Doll Head ornaments/pendants I made find them for sale at http://www.etsy.com/shop/uglyartdotnet

Old Blanket & Withered Garden Doll info can be found on my site http://www.uglyart.net/uglys/creations.php?cmd=products&prod_id=164 TITLE: A Old Blanket and a Withered Garden MEDIUM:Paper clay,ceramic,clear glass eyes,cotton,string and a wooden base.The costume is made from one of my rotted childhood blankets which I allowed to decay in my garden where my pets who have passed on are buried. SIZE: 16 X 12 inches. Ugly Shyla Ugly Art Dolls Myspace My Execution Style Clothing Design Etsy Shop Uglyshyla.com Ugly Art Dolls Follow me on Twitter Add me on facebook

I listed some new photo prints of my doll photography and my modeling work on my website.I have them in 8X12 or 20X30 inch sizes.The 8X12 are 15.00 and the 20X30 are 30.00.The 20X30 prints are huge almost poster size photo prints.They are printed on photo paper not plain paper like most posters are.I try and keep the photo prints in stock,but when they sell fast it takes me about a week to get new stock in,so please keep that in mind. Some of the new prints include my Split Mouth Doll photos and my Stocking photos by Alas Vera. Links to the photo prints. Link to the doll photo prints Link to the Modeling Photo Prints Ugly Shyla A sampling of a FEW of the pic's I listed. Ugly Art Dolls Myspace My Execution Style Clothing Design Etsy Shop Uglyshyla.com Ugly Art Dolls Follow me on Twitter Add me on facebook

Article on my Menstrual art on Trend hunter. http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/ugly-shyla

I will get allot of heat,and hate mail and people angry with this post,but all I have to say is please pick a number and get your ass in the line,it starts wayyyy back there.As usual anybody that gets pissed off at my vitriolic ranting,are usually pissed off because they feel guilty in the back of their minds. One thing you can bet on if you really believe in what you are doing and work hard to get it out there,is that some dip shit will come along and copy it. You are not guaranteed fame,success or money but if you work means allot to you and you put your heart into it,the dip shits will come. One thing a non-creative type doesn't understand is that it's actually hurtful to have this happen to you.And it's one of those type of things that is a very pin pointed type of hurtful. I made my first doll in 1996 when I was 16 years old and started doing it professionally at 19 and started a website a bit before I was 19 for my artwork. Since then the dipshits have come,and at times they come in droves.I'm not the only doll maker with this problem.They are much to ladylike to say it but Kerry Kate www.kerrykate.com and Beth Roberson www.strangedolls.net/index.html also get their work pillaged and copied all to hell.And it's sad they are both unique and talented ladies,who would never ever do that to somebody else. I know when I start these rants I sound like Little Richard saying he invited Rock and Roll but he kind of did,and mind you I DO share a birthday with Little Richard. Kerry Kate started doing those very cool stump type dolls she painted up all retro. Beth does wonderful strange,unusual dolls of things like dolls with distorted faces or with Raven's heads. Kerry Kate and I started doing allot of conjoined twins dolls around the same time. I started making Memento Mori dolls or Sleeping Beauties of deceased children a few years back and also started making child mummies *because of some reoccurring dreams that just haunted and hounded me" Even some of the terms we have all started have been copied,Beth calls her dolls Strange Dolls now others are adding the words strange dolls into the title of their websites and work.I coined the phrase Morbid Fine Art Dolls,that has also been picked up by other people.Kerry Kates's phrasing ect about her work is also pillaged,even the way she displays her dolls on her site is "borrowed" from. Now having said that I want you to go on every pseudo spooky doll makers website and you will find copies of all above items. What is the most hurtful about people copying my work is it's very much from the heart and from the other side so to speak. I never paid that much mind to dolls and never thought I'd grow up to be a doll maker.It found me and it's my vocation in life.It's tied with my emotions,my spirituality and my whole life.The art and the dolls come first,mainly because they are so tied to my spirituality in a way.I guess in some aspects voodoo highly reveres things like effigies that it's hard for it not to be connected. Lets take the fact that I do allot of dolls of deceased,aborted or abused children.Like I said before hand I started making dolls at 16 on a whim and got stuck in it like quicksand.I started doing it just see if could construct one and I *like most surrealist* have always been a vivid dreamer,and also used dreams as a way to communicate with those who have passed over,again as a part of my spiritual practice and beliefs which is Voodoo.Once I started making dolls I found out that I could get the images out of my head by making them into art or dolls. After I got into the groove of doing that,I started to dream and see things that were messages that the other side wanted to come across to this side. Again dolls and art were a perfect medium for that.The things that bothered me the most and was the most heart retching were the dreams communications of the spirits of children who had passed on,especially those who were killed. I'd have dreams where they were at times in a mummy like state and they would run up to me to pick them up,and I'd tie my heart in the dreams and do it.I can still feel the feeling of their dried skin,how they left so light and weightless.Or waking up with something almost whispering in your ear to make dolls that are a representation of a aborted child.And you think God NO I will get so much flack for that,I really don't want to do THAT! I actually used to be pro-choice before all of this.Now I am not anymore.Before I go any further in this post I want to say I am talking about how meaningful my art is to me.NOT taking part in a pro and cons of abortion debate,and mention or argument about my or your thoughts on abortion will just be ignored. Anyway as the years progressed and I started getting closer to some of the Loa and Orisha spiritually and closer to the spirits of the dead the more the ideas/dreams kept coming.Again these are extremely realistic dreams,where I'd see things about death that I had no clue about,and after I started researching death,forensics and decomposition I figured out I was actually correct in my work. As I go further and further into my art not only do I deal with the dream imagery but I also expose myself to work research,in exposing myself to death in reality by researching imagery and trying to help the dying and the dead in this world. When going to funerals I always pat the hand of the deceased and give them a kiss because in some way to me it brings both worlds together.The spiritual world I only see in dreams and the actual reality of death which we shouldn't fear. Some people are so scared of a dead body they won't go near the deceased,which I think is sad in a way,what if the deceased is watching the scene at the funeral and you are treating their discarded shell/body like it's got the plague or something. I also when every I can will offer myself in service to the dying,no matter if it requires me to feed them,give them finical help,change bandages or stay with them and pray or sit with them while they are dying. Being a child of Obatala and The Baron it's my call to help the dead and dying.Even if my way of helping is giving their tragic story a physical manifestation. If people view my work of say dead babies and they get upset it makes them sad GOOD!That is what it's supposed to do,it's supposed to show the sorrow and hurt of losing a loved one or the pure horror of what a murdered child looks like.Maybe if people are faced with it, they will get off their asses and DO something about it.I have seen the images and I know how they stick with me and make me want to do everything in my power to never see something like that again.I don't want to even see the things I have to make,nobody wants to be exposed to imagery unless it's a necessary part of their life. I'm not overtly enthused about growing up to be some weirdo,preachy doll maker with one foot on the other side and one foot dangling in this realm. So long story short that is where I'm coming from. Now you will NEVER ever find any of the copycats doing work they say outright that it's about/against child abuse or is a glaring representation of abortion,because they would require them to bite the bullet so to speak and they are not going to do that.They live in a lady where imagery of deceased children are something only seen in a horror movie,or gory imagery is done for shock value or as a horror prop,or things are done to be all cutesy and spooky.Not something done to preach at people.Which I know I do come off as preachy and as a jerk but I will own up to it and if the shoe fits I'm glad to dance on your head with it.

TITLE: The Accusatory Doll MEDIUM: Porcelain,china paint,crackle ceramic glaze,a sculpted red acrylic heart on her breast plate,wood and various antique nick nacks decorating the base. COSTUME Black crepe fabric,and antique white fabrics and antique laces.Her human hair wig and leather shoes are all hand made. SIZE: 24 X 12 inches STATUS: For sale 500.00,you can find the doll up for sale on my site here Uglyart.net,a payment plan is available for her. I covered her base with lots of different nick nacks even a jar of rusty old pins.Her costume took me forever because there was allot of hand sewing involved and it seems like I had to glaze,china paint and fire her 100 times before I got it the way I wanted it. Ugly Shyla Ugly Art Dolls Myspace Execution Style Clothing Myspace Uglyshyla.com Ugly Art Dolls Follow me on Twitter Add me on facebook

Everybody feel free to repost this. I figured I'd run a little contest to give away one of my Conjoined twins necklaces. All you have to do to enter is post on your myspace,facebook,blog,twitter or whatever you have along those lines a little blurb telling folks to check out my sites http://www.uglyart.net and http://uglyartdotnet.etsy.com Make sure the links WORK in your post.Once you have done that post the link to your post plugging my site here on my wordpress blog,at this entry,make sure to include your e-mail addy with your post so I can contact you if you win. You HAVE to post your info on my wordpress blog *see the link above* not this myspace blog for it to cound. Please only one entry per person and the winner will be chosen next Monday,Sept 7th by a random number generator.Folks outside of the USA are more then welcome to enter. The necklace is black resin,with silver paste highlights and a silvertone adjustable chain.The pendant is about 2 inches and the chain is 12 inches. Good Luck everybody! Ugly Shyla The prize

I listed some new handmade Conjoined Twins Jewelry on ebay http://shop.ebay.com/uglyartdolls/m.html They range in price from 15.00 to 30.00 and all handmade so they are one of a kind wearable works of art.And no I won't end the auctions early so you can buy it outright. Ugly Shyla Ugly Art Dolls Myspace Execution Style Clothing Myspace Uglyshyla.com Ugly Art Dolls Follow me on Twitter Add me on facebook

Just what I need something else to likely get me on a FBI dangerous artist list.:P My friend Steven Leyba is starting a art war movement.Allot of artist have signed the declaration and made statements on it.Myself included.If you'd like you read the statements ect you can see them on his site here http://www.coyotelpress.com/ArtWar.html The Coyotel Core wants to hear your thoughts from the front of ART WAR. Tell us about life in the trenches. Do you intend to define and defend True Art As well as create it? A statement of any length is requested. This is your war too. Join the fight. Dispatches: publisher@coyotelpress.com Ugly Shyla Ugly Art Dolls Myspace Execution Style Clothing Myspace Uglyshyla.com Ugly Art Dolls Follow me on Twitter Add me on facebook

I have my Stinger piece on display and available for purchase at Hive Gallery in Los Angeles,Ca Ugly Shyla Ugly Art Dolls Myspace Execution Style Clothing Myspace Uglyshyla.com Ugly Art Dolls Follow me on Twitter