Dolls coming along...

Ok the heads are stitched, stuffed and decorated.

Next I needed to design some hands with articulated fingers and thumb! :0)

Here is what I came up with....

I am very pleased with how my first EVER pair of cloth hands turned out!

Whoop! Whoop!

I used this great site as a ref: HERE

Next to design the body :0)

Love & light

Trace

xoxo

A rag doll's story by Tracey-anne

A rag doll

Today I have been working on making a new design doll.

This is cloth, no clay! Wow :0)

I designed the head first, then cut & sew the pattern, they still require a body.

I played with sketching on cloth, I still have a long way to go but I am happy with the idea of this style.

I would love to incorporate embroidery but as I have sewn them I will have to make some more to try this.

Love & light

Trace

xoxo

Inspired!

Hi Everyone :0)

Yesterday I sat on the laptop playing around with images in picmonkey! 

Great fun :0)

Then I designed a large cloth head pattern.

I usually work more in clay, folk art dolls but  upon admiring a doll designer 

- Christy Kane it got my juices flowing and wanting to create a different style of doll!!

You can see Christy's wonderful creations Christy KaneHERE

Love & light

Trace

xoxo

The beginning of a Boudoir Doll

OOOoo I am really excited about my first trial cloth & clay, Boudoir Doll!

I used calico for the base fabric/pattern.

Pattern out out and sewn

Stuffed and awaiting prep prior to clay application.

Love & light

Trace

oxo

Day 8

29 faces in May

Day 8

 Boudoir doll sketches

Watercolour & Polychromos coloured pencils

love & light

Trace

oxo

Day 7 Frida for 29 faces

Day 7

of 29 faces in May 2012

Frida

love & light

Trace

xoxo

Frida Challenge May

Frida Challenge 

via

Gritty Jane

I decided for this challenge to try my hand at photo transfer once more..

In the 'Lifebook' class I used this technique for the first time and loved it!

This time I left out the collage' base and transferred the 

black & white image onto watercolour paper.

Below is the next step - A colour wash over the whole of transfer and border,

to give me a feel of the colours I wanted to blend.

In the following step I used gesso to cover everything to provide a key, 

then I acrylics applied over face, hair and clothing, finally a decoupaged rose.

love & light

Trace

xoxo