Meet Lilah. She is from a beautiful vinyl kit called Vivien, created by the talented Evelina Wosnjuk. Took me 2 days to paint her, I started in the afternoon of April 24th. Finished her face detailing, limbs, all blushed, and all creases the next day. Then I spent an hour painting her nails and shining her cute pouty lips the next day.This is the fastest I finished painting a doll. Way too excited to bring her alive, or 'lifelike'. So, basically 24 hours painting hours, which is pretty good, because Vivien kit is from the old batch which had an Orangey tone to it, so there had to be a few layers of paint to neutralized her first. I'm happy to see her baby face finally, and not just an empty vinyl doll kit.
Lilah is not for sale for the meantime, because I can't part with her (at least for now), this might sound crazy to a non doll people, I get attached to the dolls sometimes, I guess I'm a crazy doll lady. I'm okay with that. :) But there is another reason, it also because she has a booboo on her head due to an accident, I was distracted and didn't hear the timer. heat set paint is used for vinyl doll, so after each layer of paint, the doll goes into the oven to be heated for an exact 8 minutes, no more no less. So her head collapsed, I thought I ruined her totally, but it perked up again, only with a little bump on the top of her head. So to me that means I can't sell it because she is not 100% perfect (She is to me), although the bump will be covered by hair. So I'm moving on to the next doll for now, I'm not even going to do the rooting part since I'm keeping her anyway. In her photos she was using a Mohair wig. 😛
I hope you enjoy her photos, I loved photographing her, she is so photogenic. 🙂
