Believe me when I say I stepped out of my comfort zone here... Dolls... I don´t know. I was a bit short on time doing today´s drawing, and kind of grabbed what I had in front of me. The colors started to go berserk already from the beginning, and I kept trying to save them for a while, but it all turned into mud in the end.
My father found this doll under the woodshed at our summer house when I was a kid and it has been with me ever since. It is really a sweet doll, but I think there must be a dark side to it. In certain angles she looks like a maniac with her psycho stare and pale face. I think she has a serious problem to relax...
8 x 12 cm, light pencil drawing and watercolors on a small Moleskine Watercolor page.
7 comments:
I think most dolls have that sinister quality, if you look at them in the right way. Or the wrong way. It's the glass eyes. I remember scaring myself when I was little by staring at myself in the mirror. Not that I have glass eyes. But enough about me, Nina ;D. This is a lovely watercolor and the muted (not muddy) colors of most of it are a brilliant foil for her vivid eyes.
LOL I see what you mean about the stare, LOL. (Dolls just give me the creeps in general, though.) But you did a wonderful job painting the doll! :)
your doll is well done with lovely brushwork...some dolls do have that scary appearance, like Laura says.
Ronell
Lovely color hues for the skin of the doll - not muddy, just really well done!
hohoho! I love your psycho doll! Like Laureline I also think that, looked at in a certain way, most dolls have a sinister side. It is probably because they just stare without blinking which is a pretty scary thing to see in another human being... I wonder who first came up with the idea that children would like to play with miniature human effigies!!!LOL
Jules.
I think the skin tones on the doll are lovely. I agree about the eyes, there's something not quite right about the eyes on any doll. Despite that, you've done a terrific job.
I had a doll like this onece - it got cracked and had to go to the doll hospital - it never came back and I didn't miss it at all.
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