Sculpting & Making a Toddler Doll: Head to Toe in Water Based Clay and Sculpey or Cernit [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Susan Dunham (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1996

This is the ultimate how-to-book for both beginner and professional artists. Explore the expert's secrets to sculpting success. Easy step-by-step instruction is profusely illustrated, to sculpt a 20-inch toddler doll in water clay. Including special chapters devoted to: detailed sculpting and jointing of the head, torso, hands, and feet. Sculpt an entire 10-inch toddler doll using special templates to keep you on track. Use sculpey or cernit, easy to make and bake in your home oven! A chapter on fun, quick projects. Also included is a precious dress and hat pattern for the 20-inch toddler complete with simple instructions for French ribbon embroidery anyone can do. Over 90 black-and-white photographs and numerous colour photographs.

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From the Back Cover

Both beginner and advanced artist will revel in this ultimate easy to understand how-to book that explores the expert's secrets to sculpting success. Susan Dunham has designed a non-technical, easy-to-create guide for making:

A 20" toddler doll. Easy step-by-step instructions, profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings, help you sculpt a 20" toddler doll with ease. Special chapters detail the sculpting and jointing of the head, torso, hands, and feet, making the project simple and fun.

A 10" toddler doll. Sculpt an entire 10" toddler doll using special templates to keep you on track.

Weekend projects. Like the 20" and 10" toddler dolls, the weekend projects use sculpey or cernit, easy to make-and-bake in your home oven! Enjoy making a wide variety of quick 20 minute projects to use as special jewelry gifts or small accouterments for your dolls.

A precious dress and hat pattern. Clothe your 20" toddler doll in this gorgeous dress and hat outfit. Add colorful French ribbon embroidery to the dress collar and hat with simple instructions anyone can do.

Create these fun and simple projects and be on your way to a happy past time or a profitable hobby!

About the Author

Susan Dunham

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Hobby House Press; illustrated edition edition (May 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875884571
• ISBN-13: 978-0875884578
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,530,977 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Guide for sculpting in water clay, not Cernit -Sculpey., August 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Sculpting & Making a Toddler Doll: Head to Toe in Water Based Clay and Sculpey or Cernit (Paperback)

This book shows how to model a toddler doll from head-to-toe as the title suggests, but the sculpting techniques presented are more appropriate for clays used in large masses, i.e. not polymer clays like Cernit and Sculpey. A better book for sculpting young children using polymer clays is Rotraut Schrott's "Making Original and Potrait Dolls in Cernit".

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Still Have Questions., July 17, 2001

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Mona Gracen (New York State, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sculpting & Making a Toddler Doll: Head to Toe in Water Based Clay and Sculpey or Cernit (Paperback)

I agree with the previous reviewer - this is definitely a better book for people making porcelain dolls than dolls from polyclay. I am fairly disappointed and still have a lot of questions. However, it was very helpful regarding sculpting over an armature and gave me some what of an idea of how to then proceed to make a mold from my polyclay piece. I also have Rotraut Schrott's book and I honestly don't find that one all that much more helpful for my purposes. I am really trying to figure out joints and making mold at this point and I am having a difficult time finding a book that will help me as they are all geared towards porcelain. And the polyclay books all assume you are making one of a kind dolls. The pictures are good in this book though and I feel I have a little more grasp on what I'm shooting for now - so I give it 3 stars which to me means average. I wish I had thought twice before buying it. There must be a better book out there.