in a new iteration and expression... so much so that I featured your post in our blog so our many visitors could see them as well. Great Job Bethany!Yoko
They are all so great! My favorite is the felt kokeshi and the little family with the father holding the camera. Thanks for holding the exhibition!
Such fun to see all these awesome dolls! I really am impressed with every single one. I also liked the way everyone choose to photograph the dolls too =) Thank you Bethany for hosting this show and introducing me to Kokeshi dolls. I hope you will continue gallery shows...=)
Beth,
I love the dolls! Everyone did such a great job. What a wonderful idea and a great way to encourage our creativity! You simply must do something like this again.
Those are so great! Wow, it was neat to see all of the different styles! Thanks for doing this, Bethany!
WOW BETHANY!
What a wonderful turn out you got! This is such a fantastic thing that you have organised and seen through to a awesome final showing.
I am glad that I didn't get an entry in now....I would have been put to shame with these great works to stand next to! Congratulations to everyone! Jen
Merci Bethany. J'aime bien ta galerie de Kokeshi, elle est très jolie ! J'aime la poupée de Caroline, celle de Lauren, de Sebastian, la fée de karla, les poupées de Kari, le petit bonhomme de Scott (il est poétique et doux). La tienne parce qu'on dirait un tableau. Enfin, j'aime bien tout parce que c'est trop joli !
J'étais drôlement contente de voir que tu as mis la mienne aussi.
(Merci = Thank you. J'apprends l'anglais à l'école cette année, mais je ne sais pas encore écrire en anglais)
Clara
x
Here is a rough translation of Clara's comment (she is 8 years old, lives in France and is adorable!):
"Thank you Bethany. I like your gallery of Kokeshi well, it is very pretty! I like Caroline's doll, that of Lauren, of Sabastian, the fairy of Karla, the dolls of Kari, the small fellow of Scott (he is poetic and soft). Yours because they would say a picture. Finally, I like everything well because they are too pretty! I was glad to see that you put mine in too.
(Thank you. I will learn English at school this year, but I cannot write yet in English.)"
Here is a translation of Jean-Francois:
"What creativity! I discover what is Kokeshi and I am under the spell of so much imagination.
Bravo!"
Thank You Jean-Francois!!!!
Thierry said:
"Bravo for these magnificent Kokeshis, their existence of which I know lately, thanks to Olivia." (Jojo-Caramel)
Thanks Theirry!!!!
How fun! Each one is amazing in it's own right... Hard to pick a favorite!
Karla & Karrie
Wow Bethany!!! They all look fantastic and your show is great!
Fantastic job on uploading all those photos - phew!!!
xxx
Bethany these are great! I love your self portrait. Everyone did a wonderful job.
wow you did a great job. they all look amazing. wish i did some. i'm glad you had fun on your vacation and are all back saftly.
so much amazing talent!!! i guess my dolls will be sitting in their packages for a while longer. i don't seem to get anything accomplished anymore! LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU! be back later!
These are fantastic! What a range of styles all on the same theme! Thanks again for hosting.
SO stunning!! What a cool thing. I love your idea and I love everything that people came up with!!
I just found your blog through IttyBittyBirdie and really enjoyed seeing all of the dolls. Thank you for putting this together!
Hey Bethany
I have been meaning to say how awesomely awesome your kokeshi is.
We were away last week so I only managed to have a quick peek at this show on a friends computer.
Thanks again for such a fun project, it was an honor to take part in.
Hi Bethany! Nice to meet you :)
I LOVE the dolls, they are so shiny with happy energy! Summer xo, Zaara ^,,^
Oh Wow!! I'd forgotten about your Kokeshi Gallery and then was reminded over at Di's place, where I saw her stunning entry.
These are brilliant, Bethany, you must be so pleased that so many people took part.
And the "self-portrait" by you? What can I say - I've already used up Stunning and Brilliat .... I guess I'll have to settle for Amazing!!
:)
what a great display - every one so different and so great! you are all so talented!
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