Izannah Walker continues to inspire my doll making. With “Felicity,” I’ve further developed her body design and added inset glass eyes. Felicity has a cloth body that is rigidly stuffed. …
Some of the handiest tools in my studio are cheap or easy to make. Here are a couple to help handle doll parts while you’re working on them. I made…
Spraying sealant can be fraught with peril! Here are some tools that can help you get a good result by helping you eliminate lint and get an even coating. Just before…
This is “Jubilee,” my Izannah Walker inspired doll. I modified a pattern created by Dixie Redmond and I used many tools and materials from Gail Wilson Designs. I highly recommend…
The beloved folk-art cloth dolls known generally as “Izannah Walker Dolls” were made in the mid-1800s in New England. Izannah Walker received a patent for her doll making process in…
Today is “Support BJD Artists” day. Art dolls are routinely recasted by unscrupulous enterprises and sold more cheaply than the legitimate artist’s dolls. A recasting business buys a doll and uses…
This is “Deogi” made by Dollstown. She is a resin BJD and she’s about 16″ tall. Her resin color is called Freshskin which resembles bisque. Her wig is custom made…
In a previous post, I showed how I modified the head/neck joint on the Doll-in-Mind “Love” girl body for my Lalia doll. Link to Doll-in-Mind’s Love SD Girl Link to…
I recently painted this face for my friend, Marianne (the AIL Alice in the previous post is also her doll). She is an MSD so she is about 17″ tall.…
Just finished a faceup commission for my friend, Marianne. This is the “Alice” sculpt from the Korean artist “Alice in Labyrinth.” Her sculpts have distinctive sweetness and sensuality. AIL makes…
Mad Wife In The Attic 