Paulette Insall All about Faces Class

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I'm doing a painting class with Paulette Insall. I have finally learned to draw a nose with nostrils which doesn't look as if it belongs to a pig.

Polly Patches

Polly Patches, originally uploaded by juliestenning.

And here she is in full.

Polly Patches' Detail

Polly Patches' Detail, originally uploaded by juliestenning.

I have finally finished Polly Patches. Here is her face in detail.

Polly Patches is almost finished

I'm still not sure about her hair and she needs something to hold. Hopefully I will get time to go to Hobby Craft on Friday after work and buy her one or two silk flowers. Miriam and I decided yesterday that her hair needs to be in bunches. Her little badge is one I bought in South Africa but comes from South America. It is tiny and hand made, I wouldn't like to make something that fiddly.

Doll Heads

During the first weekend in September I went to Cromer in Norfolk (UK) to do a two day workshop with Jan Horrox. It was all about making heads for dolls. We made the middle two on the first day and the outside two on the second. I was very pleased with the results, I have rather a lot of awful heads in my body box.

The one at the top is actually a flat piece of material but the shading makes it look as if the nose is sticking out.

The one on the right is supposed to be a troll but I sewed top top of the front section to the bottom of the back. I was able to redeem it with some judicious needle scuplting. I just need to make bodies now to finish them off. Making bodies is easy in comparison to heads. You can visit Jan's site at www.janhorrox.com

Having a Bath

I have been a bit remiss in posting to my blog. Work has taken up a lot of time recently although I have had time to the the odd craft project. When I was in South Africa I bought some American books from the 1970s about doll making. One of them had a doll made of stockings and it was taking a bath. I belong to the yahoo group ukfabricfigures and we had a challenge to create a doll doing something, so I decided to make one having a bath. All I had to do for the challenge was take a photo. The doll only has fingers in one hand and the hair was taped on with double sided tape. I think I will keep the photos but chuck the doll!

I did find that stocking was quite good for shaping although some bits worked better than others.

ATCs

I've been making ATCs for a swap. I was given Tim Holtz's DVD "An Altered Journey" for my birthday and I finally got to watch it yesterday. I had fun spritzing inked up rubber stamps to give a watercolour effect (Tim Holtz calls this "Brushless Watercolour") and making backgrounds with alcohol inks.


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