Round robin traveler

First off ... FRAN ... DON'T LOOK ...

Okay, now that that's out of the way ... this is the second piece I've received in the current round robin. After I freaked out Judi A. with the work I did last month I figured I'd better do something more normal this month.

This is how she came to me from Pammy. Isn't the face divine? It's Fran's sculpt and her first face mold for sale. I had to order one of the molds after I saw it in person. Anyhow, she attached the torso to the top of the box with apoxie sculpt. Pammy had added the hair and the pink headband and scarf ribbon.

I decided that since this is a traveling doll she should have a trunk. So I took all the hardware off and gave the box a base coat of gesso. Then I gave it a coat of pink followed by a dry brushed coat of Jacquard's Halo Pink/Gold Lumiere (what a mouthful!). Lot's of travel 'stickers' were added as well as paper cut to look like bands going around the trunk. I've put one coat of varnish on it and now I'm trying to decide whether I should antique it or maybe do a peeling paint technique. What do you think?

These were kind of sorta my inspiration .. these are the trunks that my family used when we sailed to America on the Queen Mary in 1963.