cdaa peni dyer

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Peni Dyer Unionville, ON


Email: penidyer@rogers.com
Website:
www.LivingDoll.8K.com


FAMILY INFORMATION: I live in Unionville with my husband and the last two of our children. My studio is in my home and I spend most of my time making dolls. As well, I teach doll making and sculpting three times per week.

My students are a nice group of women who are also now my friends. When we get together we talk about everything under the sun from sex to politics, and we laugh a lot.

I now teach doll making from my home studio and I find this new path enjoyable and rewarding. (I recently taught a 12 week course in "sculpting a portrait doll " my students surpassed my greatest expectations and their own. I am confident the CDAA is about to sign four new members).

TYPE/STYLE OF DOLLS: I make porcelain dolls, mostly portrait dolls of children, and I also work with polymer clays. I find it easier to do realistic figures from photographs. Even when I do mystical characters, I use a picture from a magazine as a guide.

LENGTH OF TIME IN DOLL MAKING: I have been making dolls for about 6 years and I have won several awards, The two I am most proud of are the "CDAA People’s Choice Award" in 2002 and 2003.

DOLL MAKING COMMENTS OR MOTTO: If you keep working at it, it will only get better.

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