In a week of Royal announcements I can also say that I've created a new body! I've just completed the second workshop with doll maker, Kathryn Thompson and here are the fruits of my labours.
Arriving with a bag of body parts and an un-stuffed head or two, the class was soon whipped into shape as we had a lot to get through. I realised that the course was not just about making a doll but it was actually a lesson in drawing faces. Kathryn took us through the essentials of proportion and then focussed on how to create details such as eyebrows and eye colour using her impressive collection of fine markers and colouring pencils. Armed with this knowledge we then set about with some strong thread, a very long needle and a complicated version of dot-to-dot pictures to give the facial contours.
I have to confess to being a little scared of this doll and I think that it's because the face is too life-like, which should be a huge compliment to Kathryn. I made two faces but opted to use a blank canvas face with only a minimum amount of shading. My doll is a Patchwork Sprite sewing a small piece of work. She has a skirt made from some knitted wool/wire, embellished with trimmings and tiny cotton-reel earings.
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