tailieunhanh - Fantastic Figures: Ideas and Techniques Using the New Clays

Here is a doll-making course that combines sculpted clay with cloth bodies. It presents each step in sculpting the head and body, curing and finishing the materials, and constructing the costume. This book, and its companion, Designing the Doll, are both fabulous. The text is clear and easy to read, the line drawings are excellent, and the wide array of figures in photographs is very impressive. The book is heavily illustrated, and Susanna not only knows what she's doing, but she also write a great book about it. I'm a professional sculptor, and so often times the books fall far short. | TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION DESIGNING YOUR SCULPTURE Getting The Work Tools .14 Working Beginning to SCULPTING ThE head Basic Head Putting It All Tools for Refining the Discovering and Defining Finishing the Sculpting a scUlpting the body Feet and Preparation for CURING Polymer Ovens . 42 Cooking Loading the Cooking Polymer Adding Curing FINISHING AND PAINTING Polymer Basics for Finishing All constructing bodies Construction Weighting Stuffing and CLOTHING Costume Additional Costuming ACCESSORIES DISPLAY FUN STUFF Display Stands and Fun MATERIALS Understanding the New The Old The New Shelf APPENDICES Doll Clubs .113 Books .116 The Advice for Photo Study INTRODUCTION DESIGNING YOUR DOLL If you are really itching to get to the clay and start a doll skip right on over to the next chapter and jump in but do come back and catch up later Ordinarily in a class situation we would begin to work on our sculpture as the day progressed we would talk about the elements of thinking or designing that must be considered in making your own original dolls. Hands-on dollmaking doesn t have to be done in a logical order but a book does. Thinking you want to make a doll comes before sculpting so we will discuss that first. Most books will show you a step-by-step how-to process that results in a specific finished project like How to Make the Little Green Elf. Since this book however deals with learning to .