Martha & Marianne Art Dolls
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 (2022) 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.
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 (2022) 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.
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.
(*Note - This book will not be offered up for pre-order, because at 246 pages the cost would be prohibitive for most people. Even at a publisher's half price sale it would still be almost four times the cost of most of my other books)
(*Note - This book will not be offered up for pre-order, because at 246 pages the cost would be prohibitive for most people. Even at a publisher's half price sale it would still be almost four times the cost of most of my other books)
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