Face close up

Her little sleepy face is so adorable......will take more pictures soon :)

New hands and feet

My "Sleeping beauty" is now ready to be strung!
She was baked with her final china paint layer yesterday and today she is out of the kiln and ready for new adventure :-)
This week I will work on polymer lining her joints and will put her together - very excited!
Here are the new, tiny hands and feet:

I made new prototype...

She will be very similar to my previous prototype but will have small changes as well as double jointed knees. I made the top of her torso a little thinner then in my "Red Riding Hood's" prototype.
This one I am working on will be a "Sleeping Beauty", right now I have the parts out of the mold and will be cleaning them up, next then the first stage of kiln firing.

Did you notice - the face is rather wider then in my previous girls :) .

Victorian doll is completed!

I made the second wig for her and her little shoes so now she is all done :

The mystery girl is revealed!

I decided to make a Victorian style doll.
So the mystery girl is not a mystery any more :), she is a simple girl from the old Victorian age, with her hair free and beautiful, her dress is nearly finished, I am only left to make her shoes and her pale, curly wig to complete her look.
Of course I will take some better pictures of her when she is done, I just love to do this quick spontaneous shots, sometimes the doll looks better on the pictures that I don't spend too much time on then ones that take nearly half the day.

Mystery girl

So I made a wig for her, it is very silky, long and beautiful angora goat's hair and I love the way it looks and feels.
I will be making a second wig for her, and her character is still a mystery :)

Hello everyone,
I am sorry you haven't heard from me for a while, I've been away for the whole month, spent some time in Ukraine with my dear family. I had a great time but am happy to be back.

So before I left I had started to work on a new girl, and now I've put her together and here is what I have so far :

She is from the same face mold as my little red riding hood, but you can see how different she looks with a little touch of a brush and an extra paint.
I had in mind to make a Victorian style doll, this type of a face reminds me of the doll faces they made back then, but now that I've painted her she looks almost like a little gypsy girl from one of the John W Godward's paintings (one of my favorite by the way), so now I will have to stare at her for a while and imagine her in both styles, maybe play with some hair and fabrics.