Welcome to my website dedicated to my porcelain BJD dolls and handmade porcelain products!
My name is Olga, and I create original and lifelike porcelain BJD dolls.
One day I saw some dolls made by an artist and fell in love with these beautiful creations. As a child, I was very good at drawing and sculpting, so I decided to try making my first polymer clay doll, and I was a success :) I learned the secrets of doll making on my own, gathering bits of information online and learning from my mistakes (mostly). Then I decided to try working with porcelain, and now it's my favorite material. The Parian porcelain I use is fired at 1240 degrees Celsius. It's very durable and incredibly translucent, making it perfect for making dolls; my OOAK BJD dolls are made with this type of porcelain.
It takes immense patience and skill to bring a doll to life, and it really requires a huge amount of manual labor, especially since it's a miniature model, which significantly complicates the process! Here's a far from complete list of the steps involved in creating porcelain BJD dolls:
- Sketching the image
- Sculpting the model
- Creating plaster molds from the model (oh, how tedious, time-consuming, and messy)
- Preparing the casting compound (slip) and casting all the doll parts
- Fine and delicate finishing of the porcelain blank (my favorite step)
- Drying the blanks (with bated breath)
- Firing (several times) and intermediate sanding in water
- Painting in multiple layers (5 to 10) and baking each layer of paint
- Creating wigs and jewelry
- Endless research into period clothing, creating dresses and shoes, hand embroidery
- Creating a beautiful padded doll box from natural wood
- Creating a wooden doll stand
It seems like a team of professionals are involved, but I do everything myself, from scratch to the final product.
Creating a BJD doll takes about four months, sometimes longer, from concept to finished product: a truly enormous amount of manual labor!
Each doll is absolutely unique. I'm proud of my work and happy to share it with you!
My name is Olga, and I create original and lifelike porcelain BJD dolls.