Bindweed Studio

I must be on a roll lol, I've finished yet another piece that had been hanging around for awhile. He is my entry for the International Art Doll Registry March show - Garden and Flower Fairies, so wish me luck!

For anyone wondering who won the last IADR show - the brilliant winning entries were by Larysa Champagne and Ksheyna Nightswood, congratulations to both!

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I finally got around to finishing my BellaDonna fairy. I decided to sit her on a 'stone' as there would have been to much green if I had used the original base that I had intended.

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Well, I decided that BellaDonna just didn't look quite 'toxic' enough, so I stripped all the paint off her and repainted her again.. She now has a greenish skin tone with lots of purple and green mottling and looks much more how I first imagined her to be. I've also added more foilage to her dress and the backs of her wings

I've started work on the base and she should be finished in a day or two.
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I finally finished sculpting her, and now she is dressed in leaves and flowers, wigged with dark purple mohair and has purple wings. I am a little annoyed with myself as before I started her I googled Belladonna flowers and two different types of flowers came up in the results - the purple and yellow flowers that I have used and also a darker pink flower - I went with the purple flower as that was always what I though Belladonna or deadly Nightshade looked like - and now I have found out that actually the flowers that I have made are Woody Nightshade - d'oh! I had to make her berry red rather than the dark purple I was planning as Woody Nightshade has red berries. Not really sure if I should still call her BellaDonna really, but I like the name so BellaDonna it is! 

She is almost done now - all I have left to do is her base.

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I've got a little further with her, she now has a torso, one leg complete with foot and half the other leg.

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While waiting for some wing making supplies to arrive, I decided to start on another piece. Her name is BellaDonna and she will be a Deadly Nightsahde fairy. 

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His costume is now complete, the blackberries and leaf and bramble stems are fully removable (they took a fair bit of thought and experimentation to make them so they are durable yet flexible to work as intended). Overall I'm pleased with the result. Just his wings to make now, and I'm currently waiting for some supplies to arrive before I can make a start on them.

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I've started work on a new male fairy - his name is Thorn and he is a bramble/blackberry fairy. So far I'm really pleased with how he's coming along.

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As I mentioned in my previous post, I started this piece ages ago. I've reworked the crow a little, and have made a totally new rider, and it is finally finished! It's been a nightmare trying to take some decent pictures of it as its not the easiest piece to photograph.

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