I've been spending a lot of time working on books recently, and thought I'd share a very special one. As many of you know, I spent fifteen years making hundreds of OOAK art dolls with my sister Marianne. We worked together from the late eighties, through the nineties, up until around 2005. She did all the sculpting, and I costumed and finished them.
We always went to great efforts to take nice photos of every single one, since it would be all that we'd have left after they sold. So we both had stacks of albums full of photos. Then last year she decided to put them all into one printed book. Since 99% of the dolls were made in the days before digital photography, she spent the entire year scanning in all the negatives, then spent months laying out the book.
She surprised me with a copy on my birthday a few months ago...
We always went to great efforts to take nice photos of every single one, since it would be all that we'd have left after they sold. So we both had stacks of albums full of photos. Then last year she decided to put them all into one printed book. Since 99% of the dolls were made in the days before digital photography, she spent the entire year scanning in all the negatives, then spent months laying out the book.
She surprised me with a copy on my birthday a few months ago...
It's a magnificent 245 page collection documenting every one of the hundreds of sculpted dolls we ever made. A true testament to Marianne's sculpting skills, and my costuming ability. So, I thought I'd take some photos to show a selection of some of our work...from our earlier figures...
...through our peak period....
...right to the end when we were struggling....
The photos aren't necessarily all my favourites, as I wanted to show a variety of our styles. I'm sure some of the costumes will seem familiar, as I've made copies of some of them for my ball-jointed dolls. In fact I wouldn't mind BJD versions of many of them. like those knights, and the ones from the Elizabethan and Rococo periods. Who knows! Maybe I still will some day.
(*Note - This book will not be offered up for pre-order, because at 246 pages the cost would be prohibitive. Even at a publisher's half price sale it would still be almost four times what people who have purchased my previous books are used to paying)
(*Note - This book will not be offered up for pre-order, because at 246 pages the cost would be prohibitive. Even at a publisher's half price sale it would still be almost four times what people who have purchased my previous books are used to paying)
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