Display table of 2010 show, 1st half

Here is the first group of amazing dolls on display at the Indy Cloth Dollmakers 8th Annual Art Doll Show and Sale.


When you walked into the library auditorium, this is what you saw!

Harlequin and Columbine, made by Ann C., based on a Mary Tressler pattern

Here is last year's People's Choice by Leslie (original), and a Pam Grose gargoyle by Julie G.

Also by Ann C., a wooden 'antique' doll, from a pattern in a 1950's magazine

Walking around the table, you find the GwynnEllen fairy class dolls

After the fairies were 4 dolls from last May's Herb Challenge

Cloth-Over Fairy Faces

As promised, our October meeting show-and-tell had some finished fairies from Leslie's September workshop.  For her class, Leslie not only designed an original fairy body.  She also sculpted a head for the body from scratch, and then made a mold of the head, and then made copies of the head for everybody in the class.  Then they covered their fairy heads with cloth to match the bodies and colored them.

Nita's purple, green, and teal fairy has beautiful details everywhere you look!

Julie G.'s fairy has a more wild and windblown woodland look!

We'll have more pictures in a week or so, when the library display case goes up.  Don't forget to check out the show and sale info on the tab at the top!

Leslie's GwynnEllen class

For our September meeting, Leslie created a original fairy doll to teach some new techniques, especially a cloth-overlay on a clay face.  Quite a few dollmakers journeyed to Leslie's house, where she hosted the two-day workshop.

Check out these work-in-progress pictures!

a picture from early in the class from Julie W.

Julie G.'s nearly finished fairy, sporting angelina wings

check out Martha's tattoos!

Nita's demure fairy hair-do

    


Katie's berry fairy



Ann R.'s rainbow fairy, sitting on her own custom leaf



We are missing pictures from two class members. Denise could only attend the first day of the weekend workshop, and therefore missed the group photo below. And Lauren, who is not a member (yet?), but who by all accounts did an outstanding job on her first doll ever in this class!

a group shot - Ann R., Martha, Julie G., Nita, Katie, Leslie, and Julie W.

Check back later for show-and-tell pictures of the finished dolls.  I'm sure we'll see them all completely done by the November Show.  (and if you believe that...)