meet Roberta

Here is Roberta! I have created her over the last few days using some of the dyed fabric I ve been making. She came about because of some of the sketches Ive been doing of ladies with birds in their hair, I wanted to make that image come to life and here she is, I named her Roberta because I wanted a name with manly tone ( cant place why yet, just felt right)
I spent alot of time under the dress trying to make her a big girl, the doll pattern was to skinny, I want to look a larger framed women in my work now, so Im going to need to develop a big girl body pattern to use in future dolls.
I love her hair and dress loads and will be  exploring those ideas further.
I have a real thread of a narrative going on in my head and sketches at the mo, looking to get a friend to model for a few poses over weekend to see where I can take idea, will report as soon as it firms up a little.
All the snow gone here now, a little sad about that it was so very beautiful and unusual, but its nice to see green again.
pip pip for now xx