Porcelain Doll Design and Creation

Porcelain Doll Design and Creation
Author: Brigitte Von Messner
Publisher: Portfolio Press (NY)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999-09
Genre: Doll clothes
ISBN: 9780942620276

Popular German artist Brigitte Von Messner teaches you how to make beautiful porcelain dolls with cloth bodies. The award-winning artist shares her secrets, techniques, tips and sculpting skills; full-colour close-up photographs of each step accompany the text. Learn how to design and sculpt, paint eyes and facial features, make hands and feet, sew and string cloth bodies and make clothes using full-size patterns.

Enchanted Doll

Enchanted Doll
Author: Marina Bychkova
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-05-15
Genre: China dolls
ISBN: 9781614040088

More than mere playthings, Enchanted Dolls are elegantly sculpted and articulated works of art. Strikingly nude, engraved or adorned in opulent sculptural costumes of precious metals, gemstones and rare found objects, each doll intricately conveys an aspect of our humanity. As Marina says 'the reason I love making dolls is because it it's a multidisciplinary art form. To create a doll I get to do it all: sculpture, industrial design, painting, engraving, mold-making, drawing, metalwork, fashion and jewellery design. I want it all!'

The Doll Scene

The Doll Scene
Author: Louis Bou
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1627880550

The Doll Scene features hundreds of custom-created dolls by the hands of some of the best artists worldwide using mainly original Blythe, Pullip, Ball Jointed Dolls, Dal, or Monster High dolls as “raw material� to generate their lovely and stunning characters. These dolls have an oversized head and large eyes that change colors!DIV/divChanging everything from the original serialized doll— hair, makeup, reshaping faces, adding new eyelashes, eyelids and clothing— the artists featured in The Doll Scene create some truly amazing figures.

Creative Cloth Doll Collection

Creative Cloth Doll Collection
Author: Patti Medaris Culea
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1610581148

This book is a compilation of the first four of Patti Medaris Culea's bestselling books: Creative Cloth Doll Making, Creative Cloth Doll Faces, Creative Cloth Doll Couture, and Creative Cloth Doll Beading. This comprehensive book guides readers through all the basics of creating cloth figures, with step-by-step fully illustrated instruction. Readers get complete patterns to create several styles of dolls, many with interchangeable parts. The book provides methods for creating beautiful faces, hair, garments, clothing, and supplies instruction in a wide variety of surface design techniques including dyeing, painting, stamping, beading, applique, hand and machine embroidery, image transfers, using Tyvek, and more. For further inspiration, the book also includes a gallery of doll designs by other leading doll artists, all made using the patterns from the book.

The World's Most Beautiful Dolls

The World's Most Beautiful Dolls
Author: Joan Muyskens Pursley
Publisher: Portfolio Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2001-11-01
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0942620534

Dolls are, by definition, playthings. But the best of today's dolls are highly collectible works of art. This book traces the history of dolls and doll collecting, and takes you into the wonderful world of artists dolls, many of which sell for thousands of dollars. The stunning creations of fifty internationally renowned artists are showcased in full-colour photographs. Discover the artists and delight in their inspiring stories.

Designing the Doll

Designing the Doll
Author: Susanna Oroyan
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1999
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781571200600

From concept to construction.

Excel Charts

Excel Charts
Author: John Walkenbach
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2002-11-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780764517648

* One of the world's best-known Excel experts shows how to master the charting features in Excel 2000 and 2002 to create compelling graphic representations of data * Covers basic and advanced features, focusing on the new charting featuresprovided in version 2002 * Explains how to select charts for different categories of data, modify data in a chart, deal with missing data, format charts, customize shapes, and give charts a professional look

Cloth Doll Artistry

Cloth Doll Artistry
Author: Barbara Willis
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2011-02-09
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1616735384

In this unique and beautiful book, beloved doll-designer Barbara Willis guides readers through various approaches to doll design and basic and advanced construction techniques. Through the creation of three complete step-by-step projects, readers will develop color boards, learn to use vintage images, create both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional cloth dolls, learn sophisticated costuming techniques, and gain knowledge of elaborate soft sculpting. A gallery shares the inspirational work of several well-known doll artists who have created their own versions of each project. Complete patterns and templates are included.