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Lion

root — 2010-03-05T15:26:30Z

I do not know exactly whether this lion is a "child" or a "grown-up". On the one hand, his appearance and clothes are rather childish, also he has got a touching face. On the other hand, he has got the mane of a grown-up lion, more than that his hare is grey.

Maybe you have met such people, especially among scientists and programmers. They look young even if they are 50. They do not want their clothes to be solid and respectful and this makes them look even more young.

As a decoration on his sweater there is a violet glass "eye" which is considered to be as an amulet against the evil eye in Italy (and as far as I know in Turkey).

Wedding Hare

root — 2010-01-16T12:14:22Z

This stuffed Hare-doll was specially designed as a "bridesmaid". It was a custom order to create a special wedding gift.

When the doll was ready I still had a feeling of non-satisfaction, I did not like her eyes... though they were not bad at all they lacked something important, to my mind.

I had some time before sending the doll to he customer. I dared to cut off her eyes in order to make new ones. Also I decided not to draw the eye lashes around new eyes. I managed to create curious, open and clear look and finally I felt myself satisfied.

When I finished I was really in a hurry because it was nearly a dead-line to send the hare.

Rapidly I took some photos and ran to the head post office. More than that, it was nearly the sunset and there were only few last sun rays on my balcony. So, all the same I had no chance to make a good photo session that evening. That's why the last pictures of this doll are mainly the pictures of its face from different points of view.

You may see the whole figure and take a closer look at some details on the following pictures (relating to the previous version of the doll), for it is only a face that has been changed. Compare these two faces and you'll find two completely different personalities.

Polegraph Polegraphovich

root — 2009-11-08T20:54:38Z

I made this dog as a birthday present.

One day our friend Oleg invited us to his birthday party, and I decided to create a present for him by myself, though I had too little time for it.

Creating an art doll is a long process and more than that I do not like to work very fast, but for this particular case I decided to do my best to create something cute and special in limited time.

I looked through the list of interests of our friend because I wanted this present to be personal. I found out that one of his favourite films is "The Heart of a Dog" (after the great novel of Russian and Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov).

Screen Shots

Here are some screen shots of the movie "The Heart of a Dog" by Vladimir Bortko (Lenfilm, 1988):

The pictures were borrowed from here: http://ruskino.ru/mov/638

BTW, the full text of the novel in English is available here: http://www.lib.ru/BULGAKOW/dogheart_engl.txt

I made a little embroidered heart for this dog in order everyone (who have read the book) could recognise the hero, but the bandaged dog's head is quite enough for the identification.

In this novel a famous professor of medicine took a wounded homeless dog for a medical experiment and called him Sharik (one of the most common name for mongrels in Russia). He wanted to put human hypophysis into the dog's brain and also to make a transplantation of sexual glands for his scientific research.

It turned out that this dog became a human being. Nobody expected the result like this. He became a really awful creature, for the dead man the doctor got the transplantation material from was an alcoholic and criminal.

The dog-man had to get the ID. So, he needed a real human name. He transformed his dog's name into the human surname and became Sharikov. He got the idea for his first and patronymic names from the calendar: that day was the day of polygraph (lie detector). He liked this complicated word (which he did not understand) very much, so he decided to call himself Polygraph Polygraphovich.

The emphasized part of this name sounds very similar to our friend's name (olyg and Oleg), that's why I transformed the name of the hero of the book into this stuffed dog's name: Polegraph Polegraphovich.

The dog-man made the life of many people to be a nightmare. The doctor and his assistant decided to correct their mistake and made a new operation in order to turn him into the pretty dog again.

At the end of the film the dog lies with a head in bandages near the professor's feet and thinks what a lucky one he is to live in a good apartment and to be kindly treated... the only bad thing is that his head aches a bit for some reason...

Old Mouse

root — 2009-10-17T09:34:26Z

I decided to make this mouse in order to check whether I designed the pattern properly. While I was working on the base of the body, I have found out that the pattern was not really what I expected it to be. So, I left the body lying in the corner and almost forgot about it. Once upon a time I have realized that I expect and demand too much from myself and from my toys. Everything have the right to exist, even though it does not seem to be perfect. I understood that if I devote my time to complete this awkward body, I will get the result anyhow. I got down to this work again and created the head and the paws, wrapped the silk thread round the wire of the tail. Then I have sewed her the blue peignoir, embroidered in the glittering thread, decorated the flowers with strasses, and put on the Czech bead pendant. That's how this elderly fancy vintage-style mouse appeared. Maybe she also needs a little walking stick, but I am still not sure about it.

Pattern

Here is the pattern of almost the same mouse. It is suitable for elastic fabric only.

Svetka

root — 2010-03-05T17:45:39Z

This is a light yellow stuffed dog in the orange cardigan with a bit white collar. She is a bright and "sunny" like a sunbeam. That's why her name is "Svetka" (similar to "light" in Russian). She is holding an empty jug hoping that somebody will put some milk in it (but she is not sure that anyone will do it).

Svetka was meant to be a Christmas present: