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Category Archives: Dolls
Modelling dolls – all about bodies.
If you are going to model dolls sooner or later you have to get to grips with the human body, as it were. There is no question that the human body is the hardest thing to depict realistically in art. … Continue reading
More about Milliput, weighty considerations in doll and figure modelling.
JaneLaverick.com is thrilled to be mutually linked to the Milliput website. Milliput, as you may recall from a few posts ago, is a two part epoxy resin, developed for the automotive and plumbing (Plumber ho!) industries which is indispensible in … Continue reading
Busy work.
For the next few days I’m going to be endlessly rubbing down ten trays of 2 inch doll parts, that is to say parts for two inch dolls, which are, of course, considerably smaller than two inches. So I may … Continue reading
Pouring over my work.
I’m sorry if the postings are getting a bit late in the day. It’s work with a capital erk at present. I spent the last two days doing this: which doesn’t look like much at all, certainly not like something … Continue reading
Dagged.
When the web manager was four years old he was given a plastic retractable trick dagger. He went round poking things with the blade vanishing into the handle and every time he poked something he said ‘Dag’. It’s obvious when … Continue reading
New dolls are on the way. A snippet about modelling in Milliput.
I’m sorry if the postings are suffering from time slippage. The reason is that new dolls are on the way. Whilst this website has a representative selection of what I make, it’s not exhaustive. Many items appeared, were sold and … Continue reading
Lords and Ladies.
These are growing under my hedge today in great profusion, much to my annoyance as I have tried to eradicate them for the last 20 years. Although the beech hedge, which they love so much, has been planted only 30 … Continue reading
Midnight candle and the oil at both ends.
In the week before a show several interesting things happen. Time travel occurs with ease and frequency; you sit down to string dolls, whoosh, it’s midnight. Fool people with nothing better to do with their time steal yours for entertainment; … Continue reading
Bio porcelain diversity.
Here is a picture, an interesting picture. Can you see what it is, yet? One of the extreme joys of porcelain is opening the kiln on a new doll. You just don’t know what you’re going to find. After 17 … Continue reading
Knackerbockers.
There will be no Knickerbocker Glory this Friday, not even a lick of the spoon. It’s ten at night on Thursday and I’ve just stopped rubbing down porcelain, which I’ve been doing all day. I’m beyond knackered and need to … Continue reading