Alison Johnson:  

I think I'm different than the way people might remember me; I found my inner rugby song meister while living in Taiwan and running with the Hash House Harriers, a wonderful and totally politically incorrect way to blow off steam. I might be sliding back to what I might have become without that since getting married and moving (long-term temporary) to Texas. I've been working on doll makeovers since coming here -- did some prints then fell into the whole arena of one of a kind doll makeovers. I like to do some with a message (Ann Coulter and The Clutch of Plagiarism; Paris Hilton in the only iconic outfit I could find after painting a doll that cam to resemble her and on which I then capitalized; a very simple makeover of a Rosie O'Donnell doll into Monica Lewinsky), and I play with a lot of them: the Sepulveda girls which became an entire Sepulveda Family. Lately I've been working on dolls of characters in Naruto, Inuyasha, Samurai Champloo, and Full Metal Alchemist. Working with the dolls and setting up scenes for photographs, making accessories and props .. has been working together to lead me back toward painting a...Expand for more