Creative Skills
Art dolls demand a wide range of many skills and technologies, including but not only, sculpting, painting and costuming. Technicalities involve knowledge of the various clays used create a human or human-like sculpture. Most art dolls are dressed, requiring sewing. Some are high fashion while some are period or fantasy.
The figure or doll is usually dressed or draped in fabrics so that costuming can be elaborate or simple. Sewing and color sense is very important, similar to a composition if this were a drawing or painting, adding a the sense of time and place. The face is the most important feature, portraiture is another feature of the process. An expressive face or telling smile can elevate a doll to art. Just as the Mona Lisa rises to the level of fine art through skilled techniques of representation and modelling of the form, a well-crafted figure rises from be a doll to an art doll.
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