She has had repairs in the past including rebuilding of her feet, repainting of the body and even a new head!
Her head is marked 'RELIABLE' and her body is marked 'PULLAN'.
The head and body colour do not match. The face colour looks original but the pinker body colour may not be. Her hair has had some extra dark paint applied.
If you look at her body in this picture, you can see the paint/gesso is lumpy and pitted. To make her look her best all the chipped and aged layers need to come off or get sanded smooth. The skin tone paint and the white gesso underneath tested stronly for lead. So, another outdoor job with mask on!
Many days later she can finally start the rebuilding and resurfacing process. The white layer under the paint on the body was particularily tenacious!
Wonderful. It's nice to see the paint matching and so smooth and pretty. Did you do all of the sanding by hand? That would be a lot of work. I can feel my hands cramping just thinking about it!
ReplyDeleteI do use a Dremel with a sanding disc but once you get close to the base composition, hand sanding is safer.
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