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Weirdo Toys is the home for all those random toys that most people have left behind. This site is dedicated to showcasing the quirky, neat, bizarre, sometimes forgotten and downright ugly toys that I’ve stumbled upon.
Whether it’s a fleamarket, dollar store, garage sale or a toystore, they all contribute to the ever-growing population of weirdo toys.
Weirdo Toys Website
http://www.weirdtoys.com
Most of the Broken Toyland characters came to life in the late 90′s and early 00′s. A lot of it started with my series, Weeds. The visuals have to do with my love of the past… vintage toys, cartoons and such. Then came the rag dolls, patchwork bunnies and others. Broken Toyland is comprised of many endearing characters. It’s base is in behavior, emotion, situation and imperfection. While Bunny very often has a smoke or a drink (or both) in hand, this is not what’s being promoted. There’s much more going on than what might be first assumed at first glance. The anesthetics symbolize something else.
The name, Broken Toys, was inspired by the book, The Velveteen Rabbit. Read it if you haven’t. It’s beautifully touching.
I read the book every so often. And in early 2000, inspired the Broken Toys Series. The sketches started and evolved to many characters. Some of which haven’t even be introduced yet.
Valery Milovic has a beautiful mind and it is truly displayed in her work.
Broken Toy Land Website
http://www.brokentoyland.com
Influenced by a Roman Catholic upbringing, punk rock, Erte, and Edward Gorey, Hollywood native Elizabeth McGrath is one of her generation’s more unique and prolific artists. She creates in a number of mediums and materials with undeniable artistry and imagination. Her paintings are haunted whispers of color, depicting subtly dangerous creatures that creep towards the edge of the canvas. Her stitched and bandaged dolls and toys are a united army of soft strangeness and her mixed media dioramas are isolated freak shows displaying rotting subhuman figures luxuriously dressed for your pleasure of contempt. Link
