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

About the AuthorPatti Medaris Culea began her career as a painter and portrait artist. She lives in San Diego, California.. Today, she makes one-of-a-kind art dolls and has a full line of cloth doll patterns. She is the author of Creative Cloth Doll Making (Rockport 2003) and her work has appeared in other books, magazines, and galleries

She is the author of Creative Cloth Doll Making (Rockport 2003) and her work has appeared in other books, magazines, and galleries. She lives in San Diego, California.. Today, she makes one-of-a-kind art dolls and has a full line of cloth doll patterns. Patti Medaris Culea began her career as a painter and portrait artist

Bunny said Creative Cloth Doll Faces. I DO NOT WANT TO RETURN THIS BOOK TO THE SELLER!!! I AM VERY HAPPY WITH THIS BOOK AND LOVE IT!!!I have NEVER been disappointed with Patti Maderis Culea publications. Believe I have all of her books on doll making and the contents are easy to understand, the photo quality is excellent and the dolls are beautiful. Took one of her silk doll making classes in Austin, TX and I was elated with Patti's superb instructions and the completed gorgeous doll made. Everything Patti teaches, be it in her fa. Excellent Fun Creative Buy it Teagan Blue I love this book, it is a book for the truly creative. If you need inspiration and skills, this book is for you. The book starts off with the specific formula to use in placing features on a doll face and offers some patterns to make dolls. From there it is all about the artist in you. There is a large gallery of ideas (the entire doll, not just the face) and they are fresh, colorful, unusual and even wild. The book reviews using varied materials and methods including paints, watercolor pencil. MEA said Great ideas.. Fabulous ideas for anyone interested in doll making.

So it is surprising that there is so little instruction available on creating doll faces. The face is the most important feature of a doll -- it is also the most challenging. In this book, she shows readers a simple technique for easily creating faces using her step-by-step approach. 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. Readers will learn how to use watercolor pencils, acrylics, and fabric paints to color a face, how to create a face using collage techniques as well as stamping and beading, and tips for working with stretchy fabrics to create indented eyes, separate eyelids, and sculpted lips.. 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