Spring Workshop

Here we go! A post about our Spring Workshop with the delightful, multi-talented Ms. Sherry Goshon. (click on her name for her website)

Sherry designed a mixed-medium doll just for our workshop. She designs her own face molds and her husband casts them. Isn't it beautiful? This was our inspiration for our own projects. The bar was set high, yes?

We started with making a "bird-cage" from scratch. It was messy and fun!

 The body and arms are cloth, sewn & stuffed. It will rest on top of the cage, which works as her skirt. Keep going, you'll see how it all comes together.

In addition to the plaster stuff, we learned about working with face molds, mod-podge, and illusion costuming.

Take a few measurements, free-hand draw a pattern, cut and sew the sleeves and skirt. The body is covered with mod-podged bits of pretty tissue paper or napkins.

Sherry demonstrated drawing the eyes and painting the face.

We don't want to give all of Sherry's lessons away! You can take her classes at CIFI, her Reno or Iowa Retreats, or perhaps an online class.

At our April meeting, we had three finished dolls visit us for Show & Tell.

 This is Jack's pretty in purple lady.

 Her cage-skirt encases a real plant.

 Pam's little beauty. Her cage-skirt surrounds a lovely flower arrangement with tiny birds.

 Carlyn's pattern printed out a little smaller than it should have, but she went with it!

 Notice the bodice? How carefully she cut around the picture on a napkin for this pretty effect.

 Her imagination took over and she was inspired by the tiny waist of the doll to make her a spider-woman. Love that "Hunger Games" blue hair!

 Connie's doll is called Pandora because inside her cage-skirt is a mysterious box. Of course, she had to open it. Nothing terrible came out. In fact, we shouldn't have been surprised to discover a stash of fabric was hidden in the box!

We had a great time with Sherry and hope to see more of the workshop dolls at our May meeting. But in the next post, we do have some other Show&Tell from April to look at, so check back soon!