Dolls

[Buster's Uncle]

This one's mostly notable for the prominent photo of Buster's Grampa -he had a lazy eye for 40 years, and never got in the habit of cooperating with having his picture taken, so good ones of him are rare- and part of Momma's miniature tea set collection at bottom.

You can't see it very well in this, but on the next-to-bottom shelf, in front to the left, is a casting of a piece I did for Mylochka of her dog Diego  laying head-to-tail against Momma's dog Polly.  Alas, neither is with us anymore.

Obviously, Mother is rather fond of nick-nacks...

[Rusty Edge]

How about a close up of your dog sculpture?

[Buster's Uncle]

Okaydoke.  Hang on a few minutes...

[Buster's Uncle]

Polly really did lay that way.  The piece benefitted from a good paint job by Mom.  The long end of the base is slightly longer than the palm of my hand, but only barely.

[Rusty Edge]

Looks good. My dog likes to lay like that sometimes, too.

[Buster's Uncle]

Detail work is tough at that scale, lemme tell you.  The ears were murder, and I never did get the legs quite to my satisfaction.  It didn't help that I wasn't looking at photo references as I went.  Pretty good likenesses, considering.

I've been up against the same thing recently - one of the little dolls Mom came home with a few weeks ago was short an arm -cost 25 cents- and the sculpy was too soft to do nice proportioning/detail on an arm half the length of my pinky.

[Buster's Uncle]

Olivia is an interesting case - several times, I've bought kits at somewhere like Hobby Lobby, that are a head and hands, and you're supposed to make a cloth body and do the rest yourself.  She's one of those.

I've actually got a mold for the head of a Buster doll made for quite a few years now, but never done anything with it.  I have a vague idea of a sawdust-glue mix for the casting, that we can paint and glaze like an old-fashioned doll.  It's really the materials issue that's held me up.

[Buster's Uncle]

I can think of a few individual dolls not yet pictured, but this mostly covers it for now for this house...

[Unorthodox]

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[Rusty Edge]

That was the most awesome Barbie ever!

I think I want to see a companion piece- Ken Scissorhands!

[Buster's Uncle]

Mom has been working on Elizabeth...

[Buster's Uncle]

First, the Elizabeth I Barbie, as Rusty spotted...

The hairdo looks vaguely like something Liz might have worn - but not one any of us can recall, and she's a favored historical figure of all three of us.  Glenda Jackson left quite an impression.

So Momma redid her hair, for a start.  Other improvements as they happen.

-This sort of thing is frequent around here.-

[Geo]

Is it long work making a new doll from scratch?

[Buster's Uncle]

Depends on the doll - sometimes, Mom didn't set out to make something difficult/complicated in the first place.

[Geo]

Depends on the doll - sometimes, Mom didn't set out to make something difficult/complicated in the first place.

Btw, any plans to make porch cupboards displaying some of the dolls?