Sweet grandma's memories

This time I'm presenting characters in scale 1:6 - a little girl and her grandmother.

Many of us have such great memories of our beloved grandparents:
grandma serving delicious treats or sewing clothes for dolls
or grandpa taking for walks or reading fairy tales.

Just take a look at the two characters I made: they seem to be very
satisfied with each other's company.

The girl is 16 cm cm tall . She is dressed in a pink dress finished with
a cream lace. Her hair is formed into a mass of bright curls,
decorated with a pink bow. Shoes are light beige.
Grandma is 29 cm tall . She is dressed in a black lace blouse
and a dark brown skirt. Her slightly disheveled  hair is decorated
with ornamental hairpins.

I made some extra equipment for this set: there is a box of chocolates,
and a sweet doll belonging to the girl . The doll is dressed in a cream
suit and a cream cap and is 8 cm tall .

A life full of sketches...

I would like to present Eduardo, a man fully dedicated to his passion.
His head is full of ideas and he love to transfer the ideas to paper.

The figure is in the Renaissance style, scale 1:12, about 16cm tall.
Eduardo is slightly bald and, well, rather tubby.
He is dressed in a purple doublet and wide, brown trousers.
His head is adorned with a beret distinctive for Renaissance painters.
He has a sketchbook stuffed with sketches and, of course, pencils.

What  do the sketches of Eduardo show? People and still life.
The persons on the sketches are the inhabitants of my Miniature Avenue.
Indeed, I took pictures of my figures - some of them not yet presented
in this blog - and turned them into sketches
and then loaded them into Eduardo's sketchbook.
The still life sketches also present my own creations.

You can guess from expression of his eyes, that Eduardo finds
sometimes  his own life a collection of sketches,
some of them quite ironic...

Basket filled with oranges

After 67 years a 19th century Polish painting "Jewish selling oranges"
of Aleksander Gierymski has been returned
to its original home - the National Museum of Warsaw.
The painting has been missing since the second world war
and was unexpectedly found one year ago on one of foreign auction.

Both the history of the painting and an old, tired woman
on in inspired me to introduce this theme to my miniature world.
The woman selling oranges... - what was she like?
How was her life? What did she cook on that very day?
When admiring a painting I am always wondering
who were people presented on it.
The first thing I am always paying attention to in art
are the ways of expressing human personality.
This is definitely most important for me.
And so fascinating is the foggy  view of old Warsaw in the background!

The character I sculptured is made in 1:12 scale ( about 15 cm tall)
and seems to be tired of life. She wears a cap (removable)
and a thick shawl around her shoulders.
And of course there is also a basket filled with oranges...