Jayne's mannequin

Jayne Daimo made this unique mannequin, and shares the process here. When we held the summer market this year, Jayne participated with her own stand, where she worked on the mannequin, but due to the rain that day, she didn't get to finish it. Jayne also participates in this year's Christmas market, where she creates something new and exciting.

Jayne writes:
Now we're approaching the Christmas market at Jeanne d'Arc Living, which I'm looking forward to participating in. But I guess I'd better finish a small detail from our summer market first.

It was a rainy day at the summer market, and yet there were many people inside my stand to see what I was doing. I was working on a mannequin that I should have finished during the day, but because of all the water, I couldn't blow dry my clay so I could start painting on it as it would have an unfortunate effect, and a bit too entertaining if I used power with my feet in a puddle.

There were so many people who were so nice to tell me that they were looking forward to seeing it finished, and I actually did that myself, but it couldn't be that day. I have now completed her, and owe it to you to show the result.

I started by giving the whole gin a primer. Here a white Gesso. This means I can paint with everything on top. Then I layered a Dirty White acrylic paint over it so that the color of the gin can differ from the white border around the corset. I then put on rice paper which was to be her corset. I don't have a picture of that, because it was used up, but you can see it on the gin. Then I painted with a blue color (which I had chosen on the basis that it should match the blue shade in the rice paper) on the back, so that the corset was complete. I chose a chalk paint called Gustavian Blue, which is from Autentico.

I now set about making necklaces, the top of the neck, border and decoration around the corset. Here I used self-drying clay that I can press into the silicone mold, take it out immediately, and glue it on. It is important to use a strong glue here, as the slightly heavy clay has to stick, and has gravity against it, as the gin does not lie down. A lace border came on the bottom of the gin and a lace hole lace was glued on in the middle. When the self-drying clay was dry (and I was dry, and got home), I could paint on it.

First I painted the necklace and the lace at the bottom, with the same blue as the back of the corset. Next, it got a finger wax in bronze and white gold. The top of the neck and the edge got a Hybrid metallic acrylic paint, in the color Pearl. Look, here I was happy because I had painted the gin with is Dirty White, so you can clearly see the edge of the corset.

At the very end, I found a leather cord (in the stash) that was exactly the same green color as the leaves in the rice paper. How lucky are you allowed to be? :)

So there is nothing more to say than that my brain has been spinning to create something exciting for the Christmas market, and I am very much looking forward to it.

Regards Jayne.

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