After having a few near-panic attacks in the past week, I've decided to drop my Old English class. It's sad in a way because I found the material fascinating and I was so looking forward to reading Beowulf in its original Anglo-Saxon language, but the grammar required so much memorization, and with my thesis, my other class and the class I'm teaching (which requires sooooo much marking - basically thirty essays a week) I just couldn't manage it all and have any kind of a life left. Like the life where I make these little creatures...
The lighting wasn't great for this shot (it was almost six o'clock) so I'll have to get some better ones the next time I'm home during the day. But here's a little preview of my latest lady... I'm thinking I'll call her Zoe. She'll go in the shop later this weekend when I've managed to get some better photos. Over the weekend I also experimented with photoshop, trying to figure out a way to produce prints of my dolls that might be interesting. I came up with something like an old vintage photo or daguerreotype, and this is the first one I was happy with:
I'm playing around with the idea of prints because I know my dolls are often out many people's price range, and I want to keep some items in my shop that are more affordable. As a student, I myself couldn't afford my own dolls right now, so I'm torn between keeping things reasonably priced and always wanting to test myself, do more interesting and complicated constructions, which are inevitably more time-consuming and - alas - more expensive. I don't know if doll photography is really going to fly, but I thought I'd give it a shot and I had fun trying. I'll be adding a few more over the next few weeks, as well as some other prints of collages I've been experimenting with (pencil drawings combined with fabric.)Finally, as a little homage to the course I was sad to drop and hope to take sometime in the future when things aren't so hectic, I'm including an image of the first page of the original Beowulf. By all accounts it is a rollicking good time: knights, dragons, ogres, slayings...those Old English really knew how weave a good yarn...
My goodness - it all looks rather shocking, doesn't it? Poor Grendel - just trying to live a monstrous existence...
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