Introducing Joy Marie

I started sculpting Joy at the REAL doll get together so I named her after our hostess!  I hand sculpted Joy with no molds and sewed her body, made her clothes, toy sock monkey, and even made her diaper!  She has a polymer clay head and limbs with a soft doe suede body making her poseable.   Joy is about 5½" tall with poly-pellets in her bottom and soft stuffing for the rest of her body. Joy's neck is signed with my initials and the year.  Joy is currently on eBay (until April 16, 2013)

I Made More OOAK Polymer Clay Art Baby Dolls

Okay, so that's the fancy way of saying I sculpted some more clay babies!  I really enjoy working with the clay and forming a little doll, but so far, they don't really come out looking like an infant, which was my goal.  I got a new kind of clay (FIMO rather than Sculpey II) and it was nicer to work with, although it got lint covered easier/faster.  I still need to improve but I do think I got a little bit closer!  I need more work on the limbs!  I found a tutorial on how to paint the clay creations using acrylic paint (which I had) and to attach the hair with Liquid FIMO (which I also had). 

So here are the latest two clay babies:

Cody
~5½" tall, soft body, jointed

 

I broke his finger off

The limbs on the left are unpainted and the ones on the right are painted
 

Deborah

All clay body, 2½" tall. I also knit her some little accessories.