Although it's not quite finished yet, I believe it is now safe for me to tell you about my secret doll project that kept me largely absent from the internet for the last 6 months. This is it - the first porcelain prototype of a large Enchanted Doll. She is a 1 meter tall ( 3 feet) scaled up replica of my original sculpt. You can see the sets side by side for size comparison. Both of them are getting painted this week and assembled into dolls.
Needless to say, the last few months have been rather challenging and nerve-wrecking, as I've had to learn a bunch of new skills and acquire new equipment to be able to create large scale ceramic sculpture. To make matters even more interesting, during the whole process I had no idea if the project was even structurally possible or viable. The will-it-or-won't-it aspect of it has definitely added some nervous excitement into my life, but I'm really happy that the uncertainty is almost at an end.
Although who knows, more problems will probably crop up as they tend to do with new territory. Stringing might prove to be an insurmountable disaster yet, and render all my efforts pointless. I'm testing new springs tomorrow, so keep a ALL your fingers and toes crossed for me, will ya?
And of course now that the cat is out of the bag, stay tuned for the picture updates on the painting and stringing this new doll of mine.
To soothe those of you who are wondering, I have absolutely no plans to abandon my original scale. From now on, I will be working small and large. The new, glorious era of Enchanted Doll is here!
And this doll shall be called, Gloriana!