Something a little different today: a glimpse into the creative process that went into one of our models.
First there was the box……which, after a bit of rearranging, became a double room.I decided to send Alice through the looking glass, but this was the only girl doll I could find.So she needed a makeover…This is as close as I could get to Tenniel’s original illustrations.I knew the bits of foam packaging from a set of roller blinds would come in handy sometime.With a few sawn up oak twigs and a battery tea light, Alice soon had fireplaces.Some card and lace trim made the mantlepieces. Time-consuming to make two of everything!The clocks had to look the same from the back, of course…… but quite different from the front. Everything was true to Lewis Carroll’s text and John Tenniel’s pictures.I used polymer clay and jewellery findings for the fire irons. The white knight needs to slide down the poker.Imagine how long it took to set up and glue down the pieces. White is about to catch Alice in fool’s mate.In Looking-Glass House, though, the pieces are wandering two by two around the fireplace. A bishop is sitting on a log, reading a broadsheet…… and a white pawn called Lily has fallen over on the table and is screaming for her mother.A shadowy Alice can be seen climbing through the mirror from the completed drawing room…… and emerging in Looking -Glass House.Of course both rooms fit neatly into the box to make a perfect little set.
Steampunk - Shrunk! 