How the lace lingerie engraving started, from sketching pencil lines on the doll's torso to starting the engraving. No turning back once the needle carves the porcelain, much like an ink tattoo on skin. I have put many many more hours into this project since this video, and i can't wait to show the rest of the design. Stay tuned for more clips of the process!
This doll is going in for a high temperature firing, which is when porcelain slip vitrifies into glass and shrinks 20%.
Read MoreThis is a wax sculpture of a new Doll shadow box I’m currently making. It’s based on a well-known fairy tale character. Can you guess which one based on the ornamentation? Here’s a hint - she is a villain.
Read MorePorcelain ears need to be simplified down to the most basic shape to be released from the mold, and then details carved back in after de-molding or after the soft firing.
In this stage, porcelain is as fragile as an eggshell, and can’t tolerate any pressure or force.
Carving of details has to be done with the softest feather touch and the sharpest of tools. Or everything breaks into pieces.
But when everything goes right, the beauty and permanence of high-fired porcelain is simply incomparable.
Next step is china-painting.
Wet cleaning a soft-fired porcelain doll head. It's as fragile as an egg shell in this stage.
Read MoreCleaning porclain doll parts during a snowstorm
Read MorePouring porcelain slip into plaster molds.
Read MoreThe free flowing pendant has 16 vertebrae and 15 joints. It’s always dancing while I’m wearing it or when I can’t stop playing with it. In the video it goes through a patina process and then cleaned in a magnetic tumbler and then a rotary tumbler to give it that nice shine. The pendants are available in Silver and in Bronze
A short video of me signing and stamping the Enchanted Doll Publisher Edition book
Read MoreStill making many tiny beaded water lotuses. The repetition of construction without seeing any evidence of the final composition is getting a bit tedious after a few weeks of making these.
Read MoreThis signed and numbered limited edition of 500 covers the first decade of work of Enchanted Doll, 190 pages, hard bound, high quality offset printing on heavy art paper.
Read MoreFinishing this porcelain beautify ‘Serenity’ for an eBay auction later this fall!
Read MoreEmpress Theodora was a truly remarkable, accomplished, influential and impressive woman. She is a Byzantine-age feminist icon, a progressive reformer, and a real life Cinderella story!
Read MoreI’ve been working on a Little Red photo series to illustrate and publish one of my favourite fairy tales!
Read MoreAbandoning several months of work and starting over from scratch was a very hard decision to make, but it had to be done, sunk cost fallacy be damned!! I’ll talk more about why I made this decision in upcoming posts.
Stand by for more unveiling and enjoy!
“Reincarnation” crown on the White Peacock doll. I made and shot this piece a few months ago in grief and in celebration of the life, to get through a terrible and painful loss that I’ve been stuck in.
Read Moreexturing a canvas print with layers of transparent gel, to make it look like an expressionist oil painting.
Read MoreMy last photo series of 2022, with my current work-in-progress doll, Theodora.
Read MoreI’m applying hundreds of shiny scales to her royal robe, to resemble the golden Byzantine mosaics in churches
Read Morelooking very Elvish on my work table. I think she is channeling the radiant Lady Arwen at the moment, bathed in the light of the Ilúvatar.
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