Description

Hobby House Press, Cumberland, Maryland [Published date: 1988]. Hardcover, 111 pp; illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white photographs and diagrams ; 26 cm. Translation of "Kuenstlerpuppen selbermachen." Very good in very good dust jacket. Green paper over boards with gilt lettering on front and spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light bumping and creasing to edges and light overall scuffing. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Not Ex-library. A comprehensive instructional guide by renowned German doll artist Hildegard Gunzel on the creation of original porcelain dolls, covering modeling, molding, and painting techniques. Adapted from the original German edition, this edition presents nearly 300 step-by-step photographs and precise technical drawings that walk the reader through each stage of doll creation, from anatomy and proportion theory to mold making, casting, firing, painting, assembly, and wig attachment. Includes chapters on modeling portrait heads and creating artist doll molds. Also provides historical context for the tradition of artist's dolls, tracing its origins in the early 20th century. [From back cover] Creating dolls with bisque heads is a wonderful hobby because one's own artistic expressiveness can be embodied in them. To work with the porcelain, producing the model, making the mold, firing and painting of the head - all these things require a basic knowledge of technical procedures. To impart this knowledge and to awaken an awareness for expression and beauty is the aim of this book. It is a doll maker's course in book form. It conveys the technical knowledge and information about modeling and proportions by breaking the doll making process down into three hundred steps which are illustrated with photographs showing each stage of the work. The very clear and factual text in conjunction with approximately three hundred illustrations will guide the interested reader to his own personal success of doll making.