If you were wondering how Khorae is doing, as I sit here typing, Rosslyn is sitting and blushing her body. Her face has been partially blushed in but not yet finished. She still needs eyebrows, lashes, and lips filled in more. I am entirely too excited to see her finished. ^__^ We kinda need to finish her while the weather is still dry--which leaves us maybe a couple weeks until nothing more can be done until Spring.
I went to Great Western War 2011. While there I took a class on dolls and, specifically jointed dolls, was able to sculpt (out of sculpy), bake, and string together my own clay doll! The teacher was hilarious and once I can get the full article she found in pdf (have to email her for it), I'll post the link or something here.
She's jointed in an interesting way--string runs through her joints, which fit together, not like ball joints, but more like hinges. I need to put beads or something into her eye sockets still, so she can have, ya know, eyes. I haven't named her, but she'll be hanging out with my tinies, perhaps as a tea party (should I have any) participant. She's so delightfully simple, even to make. My perfectionist tendencies really bugged me as I sculpted her, but hey, I've never sculpted anything before.
Here, enjoy the photos of the first thing I've ever sculpted!
The teacher provided the amber beads and tiny sword and chest (and some cloth not pictured) to take the doll safely home. I'll be giving her yarn hair and making her little medieval clothes as time goes on. Winter is coming on, so I'm working on getting ideas ready.
I'll try for better and more detailed photos some other time. My camera and I are having arguments about how much battery power it has. See my regular blog for the rest of my war stories and haul (to be posted shortly).
Briar: We's come a long way from Middle Ages.
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