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Creative Cloth Doll Faces: Using Paints, Pastels, Fibers, Beading, Collage, and Sculpting Techniques

by Patti Medaris Culea

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Editorial Reviews

The face is the most important feature of a doll—it is also the most challenging. So it is surprising that there is so little instruction available on creating doll faces. This book fills that void.

Author Patti Medaris Culea began her career in art as a portrait painter and she puts that experience to work when creating her doll faces. In this book, she shows readers a simple technique for easily creating faces using her step-by-step approach. She gives her tips for how to divide the face into quadrants, graft features together, and much more.

Every aspect of doll making is covered—from the basics to detailed techniques for making the various faces to instructions for putting a pattern together. Readers will learn how to use watercolor pencils, acrylics, and fabric paints, as well as learn techniques for using collage, stamping, and beading, and will find tips for working with stretchy fabrics to create indented eyes, separate eyelids, and sculpted lips.

Customer Reviews

Super, 2009-08-30
by Kristen K. Cameron (NM)

Any thing by this artist is always good, good info. good color, good finished projects and good projects. Yes, buy this book.

Creative cloth doll faces, 2009-08-10
by Christine Garrison (San Bernardino CA)

This book is wonderful, like having a class one on one. It explains things in a simple way so it can be broken down into steps. The patterns are great an interchangeable with each other . Glad that I bought it, now all I need is inspiration .

Wonderful get-started book!, 2009-04-07
by Designing Woman (Fort Worth, TX)

I was looking for something to get myself started creating again and this book was just what I needed. The information is complete and easy to follow and the illustrations help a "visual" learner like myself to replicate the dolls without all the trial and error.

Creative Cloth Doll Faces, 2009-03-28
by Stephanie Wyrsch (New Zealand)

This book is wonderfully creative - so many ideas from contributing artists who show alternative techniques - very clever and well worth purchasing.

beautifully illustrated, 2009-02-02
by Claudia 077 (Nowhere Pa)

Another good book by P.M.Culea.
Step by step instructions for creating faces. Beautifully illustrated and different techniques discussed.