Pouring porcelain slip into plaster molds.
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Cleaning and preparing the Silver Vertebrae Pendant
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The free flowing pendant has 16 vertebrae and 15 joints. It’s always dancing while I’m wearing it or when I can’t stop playing with it. In the video it goes through a patina process and then cleaned in a magnetic tumbler and then a rotary tumbler to give it that nice shine. The pendants are available in Silver and in Bronze
Signing the Enchanted Doll books
A short video of me signing and stamping the Enchanted Doll Publisher Edition book
Read MoreWater Lotuses
Still making many tiny beaded water lotuses. The repetition of construction without seeing any evidence of the final composition is getting a bit tedious after a few weeks of making these.
Read MoreEnchanted Doll Book - Publisher Edition
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This signed and numbered limited edition of 500 covers the first decade of work of Enchanted Doll, 190 pages, hard bound, high quality offset printing on heavy art paper.
Read MoreSerenity
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Finishing this porcelain beautify ‘Serenity’ for an eBay auction later this fall!
Read MoreTheodora Rex: From circus dancer to Empress-Saint.
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Empress Theodora was a truly remarkable, accomplished, influential and impressive woman. She is a Byzantine-age feminist icon, a progressive reformer, and a real life Cinderella story!
Read MoreLittle Red Riding Hood lost in the forest.
I’ve been working on a Little Red photo series to illustrate and publish one of my favourite fairy tales!
Read MoreTheodora’s Gown Construction
Abandoning several months of work and starting over from scratch was a very hard decision to make, but it had to be done, sunk cost fallacy be damned!! I’ll talk more about why I made this decision in upcoming posts.
Stand by for more unveiling and enjoy!
“Reincarnation” crown on the White Peacock doll
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“Reincarnation” crown on the White Peacock doll. I made and shot this piece a few months ago in grief and in celebration of the life, to get through a terrible and painful loss that I’ve been stuck in.
Read MoreTexturing a canvas print
exturing a canvas print with layers of transparent gel, to make it look like an expressionist oil painting.
Read MoreSnowstorm
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My last photo series of 2022, with my current work-in-progress doll, Theodora.
Read MoreTheodora Glows in the Golden Hour.
I’m applying hundreds of shiny scales to her royal robe, to resemble the golden Byzantine mosaics in churches
Read MoreEmpress Theodora of Constantinople
looking very Elvish on my work table. I think she is channeling the radiant Lady Arwen at the moment, bathed in the light of the Ilúvatar.
Read More“Rebirth and Reincarnation” Reliquary
I painted a celestial veil of shimmering stars on her face and in her eyes, to symbolize a vast and timeless glittering multiverse of endless cosmic possibilities.
Read MoreNew face of Peacock post accident
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The Original head was painted after my Sapphire doll. After I dropped and fractured it, I took it as a sign
Read MoreLosing Self
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A mournful photo series titled “Losing Self”. For one to be born, the first one had to die. Destruction is a form of creation.
Read MoreHair styling for White Peacock.
I use only natural fibres such as Mohair, Angora Goat and Silk for my dolls’ wigs; Never synthetics, as I just don’t like the synthetic aesthetic and I don’t think it suits fine porcelain very well.
Read MoreWhite Peacock
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The White Peacock is now SOLD. Her enormous white tattoo on a white porcelain body was quite a challenge to render, but I’m very proud of the result
Read MoreWhite Peacock Rising!
First studio shots with more to come. A special custom commission for a special collector, this porcelain doll features the biggest ceramic engraving I’ve ever attempted!
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