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The time of the lilies.
Sounds like one of those frustrated nineteenth century novels where the heroine spends a great deal of time looking out of an upstairs window, fiddling with the net curtains whilst pinning all her hopes on a forthcoming bring and buy … Continue reading
The pour the merrier.
I am still pouring porcelain, by tomorrow I’ll be into my second week of it. I took a photograph of what I’d achieved the day before yesterday not very impressive is it? The moulds waiting to be poured are … Continue reading
Not raining, pouring.
Regular readers know exactly what I’m doing. I’m pouring liquid clay to make dolls, sculptures, ornaments and all the rest of the things I have made for over thirty one years in porcelain. There’s a lot to pour. There are … Continue reading
Gareth not Gareth.
I’ve been looking after the grandchildren while their parents were away on holiday. They live in a lovely Edwardian semi with all the original fireplaces, halfway up a mountain in Wales. Mountain is not an exaggeration. The first day I … Continue reading
Finished! (for now).
Very occasionally I’m quite pleased with myself. I was this afternoon, as I washed the kitchen floor having tidied up all the mess engendered by mould making. It is not dainty. I wore the same plaster encrusted trousers for a … Continue reading
Nearly done.
Or, nearly done in. Difficult to say which. I think I’ve been standing in the kitchen for a week, my fingernails have been bent backwards and filled with bits of plaster so often, my hands would like to run away. … Continue reading
Horses for courses.
Having finished the sculpting and modelling I found I have twenty one new things for the one hundredth Miniatura. That’s a lot for any show As each item has between one and six two-part moulds to produce the porcelain shape, … Continue reading
Having it off.
It all depends what you are having off and you may make your own joke here… and here. I’m having the day off. I’ve been sculpting for a good two weeks. The thing about arty stuff is you do get … Continue reading
More dolls.
It’s been a busy week, for a sculptor. I have an excellent forgettory. I forget, in between doing it, how tricky modelling and sculpting for dolls can be. I think, as I age, that I get much pickier. A shape … Continue reading
Dolls’ dolls and dolls’ dolls’ dolls (and some dolls.)
In the last week I finally cleared the decks and got busy sculpting some dolls. Sculpting is accurate as a term, also modelling. All the masters from which I make the moulds are made in Milliput. If you watch the … Continue reading