It's time to make some magic! Get your head together!
After the usual sleep deprivation from reconnecting with friends until the wee hours, I settled in to
Clarissa Callesen's "Steampunk Sally" class. I transformed a porcelain doll from this:
To this:
We began by scalping our dolls...
and then we divided into work shifts. While one half added gesso and toasted it with butane torches...
the other half painted the cloth bodies.
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| Deborah Olsen's gear design |
We sewed clothes for them too: corsets, wings...
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| Kimberly's doll corset |
skirts and dresses...
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| Christine Benjamin's steampunk pirate |
Not to mention hair -- gears and coils to suggest hair, and duded-up versions of the original wigs.
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| Sheri Debow's Marie Antoinette-style doll |
Oh, but the best part by far was learning to paint the faces. (That, and the chance to use my
new Golden paints. Mmmm.)
It was a complex series of steps, but surprisingly, not intimidating. I give you Miss Lucretia "Lucy" Pettigrew of Port Townsend: Professional Furniture-Climber...
Mud Puddle Stomper...
and Occasional Pyromaniac.
Besides the cyborg eye, she'll need more embellishments. I'll post photos when I can.
After the usual sleep deprivation from reconnecting with friends until the wee hours, I settled in to Clarissa Callesen's "Steampunk Sally" class. I transformed a porcelain doll from this:
To this:
We began by scalping our dolls...
and then we divided into work shifts. While one half added gesso and toasted it with butane torches...
the other half painted the cloth bodies.
It was a complex series of steps, but surprisingly, not intimidating. I give you Miss Lucretia "Lucy" Pettigrew of Port Townsend: Professional Furniture-Climber...
Mud Puddle Stomper...
and Occasional Pyromaniac.
Besides the cyborg eye, she'll need more embellishments. I'll post photos when I can.