Rose...a Lost Soul in Progress

Rose will be about 7 inches...I have Sculpted her head , bodice , upper and lower arms and lower legs...her body will be a simple torso bodysuit with upper legs that has a two way stretch....it pulls easily over her wire armature....then lightly stuffed for a this soft torso.

I thought she might have ANTLERS.  BUT AS SHE PROGRESSES...ITS JUST NOT HER!

She is coming along and she is telling me she needs Roses ...a Rose color ...?!?  What?..

So... after I started dressing her and getting ideas I wanted to touch up one eyebrow ...went  to squirt a little the brown paint ...ugh..  SPLATTERED all over the doll, her hair and the tile. I was able to wash her hair successfully but now she has fine pretty freckles that were not in the plan!!!  But now I love them  ...also made me  rethink her hair into braids...

Instead of just painting her shoes...I went for a little more dimension. I used Half Cilla air dry in this vtiny mold because it has nice tiny intricate designs that are quite shallow...it allowed me to create a fine design on the foot with out adding bulk because I want teeny feet..... 

I also started to create tiny roses. Ill paint then along with her shoes...use some rub ons and maybe triple thick

So. Now she has a Scrunched up vintage sheers hanky as  a dress .  It was peach but I dyed it with distress stains and Silks paint.  Just finished sewing her rose jacket...but now it needs a ruffle and buttons I think....she needs last steps of embellishment and a special WAND ...

2 Done Dolls!!!!



December Babe Paperclay Doll



Pink Leopard Cake Doll





So Sad..she does not see her Beauty



I 'm Feeling connected and working through a lot of dolls and Ideas...ok..2 down...a million more to go!!!

Anyway....The Pink Leopard Cake Doll has a funky little face and and I got to practice my favorite painting technique in Pink for her cake hat that was created from Pluffy clay!!!    Leopard..i just love it! My good Friend and Teacher, Lillian Alberti,  taught me how to paint Leopard Print... I am forever greatful.  I also did her shoes the same print, and added Teeny tiny polymer roses...also a Technique taught to me by a good friend and teacher, Amber Dawn Inventive Soul! ...I think a girl should always have matching accessories....



Pluffy Snow Goose Hat





Her dress and hat have tiny polymer flowers
made with a kemper cutter









Pluffy Cake Hat...the tiny beads are actually polymer clay created from a cool "fondant" mold...what'll they come up with next!



I also completed my little sad faced doll...she is my favorite...she is frail and skinny, quite sad..but I just have to Love her....something in her little face.  She is a Winter girl...like me, a saggitarius...her name is December Babe and her hat is a SnowGoose made from pluffy clay and a cool candy mold!  After I baked the goose..I carved her a little thinner and added paperclay to the bottom creating a cap do her head would fit...

Pink Leopard painted print..tiny polymer roses...crystals...





Bunny Rabbit Dolly

 



Coloring bead caps for joints





She is laughing because she is hiding a pink jelly bean in her hand!



yes...yes...I know its wayyyyy after easter! But The doll was completed ...and I got all caught up in family stuff...easter...a high school senior that may or may not graduate....you know...Silly stuff....that could rip your heart out!!!! 

Anyway...I gave the Bunny Dolly to my mom....but I know I will make more animal dollies....it was a cool experience and I didnt have to wig her!!!! 

So..jointing the rabbit , this time I doubled the wire...I added a wire going through the arms and the body, (same for the legs) and then added a decorative bead to the outside of the arms, looped the wire with pliers, then clipped...It really holds the arms and legs to the body and is an added embellishment.  The bead caps were treated with alcohol inks and gilders paste, sealed with matte varnish spray, to give a cool vintage look. I added pink dots with acrylics to pretty blue beads that i had...

Her jelly bean shoes are made out of soft pink dyed leather, premo polymer clay soles (premo is great for the soles because it is very strong...yet has some flexibility.  I

Her  clothes were all dyed with an acrylic paint , mixed with fabric medium and a little walnut ink for that "old " look.....you can see all the lace and ribbons ivory...then after dying...how great is that you can use any one of the magnificent cheap craft paints and make all your fabrics match....WOW.... The tiny jelly beans were made from polymer and varnished.

her easter basket is a silk cocoon dyed with acrylic paint...the chocolate chick is a cheapie plastic chick painted brown...then glossed with triple thick ......the grass is paper towels left over from painting everything!!!!

"GIRL iNTERRUPTED "2011 "Art is" paperclay doll

 

I am late with my my 2011 "Art is" doll....but she is coming along!

 She is a full paperclay doll consisting of separate body parts that are wired together with gems and findings.  HER BODY WAS CREATED FROM A FOIL CORE AND COVERED WITH PAPERCLAY.  THIS IS MY FIRST SCULPTED BODY...SO IT IS A BASIC SHAPE. BUT I want her to be a "doll" and not a "sculpture" !  Her Wired joints can bend and her legs and arms "DANGLE"! 

This little girl will have a "KITTY DOLLY" ...The kitty is also a tiny FOIL CORE with WIRE and PAPERCLAY sculpted over the FORM.  Her arms and tail are separate on wire so they can move.  She will be sanded smooth and shiny, painted and I'm "seeing" a vitage dress on her!!! haha  After she is pulled together...I have silky "lama" hair washed and brushed waiting for her to be  WIGGED!!!  and then on to the CROWN  and COSTUME!!!