Hive Creative Challenge - Cathy, Wuthering Heights

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer -
A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

[....} ~Robert Burns 

If you've been in Scotland in Autumn, you will sympathize with this ballad. The moors are covered in heather and the colors change every few minutes, with the weather. One minute sunny, then sudden rain and amazing rainbows.

My new doll is my interpretation of Cathy from Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë, 1847) when she was happy and alive, running around the moors picking heather to adorn her home in Autumn.


7-3/8" inches tall, paperclay with handmade eyes.
She is all articulated and she can freely sit or stand and assume any arm and legs movement.
She carries a bunch of heather as well as a basket of it. Her dress is non removable but she also has a velvet hooded cloak for the cold days.

More pictures can be seen on my gallery at www.flickr.com/photos/marilenz

Wednesday on Sunday

I know I made a Wednesday Addams doll before but this one is a different version with a fancier outfit (thus the Sunday reference) than the usual "week days" black one with a white collar. She also carries a doll instead of a spider like my previous one.
She is 6.5 inches tall, hard sculpt (Paperclay), handmade eyes, real stockings (fabric), sculpted shoes. Her dolly is jointed (can sit and move arms up and down) and it's a bit over 2 inches tall.
More photos on my flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/marilenz 

New doll: the Bride of Frankenstein

I think this is my favourite of all my dolls! It's not even a "doll" in the strict sense because I consider "doll" the one that has all movable parts and this one only has jointed arms/neck but she can only sit and her legs are stiff. So she is a half figurine, but I really love her!

I so suck as a photographer :-( I don't know what's the matter. I also got a pretty good camera. Maybe I should real the manual!
Anyway, the B of F is made of Paperclay and painted with acrylics. Her dress is not removable, her arms are jointed by the shoulders and elbows. Her head turns sideways, her hair is mohair.
She is 10 inches in her sitting position. Full pictures can be see on my Flickr gallery.
Now Halloween can come..........

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And here is the inspiration although I was thinking more of  the most recent version by Helena Bonham Carter
(Frankenstein by Kenneth Branagh, 1994)

Most my dolls

I spent a while making this collage of doll faces for posting on my page in the Hive but for unknown reasons the photo is showing as a broken icon. I can see the preview OK but then it won't load on my page :-(
So I decided to post it here just for the sake of it! After spending all this time working on it, I have to show it off! :-)

Another Streghina to get in the Halloween mood...

Halloween is really far away, isn't it? And Autumn is not even at the horizon here in Florida....... but who cares! Let's pretend...... and here's yet another witchling for my content :-)
I like her a lot. I should call myself a doll-mom instead of a doll-maker because I really don't want to part from my dolls....... it's so hard to let them go to their new homes......

This streghina can turn her head sideways and she is jointed at the shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips and knees.
She is made of Paperclay and her corset dress is pretty neat. I still can't figure my camera out and I have a hard time showing off details.  Her hat is pretty cool too and all hand-stitched like her non-removable dress.

I should take photography lessons next.......