myling

more porcelain body parts

I tried out some more moulds yesterday. I'm still very fascinated by all the casting and mould making!

......15 slipcast moulds later!

I can't believe it, almost. I'm finished with making the moulds of my new doll! I made the last one yesterday, and although I've been slaving away with this for about a month, I felt a little strange when I poured the last mould part...
And here they all are! I'm so proud of them!

And the prototype-doll is all finished and coated with shellac (for protection against the plaster when making the moulds).

I'm a little unsure of what to do with this prototype-girl! Right now she is resting in this cardboard box at school....

First from new moulds!

My new moulds are working! I tried casting from the two plaster moulds that were dry enough today. I'm so happy about this. Happy and excited! And very tired.
I love, love, love my new girl!

I cast two heads and two upper bodies that are drying now. Sister dolls?
They will be soft fired and cleaned next.

Mouldy me

I have been very busy making moulds in school this week. So enjoyable!
These moulds are of my latest doll-girl; my biggest, tallest girl. It has been really great to scale things up: she will be a giant among my other dolls!

...and here she is a few weeks a go, before the mould making started...

I'm so fascinated by this whole process! I live in a mouldy doll bubble right now, it's great!

I just realized....

...while uploading photos to my albums here, how much I like this photo! Photo by Annalena in my class.

A Strange Day

It was late one foggy and not very creative day, when suddenly I started building this blog-thing. I've been meaning to for almost a year; and since I decided that this will be the spring when I finally start getting things done, I thought I should start doing this, too...
Tomorrow I'm going to school, to work on my latest doll girl, and I really can't wait! I need to finish her now so that I can start making the moulds and casting.
Casting seems to be addictive, by the way... Be warned!
It's all I can think about these days.