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Welcome to the latest edition of Australian Dolls, Bears and Collectables. This issue we have some wonderful projects to challenge your skills and artistry, including painting a modern porcelain doll, reborning a delightful clown, and reborning a cute piglet. In addition, our bear artists will be happy with our two divine bear projects. There’s a gorgeous feature on Lesley Hurford’s favourite dolls (of which there are many!), plus we look at an amazing 18th century porcelain sculpture exhibition, which is on show at National Gallery Victoria International until December. We’re thrilled to bring you two inspiring profiles – Jane Davies, who designs and sculpts exquisite dolls, and Bev Loraine, with her marvellous doll museum. There’s also a handy list of upcoming shows for your diaries. If you’re a show organiser,…
Dear Editor Thank you for the Jingles project! (Jingles, created by Coral Gabriel, issue DBC 22.4). He is such a cuddly-looking chap. I chose a very similar coloured piece of mohair as in your magazine, however I used darker (in fact nearly black) material for the paws. I called my boy George. Jillian, WA. Ed: Hi Jillian. George sounds adorable! Please email us a photograph so we can share it with our readers. Dear Ed Sometimes the timing is just right! I was reading your magazine and left it open while I went to make us a cup of tea, and when I came back my husband was actively looking at the page with the doll’s carry case project. (Creating a Doll’s Carry Case, by Lee-Anne Carpenter, issue DBC 22.4).…
Australian sculptor Alicia Toner has been busy yet again, producing a gorgeous little preemie baby called Briar. She is a tiny little thing, measuring only 15”. She has three-quarter arms and full legs, and looks so cute with her little tongue just visible as she peacefully sleeps. Seems like Alicia is on a roll, producing more and more gorgeous babies as the months roll by. Further to our comments regarding Jade Warner’s pup, she is now with the manufacturers as I write this. She is a very detailed boxer dog, and would suit both painting without hair rooting or hair rooting the whole body and just painting the nose, mouth et cetera. I cannot wait to get my hands on this gorgeous little dog. Adrie Stoete is another prolific sculptor,…
I was invited to attend the Japanese Teddy Bear Festival this year in Tokyo. I was very excited and booked an air ticket together with 2 of my non bear artist friends would be travelling with me. Both of them like art and craft like me so they decided to join me on this trip. I had met a couple of the artists online who would also be participating in this show and we were all so excited to be able to eventually meet in person. There were a few artists who were not trading at this year’s show but were still visiting. They came to see me and brought me little gifts like Japanese cherry blossom cakes, cute stationaries and lovely boxes of candies. It was such a lovely…
If you have ever visited Bev’s doll museum in Victoria’s La Trobe Valley, you have probably emerged filled with wonder. Bev Loraine, with her Wonderworld of Dolls, has been inspiring visitors for six years now, and never tires of it. “I’ve met some lovely people from the tourist buses from Melbourne,” Bev says. “People love to see the dolls they had as a child or have lost. There is always lots of nostalgia and reminiscing.” Bev’s collection of more than 1,000 pieces is made up of dolls from the late 1800s to the 1990s. Many are from Germany, France and England. In addition, some of the dolls are from Australian manufacturers. Bev has porcelain, ragdoll, celluloid, papier-mache, composition, vinyl and plastic dolls in her collection. She remarks that the older…
MATERIALS Doll: Cookie from Bountiful Baby Cookie is the size of a nine-month-old baby Porcelain or ceramic well palette (don’t use plastic as it reacts with the Genesis oil paints) Small 1 ounce jars suitable for Genesis paint storage or mixing or thepaletteabove Genesis Heat Set Paints including Seacrist Strawberry Premixed Blush, Flesh 08 Bountiful Baby Vein Blue Premix Bountiful Baby Nail Tip Premix Tube of Genesis Metallic Gold Genesis Dioxazine Purple 04 Genesis Air Dry Gloss Varnish MatteSealer Glazing Gel Thinning Gel Odourless Solvent Paddle pop sticks for loading paint onto your palette or jar and paint mixing Secrist Deluxe 5 brush for eyebrows Maxine’s Mop Brush 1/4” 3 x Maxine’s Mop 1/2” Maxine’s Mop Brush 3/4” #1 round brush Thin brush for doing veins Thin brush for…
