My Gritty Jane Dollie...

As I have written in the past, I took Gritty Art (Jane's) Cloth & Clay doll Workshop. Well, I have my dollie done and thought I would show pictures of her. Now, she is my first attempt at making a clay, over cloth dollie...
This is a badge Jane gave us to display on our blogs, if we wanted. So sweet. I love that dollie on the little badge.
This is the dollie, that Jane used to teach us in her online class. We could make one in likeness and then we can try to make a second dollie, by the time the class is over (A challenge Dollie), but I do not think I am going to have time. I have learned a lot and loved the class, and I will continue to dabble in clay. While I enjoy playing with clay, I must say, it is fun, but very time consuming. I wanted my dollie to look really olde...the cracking and peeling effect. Although it looks very neat in person, you can not see "capture" it in pictures very well.

I feel for my first cloth over clay dollie, I did pretty well and Lola, is a KEEPER! Yup, she is a labor of LOVE, my first dollie and I am keeping her. I had a heck of a time with re-constructing her face, after she took a nose dive and while we (our selves) are our hardest crictics, I can see things I could have done differently. In person Lola looks so pretty, I do not like the way she looks in these pictures...

I am pleased with her, because she is my very first clay/cloth dollie. I have always wanted to learn this technique and I have several books on this, they have all told the same thing as Jane, but the diffence was Jane showed it! I love watching and having visual aide.

I made a little paper flower garland for Lola to hang on to. There are little rusty bells for the centers. I have wired them to her hands...

And there are her little ballarina shoes. So very sweet. I had lots of fun adding them. She did not show that in class, but she had them on some of her other dollies and I thought they looked so sweet. I had FUN, but the old nerves got to me when I had to paint the face. The faces on my cloth dollies use too, but have done so many it does not bother me any more. This dollie was a challenge, but definately FUN! Thank you Jane.

I must get to work. I didn't get much done this weekend. I don't know if we will go out to the Home Makeover site today. They will finish up tonight/tomorrow and show The Devries tomorrow. I do not know what time. I have heard that you must have a purchased ticket for the reveal, but do not know if that is true. Toodles for now kiddies, ~Tonya