There is a challenge going on at the Maida dolls group, to make an "Alabama baby" doll. This was billed as an "indestructable" doll, made from around 1905 to the early thirties.
Image from Theriault's - hope they don't mind
I looked at several of the doll photos online, and was all set to go....I sculpted a head using Paperclay, trying to get her little turned up nose
and the jowly cheeks; but I didn't have a firm grasp of the eyes...or the mouth...
so I ended up sculpting them more like this:
Image from Skinner auction site. This is a Philadelphia Baby!
so I ended up sculpting them more like this:
Image from Skinner auction site. This is a Philadelphia Baby!
My sculpt
So I have to change her face later, if I am to call her an Alabama Baby doll....
Hope everyone is having a good Holidays.
Hope everyone is having a good Holidays.
