Under pressure
I have been pushing myself to create an angel doll for submission to publicity for the winter show at Kawartha Artists' Gallery here in Peterborough. After several tense days, I was able to photograph her and send off the image. It was fun to make the chair and wings, but it was a struggle to get the armature to sit right on the chair. If that isn't right, none of it goes properly. Even now, it isn't the way I want it, but that's as much as she is getting. The photos don't do her justice, as she is very pale. Her charm doesn't come through, although I may be looking at her with the fond eyes of a mother! At the same time, I have been working on a doll inspired by Jane Eyre. She is made of ProSculpt Baby that baked full of moonies, so she has been painted all over and flesh tones added on top in washes. In order to get her dress to stand out in the bell shape that was desirable in the early Victorian period, I did a lot of research. First, I loo...