This is Valentina, my daughter wanted something different from the typical decorated shoe box for her Valentine cards last year, thus Valentina was created.
She was a lot fun to make, using paint and mediums I had already experimented with as well as many new ones and a lot of trial and error.
Her dress was an adventure all on it's own. I decoupaged a collage of printed paper for her bodice and created her under skirt using paper I shaped and then covered with the plaster webbing. My daughter painted the skirt with her own color selection. Lovely bright colors that needed a bit of toning down to go with the bodice. That is where the top layer came into play. I dyed and starched some cheesecloth strips and added a bit of sparkle with glitter. (just to tone down the color a bit.)
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| This was the first time I had used clay. To smooth her face over the paper mache. I had trouble with her nose and lips. |
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| I made her crown with newspaper lined with card stock and painted it. I really wanted that homemade crown look to it. |
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