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Victorian Settee
It’s good to be back after such a long break!
It’s another commission for me. Quite complicated piece of furniture, but I hope to get through it. I’ll be using pear wood again, not steamed but I’d say “smoked” pear, it had a beautiful chocolate brown color. Btw, not cheap at all, but I like it even more than steamed one.
I started from the lower part of the settee, main frame and cabriole legs, lots of carving there!
Proxxon planer review.
I got this surface planer as a birthday gift from my husband, I also have just a planer from Proxxon too, but sometimes you just need one perfect side, especially when the material is not perfect. I had to work with imperfections with my hand plane, but basically I don’t have enough space for it. Besides some woods are very hard to work with, so this planer is my savior.
Well, here it is:
Dollshouse from Kensington Palace
This time I had to make a break, I have a terrible luck with nannies. I’m hoping to get one next week, but for now I’m super jealous of those lucky girls who have grannies 🙂 My kid just turned one last week and I’m not getting younger, the good thing about birthdays – I got a superb present from my husband, Proxxon planer. I had no time to test it properly, so I’ll leave it for now till the next post.
Now for some photos from London, this time – from Kensington palace and V&A museum, this one is a dollhouse which was made for Queen Victoria:
Some news and my Etsy shop
The weather in Moscow is terrible – raining and no sun at all. Even May was perfect with its sunny days.
And now I’m back to work with another project, need to model everything in 3d before, it’s quite complicated project for me, so I have to work in several programs at the same time.
As for the rest – I added my Mom’s dolls on my site and also opened my Etsy shop though there are only few items left.
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Look what I’ve found in the latest Miniaturas issue! Haha, my game table. It was a huge surprise for me.
I also got some pear wood – just plain one, steamed pear and a special one – it is the heat-treated pear which has light chocolate color. I’m going to use it in my new commissioned item.
Cornelis De Man Chess Players Roombox.
Well, it’s all done, I’m waiting for the last third painting – the frame for it is ready. Here is the original painting:
And what we’ve done with it 🙂
Fine Miniatures Forum.
Just wanted to share this great link with you – IGMA forum is open now-http://www.fineminiaturesforum.com. Wonderful artisans and lots of information for you.
Hello, Dollies
I found that First Cut short film I saw on BBC4 some time ago. You can find it on vimeo site – here.
Last week I also updated my page with the pieces I sell, check it out! If you are interested in buying something contact me – victoria@inchscaled.com.
KDF, part 3.
The second and the last day of the Festival was great, we needed to open our tables one hour earlier, so that we would have a chance to see other exhibitors. I took my chance though some tables were still covered. Anyway, I was lucky to see David Hurley’s work, I bought his micro carving chisels set, didn’t try it yet.
I also had a chance to see latest Mulvany & Rogers commission. Though at the moment it was closed:(
You can see some more photos here.
I feel bad that I didn’t make any photos later, I didn’t take my camera.
KDF, part 2.
The story goes on…
It was my first show abroad, so it was exciting to see all the people – old ladies with their grandchildren, married couples desperately looking for something to buy.
My first thought – nobody’s taking photos! It’s quite common, I’d say, very popular thing in Russia. Lots of people who came by just to take a picture. Here – it was mostly press, and some people who read about me in the magazine or knew me from my blog. As for me, I was really shy to ask for photos – to see all those fantastic artisans, was a bit too much for me, I have so many things to learn, and their creations were really close to perfection.
At the start of the day so many people encouraged me, it was fantastic! They said that the style I’m working in is unusual, mostly they see Victorian or Georgian, so they were happy to see something new and fresh.