This page provides links to galleries of our past work, students' work, dolls for sale, tutorials,
drawings and some of our favourite doll related links.
Enjoy at your leisure and please send us any comments via the contact page.
drawings and some of our favourite doll related links.
Enjoy at your leisure and please send us any comments via the contact page.
Galleries
Adopted Dolls
The dolls in this gallery are sold, gifted, willed or just plain refuse to leave our gallery or personal collection. Molly pictured left was a joint gallery effort with a number of students' work going to the completed doll. She was auctioned by the DCCT to assist a children's charity. This page includes some commissions, a challenge to makers because of the brief dictated by the commissioner. |
Students' Work
All dolls in this gallery are the work of our talented students. As mentioned in our "classes" reference, we provide the foundations for our students to express their own creativity. Many of the talents displayed by our students, fine knitting, smocking, artistic flair, exceptional colour sense, were all brought to their dolls by them. Awards they have won are rightly a reflection of their excellent work. |
Drawings - never say never :)
An accidental talent discovered because of a compulsory course component.
I have fun with faces and Charcoal as well as porcelain.
If interested in a portrait from your own picture - please use the contact form to get in touch.
I have fun with faces and Charcoal as well as porcelain.
If interested in a portrait from your own picture - please use the contact form to get in touch.
Tutorials
From time to time we will post picture tutorials.
They will be our own work and methodology but will of course borrow from common practices.
We hope you will find them helpful - we may make suggestions and recommendations which are unorthodox.
We encourage you to do your own research and experimentation - no one source is complete as dolls ooze diversity and history.
They will be our own work and methodology but will of course borrow from common practices.
We hope you will find them helpful - we may make suggestions and recommendations which are unorthodox.
We encourage you to do your own research and experimentation - no one source is complete as dolls ooze diversity and history.
Occupational Health and Safety
Never assume what you are using is safe.
Porcelain is a clay which contains fine particles of Silica. Dust control is essential in avoiding silicosis.
For some, skin exposure to porcelain slip can affect the ph balance of the skin.
The same applies to plaster - avoid dust, particularly breathing dust and avoid skin contact where possible.
Read lots about life casting - do not apply plaster directly to body parts -
you may get burnt and will certainly (very painfully) lose hair without proper precautions.
Paints - all paints - carry hazardous materials - research your chosen materials carefully before use.
Odourless does not mean non toxic.
Low toxicity means slow poison.
Overheated vinyl and plastics produce dangerous fumes.
NOW you can have fun
Porcelain is a clay which contains fine particles of Silica. Dust control is essential in avoiding silicosis.
For some, skin exposure to porcelain slip can affect the ph balance of the skin.
The same applies to plaster - avoid dust, particularly breathing dust and avoid skin contact where possible.
Read lots about life casting - do not apply plaster directly to body parts -
you may get burnt and will certainly (very painfully) lose hair without proper precautions.
Paints - all paints - carry hazardous materials - research your chosen materials carefully before use.
Odourless does not mean non toxic.
Low toxicity means slow poison.
Overheated vinyl and plastics produce dangerous fumes.
NOW you can have fun
Tutorial 1 - Making a 2 piece plaster mould
A little while back I decided I would like a life size little one to "greet" visitors to our studio.
The hand forms were "supplied" by a little friend of ours (hmmm maybe another tutorial).
They are a direct cast copy - not my own sculpting - hence their accuracy.
So for any porcelain doll parts - moulds must be available to work with.
Here is how it was done. - Any comments to our contacts page please.
The hand forms were "supplied" by a little friend of ours (hmmm maybe another tutorial).
They are a direct cast copy - not my own sculpting - hence their accuracy.
So for any porcelain doll parts - moulds must be available to work with.
Here is how it was done. - Any comments to our contacts page please.
Tutorial 2 - Painting eyes on a porcelain doll
One approach to paint a realistic set of eyes.
NOTE: more steps may be required for extra detail - particularly with hazel eyes.
NOTE: more steps may be required for extra detail - particularly with hazel eyes.
Tutorial 3 - Constructing a larger doll
A couple of Indians commissioned by a client.
This tutorial shows one way they could be constructed.
This tutorial shows one way they could be constructed.
