Bit rusty

After a long time I did some water colour sketches. I used water colour pencils for these sketches of some buildings in Sardinia. Bit rusty though. I should really practice more.

Drum rooolllll Mini Challenge

The winner of the challenge is Barbara Johnson!  The second prize goes to Beverly Collins.
Ladies thank you so much for joining in the fun you all did a great job. Just by finishing the challenge itself makes you all a winner so one of the judges Sherry Goshan has very kindly given you all her online Gretchen pattern in appreciation of you all finishing the challeng. How cool is that!. I shall be posting that of to you all.
Barbara and Beverly can you please send me your snail mail address please so that I can send you my prize too.

Travelling

No it is not I who is travelling but my doll this time to the US. I just call him caterpillar 2 lol! He is going to Cifi instead of me this time and hopefully will be well received there. He has only one pair of hands as opposed to 2 pairs like the first one. I had to stop with one because I was having one of those days while making him when nothing seemed to be going right. So after struggling for hours I decided just a pair will have to do. Anyway he can still puff his hooka with just a pair of hands.

Mini Challenge pics

Wow I got some lovely pictures of what some of you have been doing in my Mini Challenge. These ladies have done a wonderful job so please get those pictures off to me soon. You still have plenty of time to do a head. Remember you only have to make a head but by all means make a doll if you want to just as one of the doll makers has one. The Challenge end date has been extended to the 12th of May.

 

 

 

Sue Gibson

 



 

Carolyn

 

 



Carolyn

 

 

Barbara Johnson

 

 

Judi Ward 

 

Beverly Collins

Re:Mini Challenge

So how is everyone doing with the Mini Challenge ? I have been asked if I can extend the finish date of the challenge so I have extended it to the 12 th  of May. So do join in you still have plenty of time to do so. You need to complete only the head.

Here is what I did with the Mini Challenge image

 

 

So how is everyone doing with the Mini Challenge image? If you have not joined you still have lots of time to join in and do it. I have already got a lovely entry. It is only a head you have to make and the bonus is it will all be still your very own pattern so come on ladies step up.  In the meantime here is what I did.

 

I hope spring is here for everyone. I live in hope as this fellow who hopes to get a glimpse of our neighbour's fish lol!

 

This is how I drew the head

Ok so let me tell you how I drew the head from my Mini Challenge image.

It is the front of the head we need to keep for the challenge because the back portion doesn't exist at the moment. So first I drew a line like so to seperate the front portion of the head

 Then I traced just the front portion onto a plain sheet of paper

 Then I added the back of the head by hand drawing it to the the front of the head and thus making a whole head like so..

 I then divided the head into half...

 and cut the outlined head like so...

 Then I cut the drawing of the head into half.

 I then lay front piece onto a blank piece of paper and shaped the side of the head as shown

 and then traced it onto the blank paper. It should look like this.

 Then I took the back piece of the head and traced the back onto the blank paper, notice I did not trace the side of the head yet.

 I then took the front piece and overlaid it onto the drawing of the back piece like so and then drew the side of the front piece onto the back piece drawing.

 The image should look like this.

After cutting out the pieces here is the head pattern





Overlay them and walla you have a complete head.

At this point you can decide if you want to shape the back of the head a bit more or not. I think I might shape the back a bit more.
Let me know how you all are getting on with it. I am off to sew the head now.

Mini Challenge

I believe that there is nothing that you cannot get inspiration from. Look at this picture. It was just a piece of string that was lying on the floor and as soon as I looked at it I thought to my self I see a face in that string. Do you see it too?  If you do then you are free to down load it and make a doll head out of the image. How is that for a freebie :) I think I am going to try it just to see what comes out of it. Go on you all can give it a go too. The worst comes to worst it will end up in your bone yard or you may surprise yourself by making the most wonderful doll out of it. you are free to enlarge it as much as you like. The only thing I ask is don't try and change the shape of the front of the head as the challenge is about the face as it is. You will need to draw the back of the head but that is ok.

Actually I got an idea. I will make it into a challenge. There will be prizes for the best 3 doll heads. I will not judge it but will ask some wonderful doll makers to choose their choice of head.  Are you all game for it? Do let me know by leaving a comment.

Please send a photo of your finished heads to me. I will then put them up for judging.

PS - You have till the 4 th of May so plenty of time to get it done

Doll I made earlier in the year

Because of all the things going on in my life I couldn't post the picture of this doll which I had made earlier this year. She was a CIFI challenge doll. The theme for this year was under the sea. Her name is Aurelia and she is a jelly fish who rises ethereally from the depths of the sea floating silently by wherever the tide takes her. Her skirt lights up with fibre optic lights. Unfortunately the lights don't show up well in the picture except as bluish tint. I found it hard to depict the ethereal and floaty look of a jelly fish so she just looks like a ballerina lol!

Table Mess

What a mess! I should clear it all but need to just do a bit more. Drawing patterns are so tedious I prefer to make them and embellish them.