Painted her face: eyes and very pale pink on mouth and I pencilled some eyebrows.
I tried other faces but this is the only one she is prepared to wear at the moment. She obviously likes to keep her cards close to her chest when it comes to facial expression.
Nearly ready. Her dress is wired with very thin copper wire in the hem so that the dress too can be posed. I need to add detail to face and decide what to do about shoes … if anything.
Making a new puppet. Thinking of stopmotion again. The clay for the hands is a new rubber/polymer compound called Cosclay Doll – and it’s flexible! (Providing the puppet is wired first of course.)
Just what I need.
PS. I seemed to get lost with the drawing thing (see previous posts).
Another exercise from Mattias Adolfsson’s Domestika course “The Art of Sketching” brings me the delights of isometric perspective. I really enjoyed this one. It didn’t hurt my head half as much as linear perspective.
Would you believe that no one taught me linear perspective at art school? Though my Foundation course did give me a try at the isometric version. They supposed that we may go on to design things and could need the skill. Good for them. The Fine Art course taught me to just get on with it myself.
But then I didn’t enjoy that part of my education.
One of the exercises on the drawing course is to develop a “selfie” cartoon … a character self portrait. This caused me to use up a lot of pages in the sketch book. And to get really upset. Vanity struggles with realism. Ageing is not a good look for me, never mind the artistic challenge of frizzy grey hair.
