I Had To Revise My Beautiful Mixed Media Victorian Mannequin Faced Art Dolls - Penelope, Pauline, and Page

I just love looking at pictures from museums displaying Victorian dresses on mannequins or headless dress forms and back in September of 2014 I wanted to create some mannequin dolls of my own.  So, back then I decided to combine my mixed media Victorian collage art dolls with mannequin faces. That meant they had to have the shape of a head and indentures of a face, but nothing painted.

Penelope, Pauline, and Page are a trio of sisters who are are the epitome of fashion elegance.  They are meticulous as to the details of their outfits and never leave the house without being perfectly attired.

Initially I was happy with the way Penelope, Pauline, and Page had turned out (as shown in the picture above) as I had never sculpted mannequin faces before and, as you all know, LOVE faceless dolls.  Over time and as I learned more about painting faces I decided I'd like to see how they looked with faces so I decided to revise them as shown in the picture at the top of this post.

Penelope is the doll shown on the left in the 2nd picture from the top of this post above.  Here's how she used to look:

Here's how she looks now:

Penelope - 1 3/4" x 4" x 12" Handmade Mixed Media Victorian Collage Art Doll 

Penelope is a 1 3/4" x 4" x 12" mixed media Victorian wood doll with a paper-clay sculpted and painted face, blushed cheeks, sponge painted wood body, paper collage and embellished outfit. Her paper-clay sculpted and painted face has painted eyebrows, paper and painted eyes, painted eyelids, and paper and painted lips. Her sides and back are sponge painted and black and white her outfit is an embellished paper collage adorned with white trim around her neck. Her paper collage dress has a two layer center band adorned with red raised dots and fancy lace trim with silky pearls and purple silk ribbon floral embellishments. Her collage dress has a two layer waistband with red raised dots, lace trim, and burgundy ribbon decorations. Her dress skirt is three layers. Her hands are paper gloved.

A beautiful burgundy fringed lace shawl is wrapped around her shoulders and adorned with a large purple silk floral. Her burgundy thick dyed alpaca yarn hair from Rock Garden Alpacas Fiber is wrapped in a bun and adorned with beautiful white decorative lace trim. Black and white ribbon is wrapped around her sponge painted wooden base. A colorful 4 silk floral bouquet adds charm to both the front and back of her base.

Pauline is the doll shown in the center of the 2nd picture from the top of this post above.  Here's how she used to look:

Here's how she looks now:

Pauline - 1 3/4" x 4" x 12" Handmade Mixed Media Victorian Collage Art Doll 

Pauline is a 1 3/4" x 4" x 12" mixed media Victorian wood doll with a paper-clay sculpted and painted face, blushed cheeks, sponge painted wood body, paper collage and embellished outfit. Her paper-clay sculpted and painted face has painted eyebrows, paper and painted eyes, painted eyelids, and paper and painted lips. Her sides and back are sponge painted and her outfit is an embellished paper collage adorned with white trim around her neck. Her paper collage dress has a two layer center band adorned with green raised dots and fancy lace and ribbon trim. Her collage dress has a two layer waistband with green raised dots. Her dress skirt is four layers. Her hands are paper gloved.

A beautiful light green fringed lace shawl is wrapped around her shoulders and adorned with a large green silk floral. Her gray thick dyed alpaca yarn hair from Rock Garden Alpacas Fiber is wrapped in a bun and adorned with beautiful white decorative lace trim. A blue feather boa is wrapped around her neck.Green and white ribbon is wrapped around her sponge painted wooden base. A colorful 4 silk floral bouquet adds charm to both the front and back of her base.

Page is the doll shown ion the left side of the 2nd picture from the top of this post above.  Here's how she used to look:

Here's how she looks now: 

Page - 1 3/4" x 4" x 12" Handmade Mixed Media Victorian Collage Art Doll 

Page is a 1 3/4" x 4" x 12" mixed media Victorian wood doll with a paper-clay sculpted and painted face, blushed cheeks, sponge painted wood body, paper collage and embellished outfit. Her paper-clay sculpted and painted face has painted eyebrows, paper and painted eyes, painted eyelids, and paper and painted lips. Her sides and back are sponge painted and her outfit is an embellished paper collage adorned with white trim around her neck. Her paper collage dress has a center band adorned with blue raised dots and fancy lace and ribbon trim and there is a lace and ribbon trim bow decoration under her neck. Her collage dress has a two layer waistband with blue raised dots and fancy lace and ribbon trim. Her dress skirt is four layers.  Her hands are paper gloved.

A beautiful teal green fringed lace shawl is wrapped around her shoulders and adorned with a large baby blue silk floral. Her white thick dyed alpaca yarn hair from Rock Garden Alpacas Fiber is wrapped in a bun and adorned with beautiful lace and ribbon trim.  Teal blue and white ribbon is wrapped around her sponge painted wooden base. A colorful 4 silk floral bouquet adds charm to both the front and back of her base.

I hope you like the changes I made to Penelope, Pauline, and Page.  While I was not entirely unhappy with their faceless mannequin faces I like them better now.  As I love faceless dolls don't be surprised if I make some more mannequin art dolls when I get a chance.