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I can’t believe that we’re already at the last week of the exhibition Intimate Images of Love and Loss: Portrait Miniatures. Once the show closes this Sunday, October 31, these incredible, tiny masterpieces go back into Museum storage. In a world before photography, portrait miniatures were the wallet photographs or their day. Made to be…
I know, I know. The year isn't over yet! Each year, I take this stance and allow December to roll on by before I start thinking about "best of" sets but by January that party is over. Everyone is on to workout motivation and goal setting. So I'm getting a jumpstart on rem
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Downtown Las Vegas definitely is one of my top favorite places for portraits. I love the restaurants and neat bars. I love the grit and the grime. I love the neon and vintage vibes. I love the attitude and how everything is always changing. I have my favorite alleyways, murals and nooks. Sometimes murals are painted over and bars change ownership or are boarded up, but that's part of the beauty of change. There is always something different and interesting in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada and
Betty's painting completed! I love this. Please click on it so you can see the subtle details in her smaller elements. A terrific self-port...
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As portrait photography is my favorite and specialized field, I recently stumbled on long exposure portrait photography. This variant of portrait photography
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Μουσική: Μάνος Χατζιδάκις, Στίχοι: Νίκος ΓκάτσοςΑπό τον κύκλο τραγουδιών: "Επιστροφή" (1970)Πρόκειται για τον πρώτο δίσκο με καινούργια τραγούδια του σπουδαί...
Just after finishing Cissy in Aqua, I launched into a project that would test my "slipping" skill set after joyfully using someone else's patterns, and on a much larger doll. But, it was simply something that I had to do as a gift for a special friend. Creating Huguette Clark as a portrait doll was pure inspiration at the onset. Back in December I learned about this upcoming auction through Theriault's of Annapolis, Maryland, that would offer to the world, for the first time, the doll collection of Huguette Clark, the copper heiress. It would be held in Santa Barbara, California, the home of the Clark's summer home. My friend, Heather, would be attending this come hell or highwater, and it was through this she had to go to get there. She'd had some health issues that threatened to prevent her from attending, but I know she would have crawled there if it was the only option. Not wishing to interfere or be a pest, I did not offer to take her there, and only found out after that she had hoped I'd offer! She did attend, and by the end of the auction, she would become known as the Queen of Bleuette, for having won a bidding war with a Japanese collector bidding online, for Huguette's Bleuette. She also won a gorgeous Rosette, both dolls complete with trousseaus, and I was thrilled to pieces for her. Heather is one of the foremost collectors of Bleuette dolls and owns one of every mold, antiques all. And, now she owns the prized Bleuette doll once owned by Huguette Clark. During this time, I'd picked up the book Empty Mansions that was written by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newall, Jr., a biography on W.A. Clark, Huguette's father, and "the mysterious life of Huguette Clark and spending the great American fortune". The book was wonderfully entertaining and followed W.A.'s rags to riches story that began in the late 1800's. I won't spoil it for you should you like to read it. I typically don't read non-fiction, but I was enthralled by the story. And, utterly charmed by the life story of Huguette Clark, a sensitive and artistically talented child born in Paris, France, on June 9, 1906. She took on a very private, and very reclusive life in later years, and died on May 24, 2011. It was my inspiration and task to treat Heather to a portrait doll of Huguette and her favorite Jumeau doll (which was also sold at auction), to commemorate the auction event, her wins, and celebrate the life of a dear little girl who loved dolls. I spent a good deal of time researching Huguette (pronounced hew-get), and photographs of her, and chose to work from what may now be the most famous one, at least among doll collectors, of the child and her doll Suzette. I had a 12" Wendy Lawton Prim and Proper in my stash with a brown wig and pink eyes, and one of the two remaining 2 1/2" mini Bleuettes that an acquaintance made for me what seems like a millennium ago. That was about the only luck I had in creating the doll. The first task was to see if I could made a doll close in resemblance. The only saving grace was that this was a gift and not a commission, so if the doll didn't come out "perfect", so what. Right? This is just one of the reasons I don't sell my work. Paying patrons can be a real pain in the popo. If its free, why complain? And, I only do this kind of work for friends. The first piece I attempted to make was the blouse. I'd been studying this portrait of Huguette daily. At first glance, a person sees a white blouse and striped jumper on a blonde girl with her hair pulled back. Sounds easy? Well the blouse is actually a dolman sleeved blouse with a winged collar. Try looking that one up for examples. None to be found. Lots of dolman sleeved garments, but no blouses like this. I also half suspect that this may have been a dress with the bodice of the blouse attached at the hem of the bodice. This was my take on it, and I was going to try this, but after a week or two of trying to make this garment, I chose to make them separately. The blouse pattern took me no less than a week to design with several mock ups. I simply could not figure it out after the easy peasy days of patterns for Cissy. I was terribly frustrated, but still determined and pushed through it. There were a lot of "sleep on it" moments, then I tried a collar that would have a facing that ran down the front of the blouse. I'd studied patterns of just collars, but they were mostly for men's shirts. At any rate, I designed a one piece dolman sleeve pattern, a collar that attaches to the neckline, then a long collar pattern for the facing that is cut on the fold. The other thing is that when you line the blouse with the facing on a pattern such as this, you have extra width in the back. I solved this by sewing in one long fold-over pleat down the back. It could have been split and sewn, but this was neater. The next task was to create the jumper. I purchased no less than six different striped fabrics in royal blue and white, and navy blue and white. The best stripe was not 1/2" or 1/4", but something in between and not quite 3/8". This fabric was also whispery, probably rayon, and was difficult to work with. I was also pained by the color. A portrait like Huguette's was done in oils. When you look at it, you see the color cream. Was this the true color for both her dress and the doll's? Who knows? Paintings are also sealed and this sealer often yellows. Not only that, but the artist may have painted with the "warmth of the sun" in reflection that would also make the colors not so stark, but softer, creamier in color. I had to wing it. Interpret it. The bodice is a two piece band that the little straps are set into both in the front and back. They needed to be positioned and sewn in between the two pieces. This was frustrating in both length of strap and positioning and many seams were undone and resewn in the process. Interpreting this dress again, the bodice does not come down to the natural waist, but is almost "empire". The skirt then needed to be attached with the opening in front. One of these days I will try this entire pattern again and see if I can attach the blouse where the skirt attaches to the bodice, but that's for another day, and another doll. All this attaching wasn't a problem, but the length of the bodice kept needing to be shortened to get the empire look, and the skirt was often too wide, too many gathers and pouf (another Cissy setback), an the length needed to be correct. (While the photos don't really show this, the skirt does come mid knee.) I can't tell you how many times I've had to do something over because the skirt was too short. So I made it a little longer to be on the safe side. I also did something I don't normally do, and that was not lining the skirt. I hand hemmed it. With nice, neat tiny stitches. And, guess what? The skirt was too long. Back to photos of Huguette and the length of her dresses! Just below or to mid knee. So I carefully pulled all the stitches out and discovered that rayon runs. There were three distinct runs, like pantyhose runs, in the fabric. Once a needle goes into fabric, its there forever. So off the skirt came, and the second one got lined with a thin, white batiste. It may not be readily noticeable, but I did get the arrow point at the center of the bodice in there. I also had some prized vintage teeny tiny mother of pearl shank buttons that I sacrificed for this project. They have been used on Louise Godey's costuming and I think the sleeves of Alice Liddell. I still have some left, so that's nice. They're terribly hard to come by. Buttons. Well they sure do look blue in the painting, don't they? They are not. That is the reflection of the sky in mother of pearl. Or color picked up for the blue in the dress, shadow and light. Mother of pearl also has its own rainbows in the shell. If I were not a painter, I would not know these things, so it is helpful. Huguette's human hair wig was restyled. The bangs were trimmed and the hair was pulled back in two sections. At the top and lower at the neck. I like to use the tiny clear rubberbands to begin with, then use sewing thread to tightly wrap the hair in place. Rubberbands disintegrate over time and thread lasts. He hair is then topped with a silk satin white bow. I made her little black shoes with cotton ribbon bows. I would have liked to have made them from patent leather, but its hugely expensive per hide if you can find it. The tiny doll, Suzette, was dressed in white batiste, as close to the doll's dress worn in the Theriault's photo as possible. Dress pleats and lace. White leather shoes and socks. Even wee bloomers. She was wigged with blonde mohair. I haven't dressed a miniature in quite awhile and would like not to have to do this anytime soon again. But, it went well and only took a day. I was tickled to pieces that the doll arrived on Heather's doorstep much earlier today than expected. I think she's pleased. Below are some lovely photos I found of Huguette Clark and also with her sister Andree (hyphen over the first e). Isn't it fun that they had sister dresses? There are two photos with Huguette and her father, W.A. Clark. Rather "Mark Twain" looking! And, one of the doll Suzette, from which I worked. My favorite photograph is that of Huguette with her daddy, wearing the indian headdress. I was so very tempted to do this one. Now, back to sewing some Hitty doll garment pieces for another friend of mine. We shall return to Cissy soon! Love, Melissa
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Kelowna and Okanagan wedding photographer, Jessica Zais, specializes in wedding & portrait photography with a natural feel. Based in Kelowna, BC, est 2008.
