Robots, Cupcakes, Lobsters & Ninjas

It's always entertaining when I get asked to do several different ideas in one set of Matryoshka, so this set was really fun to put together.

You can see more of my Matryoshka here.

Rupaul's Drag Race Matryoshka

This was a really fun custom order for someone who loves Rupaul's Drag Race. I based these particular dolls on Rupaul, Bebe Zahara Benet, Tammie Brown, Nina Flowers and Jujubee.

Chris Simpsons Artist Matryoshka

A few weeks ago I was contacted by Chris (Simpsons Artist) to paint a set of Russian Dolls featuring his artwork on them. I had to say yes! I'm a big fan of Chris, he has a fantastic sense of humor and his illustrations and captions never fail to make me laugh.

I chose to paint Chris's version of Michael Jackson & Bubbles, The Queen, Salvador Dali, Wookie and Homer. It's been a fun challenge to paint in the style of another artist and I'm really happy with how these turned out. Of course I had to add in some bright colours to PonyChopsise the dolls a little.

You can see the work in progress for these dolls here.

PonyChops and TeeToo's Adventure Time Extravaganza!

You have no idea how excited I am to bring you this giveaway today! I don't often get time or the opportunity to do giveaways including my own work (my Russian Dolls take seriously forever to paint!). A few months ago, me and Andrea from TeeToo decided we needed to turn our love of Adventure Time into a giveaway for our readers.

Andrea is giving away a hand made Lumpy Space Princess pillow (like this one she blogged about) and I'll be giving away my set of hand painted Adventure Time Russian Dolls to one lucky winner!

Here's some work in progress and final piccies of the prizes, you can enter below :)

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Mermaids and Corgis

Mermaids seem to be a really popular Russian Doll design, and I love finding out the different features people want on their mermaid dolls.

This set are for a lovely lady who's getting married, I always feel so honored when my work gets to be part of someones wedding! She wanted the dolls to resemble her, and to have her little corgi puppy by her side.

I love how these turned out, the addition of the corgi was my fav part of course.

If you'd like your own customised Russian Dolls you can buy some here. Or email me at ponychopsshop [at] gmail [dot] com

Check out my other mermaid Russian Dolls.

More Adventure Time themed pictures!

Remember my Adventure Time Russian Dolls & Converse? I found some pictures that I took of them together before the converse got sent off to their new home.

I wish I could do matching shoes & Russian Dolls more often.

If you'd like your own custom Shoes or Russian Dolls check out my Etsy Shop
or email me at ponychopsshop @ gmail . com

All of the characters here are copyright of © Cartoon Network. This is just my own fan art & I am not associated with Adventure Time or Cartoon Network in any way.

Warthog Russian Dolls!

I got a really fun custom order a couple of weeks ago from a family who love Warthogs! They wanted the family painted as warthogs.
I love getting imaginative orders like this! Especially when it means so much to the people receiving them. The Mum & Dad of this family like to call the kids "their little warthogs" - I think that is so sweet!

If you want your own set of custom Russian Dolls, check out my Etsy Shop or email me at ponychopsshop @ gmail . com

Check out more of my Russian Doll designs here.

Adventure Time Russian Dolls!

Remember my Work In Progress photos from a couple of weeks ago? Well, I've finally finished the Adventure Time Matryoshka and got around to photographing them. Unfortunately Tofu wasn't around to "help out" this time.

These have been my all time favorite thing to paint so far!! I could stare at the Ice King's worried and handsome face all day long.

These Russian Dolls won't be up for grabs for a few months yet, sorry! They're going to be a prize for an exciting giveaway I have planned in August.

If you'd like your own set of customised Russian Dolls check out my Etsy Shop. Don't forget to enter the code "PCBLOG15" at the checkout to get 15% off for being a PonyChops the Blog reader! If you don't have an Etsy account you can contact me about orders at: ponychopsshop@gmail.com

All of the characters here are copyright of © Cartoon Network. This is just my own fan art & I am not associated with Adventure Time or Cartoon Network in any way.

Desk of the day 18/5/13

I love seeing other artists and crafter's work in progress shots, and I'm always posting mine on instagram, but sometimes I wish I could take more time to take proper photos of what I'm working on. So, inspired by Cart Before the Horse who take the most wonderful work in progress photos, I've decided to start posting some better quality photos of the things I'm currently working on.

This isn't technically desk of the day, because it's yesterdays desk. I've been working on these Adventure time dolls for a while now, today they're finally ready for me to add the details and varnish them!

As you can see, the matryoshka photo shoot soon turned into a Tofu photo shoot. He's such an attention seeker!

All of the characters here are copyright of © Cartoon Network (except for Tofu, he is a real life cat!). This is just my own fan art & I am not associated with Adventure Time or Cartoon Network in any way.

Mermaids & Goldfish Russian Dolls

This is a custom order I finished last week of some mermaid Russian Dolls. They're based on my original Mermaid Matryoshka but personalised to look like the customer - as a present for her penpal. The customer wanted open eyes instead of my usual closed eyed dolls - I think the new open eyed look is super cute, I also love the brunette hair colour too. She also wanted some little goldfish including in the design.

Want some of your own personalised Russian Dolls? Contact me through my Etsy Shop or at ponychopsshop@gmail.com

Don't forget to enter my Celine H20 Giveaway!

Christmas Themed Russian Dolls

This is the last set for this year! They're available here.

Snowman Russian Dolls

I loved painting these guys tiny little hats! They're up on the shop now.