Vintage Drawer Reliquary Doll

Well, eight months later... and I've finally

finished my mixed media doll: "The Butterfly Boy!"

Emerging from a chrysalis made with mulberry papers, 

dyed netting, glass beads and rusty wire.

My $4 find at the "Art of Recycle" store in Ephrata, PA

has gone from this...

To this... covered with decorative tissue papers

using paper maché, adding a print of a Monarch butterfly, 

and a vintage kitchen soap holder with a dangling chrysalis.

I sculpted a basic chrysalis shape using paper-clay

and then covered it with a photocopied print from

an actual chrysalis, using paper maché paste. 

Final touch: adding additional gold dots and highlights.

It seems to be a universal theme: "Transitions!"

Be blessed... Daryle