Ellen Harris has a longish tutorial about sculpting a miniature baby with Paperclay.
And for our polymer clay readers, here’s a page of tutorials from Global Doll Artists covering heads, torsos, hands, hair, fairy wings and mermaid tails.
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I’m not sure if you can call these dolls or not, but I love them anyway, so these are here for your inspiration.
(By the way, if you haven’t already, check out Adele Sciortino’s doll costuming newsletter for Martha Boer’s Summer 2007 article about using silk flower petals in doll costumes.)
Mora is a [...]
Apparently I’m doing a series on paperclay-over-cloth dolls. Really, it wasn’t intentional. I’ve been meaning to blog about Melisa Matkin, the artistic power behind Coppermouse Dolls, for a while, and it just happened that she has some work-in-progress photos on her blog that detail her sculpting process.
But first, let’s talk about her dolls. [...]
Something about ODACA artist Deanna Hogan’s work reminds me of the nostalgic South. She lives in the northwest, so maybe it’s just the power of suggestion, since she has made several dolls based on the antique Alabama Baby, but to me her chubby play dolls and nostalgic adult figures are reminiscent of folk music and [...]
