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Miss Winter 2014

1/2/2015

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Miss Winter 

A series of 12 seasonal pieces has been in the planning stages for awhile and I had created the first 3 figures and frames for Large Hoop Skirt dolls.  So, I was prepared when our miserable winter weather kicked in this week.  The first woman in the series expresses a bitter, server, unforgiving winter day.   I am still working out some refinements in the figure.  I love the hank of steel wool hair caught by the wind, but it may need to me modified.  I know it will need to be attached to her head!  I am playing with the idea of a shawl, but it needs to be more substantial than this scrap of lace.

My approach to the skirt design was much more literal than usual, but still quite abstract.  I am thinking here of trees bending in the wind, a dark overcast sky, just a skiff of dirty snow left on the ground, dead plants in the garden.  And did I say WIND?  Looking at the photograph now I can see a few spots where I will make a adjustments before I wash the quilted skirt to fray the collage and then mount it on the frame.  Then I'll move on the think about a beautiful winter day.
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