So, as promised, a weekly update of the progress I've made this week :)
At first, I've ordered new marabou feathers last week, they arrived and are gorgeous! I'm very pleased with them, now I have a very colorful group of pixies!
Say cheese!
12 down, 18 more to go @.@
I'm planning to put 10 of them per day (3 days) at my booth so we'll see with how many I end up after Castlefest. All the dolls that didn't find a new home at Castlefest will be in my Etsy store.
My mother in law gave me a few old teacups to work with and I have a lot of fun things in mind for them!
There was one cup that was a little broader than the others and I think it makes a perfect bathtub for a troll!
This is the broad cup I'm talking about :)
A work in progress!
This looks REALLY silly :D
I'm testing out size and composition here, after this I start shaping it to look more like a troll.
Ha! I can recognize a troll now! :D
At this stage he is baked and almost fully painted.
I've painted the spoon a dark brown so it looks like a wooden spoon.
I'm still working on his hair to make it look wet, but at the moment I'm not sure if he will keep his hair or if I'll just leave him bold with a few bubbles on his head..
We'll see!
This resin is colored with food coloring and curing as we speak. I don't have any experience whatsoever with resin so I'm testing it out first.
I don't want to think about messing up the troll and the teacup!
So that's one teacup troll so far! I have 5 more to test out :)
My mother in law also had a old glass pumpkin that she was not using anymore, so yay! More fun stuff to work with!
At the start of this week I tried out a new medium, called Gesso. It's actually a primer for paintings but it also works pretty good to color glass :D
I tried it out on two old glass bottles. I've made one white and one purple, added rope, beads and feathers of our aviary birds. I think they turned out pretty good for a first try!
As for the pumpkin, I've colored the glass orange and green.
But I'm not telling what I have in mind for it, yet, you'll see! ;-)
A personal project I'm working on are... dreadlocks!
Whaaaa!!!
I'm so in love with dreads and wanted them for god knows how long, but too much of a chicken to take the step and put them in my hair ._.
After some searching on the interwebs I found a material called Kanekalon Jumbo Braid, loose hair you can braid, or twist into dreadlocks!
You can put them in your hair and it will not be permanent. So it's ideal to test out!
I'm planning to try it out this week, just placed the order so fingers crossed!
So these are all the updates I have for you, I hope you have a wonderful week! ;D
Oooo, I like your blog! And the tea cup troll is awesome. I love the bubbles idea on his head! Maybe drape some over the lip of the cup. Your possibilities are endless as you create his world! Keep up the fabulous work!
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