Jolly Roger Dolls Octavia, this girl arrived over a year ago now. Unfortunately she didn’t get the attention she deserved as the summer of 2020 was a time of a lot of badness in my life, this doll ended up on the back burner for inspiration as a result.
But I’d like to formally introduce her now and thank the artist that created her for her lovely work. The face up was done by her too and the resin color is a gorgeous lavender.
Many belated thanks to @ceciliafior ☺️🙏💕💕💕
The original box opening filmed July 13th, 2020 is up on my YouTube channel now:
For anyone looking for a beautiful, well-posing, plus sized doll body in 1/4 or 1/3, Blackship Doll is a new company that made an “Oil Painting Body”. The first presale ended, but Space Studio will be opening a second order sometime soon!
This is one of the best posing bodies I’ve gotten and I’m so happy I was able to snag the in stock one from the NY Doll Con and I preordered a tan one that’s coming in May!
The fitted Limhwa dress works on this body fairly well with a strap adjustment.
Thank goodness the previous owner had her wired. I can tell you this body does not function haha. Even with stiff wiring it is difficult to manage.
But I can't emphasize enough how precious the old Volks dolls are.
Best I've come up with is something like a Minifee feels closer to a plastic action figure, and the old Volks feel closer to precious pottery. (Not knockin the MNF, they're just a different animal)
Today’s Doll - finally finished painting my Dollits Jicheon that I don’t remember posting here before! I waffled on what to do with him but settled on making him the head for my Kintsugi body! I used the same liquid gold leaf and abalone shells I used on the body. I ended up being a bit more heavy handed than I’d intended to, but I think he looks good!
Last pic is a wip of when I was doing the shell placements.
I spent an hour writing this post a couple of weeks ago and it just disappeared when I hit the post button. That among other things is why I haven't felt like posting on here!
I have every intention of being active here again, so this is me trying to rewrite my lost post.
This is a little bit of niche doll history, because I fell down a rabbit hole of sorts and spent my money on a very obscure doll.
To put you in my shoes, these were the photos that introduced me to this doll, In the form of a Facebook marketplace listing of course.
My first thought was wow, that wig was a choice.
My second thought was that whoever wrote this listing was using some kind of AI assistance, as it claimed that this doll was a Japanese resin bjd from the 90s.
I'm familiar enough with both resin and porcelain that I could tell that this is a porcelain doll. The supposed sculptor name included in the listing also returned no search results, and on top of that, the listing was $500.
Still, I was drawn to the sculpting. It's such a unique style that is reminiscent of so many fine arts dollmakers I admire. I returned to the listing a number of times and as nobody else seemed interested, the price steadily dropped.
At $100 I almost felt obligated to buy this doll. It was at this final price drop that I realised the sculptor's name engraved on the doll's head was misspelled in the listing text. No wonder it wasn't searchable.
With the sculptor's actual name, I found some information about this sculpt.
This is Mito, by Japanese sculptor Byakuya Muneyasu. Mito was released as a greenware kit in 2012 in collaboration with New York Doll Products.
These images and information on Mito were sourced from Porcelain Dolls by Me , who still sell Mito kits today.
I'm such a fan of the painting on the stock image model Mito, those big Margaret Keane eyes and that body blushing is to die for.
Also noteworthy is this art installation by Zoe Jackson that uses a Mito kit. I really wish I had known about this piece when I was writing for my own installation piece last year! It's incredible.
With this information on Mito, including the knowledge that the unpainted greenware kit is just under $200, I purchased the $100 marketplace Mito. And because she was being shipped from within Australia, she arrived within a week!
I still don't have an outfit that fits her properly, but I want to give her something transparent so that her incredible sculpt and painting aren't obscured too much. I'll sew her something when I find the appropriate fabrics second hand.
That periwinkle twintail wig really didn't suit her in my opinion, so I found a brunette wig in my stash and it fit her head perfectly.
I really liked the curls, but the wig was in a terrible state and it was easier to clean it straightened.
I'll give her new curls eventually, I'm sure.
I think that's all I have to tell you about Mito, who as of my first time writing this post was my newest doll. More on that when I feel like it.
