Bellanca and Back to the Drawing Board

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(6/3: I changed out images with pink background so as to more accurately show coloring of doll..previous images can still be viewed at my Flickr site)

Well here is one of my first dolls using fiber for hair instead of sculpting and painting it. This vegetable based fiber is gorgeous and soft however it does pose some problems. After sewing in the part on the wig, and gluing it in place, pieces were flying off even after gentle touching. I realized that I was not going to be able to use this for long hair. The only solution was to give her an updo so I gave her a modified chignon ~ I like the result but am just a tad disappointed I can't use it for a longer hairstyle (I think she would have looked a bit like Alice in Wonderland with that outfit and hair). Anyhow I have sent off for a variety of fiber samples and hopefully those will be easier to handle.

Bellanca with longer hair..the fiber was just too loose to leave long

I gave her a branch of peaches to hold  after seeing a  photo of a branch of apricots hanging from a house shutter on a home on the island of Majorca (off the Southern coast of Spain). The image (below) was so beautiful in it's lush simplicity that I knew I wanted her holding the same thing. I originally set out to make apricots (also made with polymer clay and acrylics) but when I finished they looked more like peaches..so peaches it is..

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Bellanca is approx. 11.75 inches from head to toe (29.85 cm). She is wearing a cotton dress made up of tiny blue-gray pin stripes and her capelet is in a soft black acrylic that ties in the front and is accented with a bee pin. Around her waist she wears a black velvet ribbon that ties in the back. Her shoes are painted black and her eyes are green.
Bellanca is the first Du Buh Du Doll to have '"hair" instead of a sculpted/painted coiffure. Her hair is made of soy silk (in a buttery blonde color) and is pulled up into a modified chignon in the back. I added three tiny pale pink roses made of acid free mulberry paper in her hair as extra adornment.
She is carrying a branch of peaches, each fruit is hand sculpted by me from polymer clay (just as my dolls are) and painted with acrylics and a protective varnish.
Please note that my dolls always vary in size and while these are approx. the same size as my previous doll they have slightly larger heads as I find this size even more agreeable to work with:)

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above photo by S. Santos from "Majorca:the Art of Living"