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Doll Making Blogs
 | Doll Making BlogsArtisans share their joys and frustrations in their professional and personal blogs on creating dolls.
All the blog owners have included their favorite doll making tips.
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Needle and Clay features doll artists, news of the doll industry and dollmaking tutorials. Stop by for inspiration, tips and community updates.
Doll Making Tip
Give special thought to the pose of your doll before you begin sculpting. A dynamic or tender pose is often the difference between a so-so doll and a fantastic one. Check out movie posters, book covers, magazines and comic books to get ideas.
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This talented doll artist sculpts paper clay to create some of the most expressive and unique doll faces and bodies. After adding clothing and hand-made wigs to her sculptures, her art dolls transform to somewhat dark yet still lovely art dolls. On her blog she explores her creative process and previews her dolls prior to making them available for sale.
Clay Finishing & Sculpting Tip
If you want to achieve a very smooth surface before baking polymer clay, give your sculpt a light dusting of either baby powder or cornstarch (less smelly!) You can use your finger for this if you have very steady hands, or a very soft paintbrush for finer details.
If working with paperclay, you can achieve an incredibly smooth finish by using manicurists buffing blocks (soft foam blocks covered in very fine sandpaper) for the final sanding, as they have a grit finer than I've been able to find anywhere. Alternatively, you can rub cotton batting gently over your sculpt to buff the piece and smooth out any tiny bumps. Of course, in some cases, a little roughness or
texture is nice, so trust in the doll; the doll will tell you how she wants to look!
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Berrie makes Waldorf Dolls and other natural toys. She shares her life, her latest creations and some of her doll-making secrets on her doll making blog.
Doll Making Tip
To make a solid head in a stuffed doll, roll a strip of wool tightly like you would wind a ball of yarn. Make the ball larger than you want your head to be and then take a flat piece of square batting and cover the ball evenly gathering all of the edges together to form the neck of the doll. Take your stockinette tube and put it inside out. Slide it over the stuffing like you might put put on a sock turning it right side out as you go.
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