Mother

skull doll

30.5 cm / 12 inch - total piece
27 cm / 10.8 inch - mother
11 cm / 4.3 inch - child
Mother's head is a skull from the Bearded Barbet (Lybius Dubius) with glass eyes, the tiniest golden lashes, and copper red high quality English viscose hair.
Her body is made from stainless steel wire and apoxie skeleton with a paperclay finishing, painted with acrylics.
Mother wears a dupioni silk hat with hand pleated satin ribbons and black tule.
Her dress is made from beautiful high quality scalloped lace with satin ribbon and bows.
The dress is completely lined with jersey.
Her boots are sculpted from apoxie.

The little girl's head is a tiny (hummingbird?) skull with glass eyes, the tiniest golden lashes and copper red high quality English viscose hair just like her mother.
Her body is made from stainless steel wire and apoxie skeleton with a paperclay finishing, painted with acrylics.
The little girl is wearing a beautiful embroidered faded blue dress with a dupioni silk apron.
On her feet she wears blue clocks and sculpted socks.
The little girl is playing a hop scotch game on earthware tiles.
The 6" Walnut base is hand sanded and finished with high quality antique oil to give it a beautiful aged look.