Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
The Forde Files No 108
Happy little Ursula, a Diamond doll show winner, sticks her tongue out as she plays with her teddy bear. Jaimes was offered $1,000 for Ursula, but she won't part with her (Medium price point is $500)
Jaimes begins with an inspiration from a photo and re-creates the image with uncanny fidelity using professional sculptor's clay and a box of instruments. She makes tiny, lifelike hands and feet, details familiar from her years as a neo-natal intensive care nurse
A little boy all dressed up in a corduroy suit who Forde Files named Guenther.
Fairy/elf ears. The doll will be used in a class for daughters of collectors at the Rose International Doll Show in Utah in July
A two-year resident of Tehachapi, Lauren Jaimes has been making clay dolls for four years. She transforms the clay, which she bakes in a dedicated toaster oven, into individual humans with their own personalities and characteristics. Her dolls feature expressive eyes and they exude sweet innocence. She places them in theme vignettes. She found that creating dolls makes her happy. "The art comes from the fun and joy of it," Jaimes said.
