Nick the Potter
02 / Making story

Dolly

Dolly is all softness pretending to be clay — a floppy body on a stiff chair, hair rolled strand by strand and a face that took a long afternoon. The build photographs are on their way.

The finished Dolly sculpture isolated against the page.

Modelled earthenware

Dolly

A rag doll slumped on a little ladder-back chair, the whole thing modelled in clay and set on a thrown, banded base.

01—16The complete build

Part 01

Clay and limbs

a lump of clay and a pair of boots

She starts as a wedged lump and a mug of tools. The legs come first — seamed boots and patterned tights, modelled separately so they can carry the sitting pose.

A wedged lump of clay on the bench beside the tool mug.01

Frame 1 / 16

Puzzle Pots