It's been a busy day for me but a good one.  I finished the tutorial showing all of you how I made this short hair cut.  The pictures shown is the wig in the tutorial.  I will have the tutorial up tomorrow.  Let everyone know when its up.

The pictures showing below will be another up coming tutorial on creating a bob hairstyle or something to look like one. In the pictures Im showing when you root the hair into a wig cap how you get that lift you need at the root.  When gluing the ends of the hairs and gluing the ends to the head doesn't give you a natural look of the way our hair lays some what.  So, I will be going for a short may be a wispy bob cut..  We shall see.  Hope you join in on my art channel and as always I will post when I have the tutorial up.  Thank you

Showing an up coming tutorial another way to insert eye's I use this for ball jointed dolls

Wanted to share something here with all of you and tried hard to get a real clear pic but its so cloudy here. In this pic Im trying to show you a couple of things. One is another way I set eyes in and is basically a way I will do ball jointed. Second I wanted to show in the picture the foundation I used and what it looks like. Around the eye is raw clay and I thought you could see the difference in color. I will have a tutorial on this technique if you don't have an air brush. The way I applied it is somewhat different then my other way.

Think outside of the box

I wanted to share something with many of you back in art school my teacher gave us a project once a month and it was called Think outside of the box... She would put up a picture of us to all look at and we were all to write an essay and it had to be in story form and instructional of what idea we thought of. This was the biggest eye opener for me and to observe all the different idea's and thought patterns we all had over the same picture. Then the teacher picked the one she felt would be a great challenge for all of us and we had to take the idea and create it. It was also amazing to see all the different ways everyone created. Some were alike and many were different. Then the teacher said something that stuck with me and till this day I carry it on to others. She said now you see a picture and you all were to have thoughts about it. Then you were to go and create it. The question is do you feel you own your thoughts? Do you feel your the only one that can have a creative thought and no one else can have your thought. And if someone had one of your creative thoughts would you then feel like they took your idea? Well hopefully we all the know the answer to it all we really don't own any thought its already out there.
Today giving a class we had think out side of the box. Now I can't wait for all of us to play the game. Even me too!!! This is expansion and growth in your own self and art. I have taken many class's along time ago and sadly to say many teachers in a class just teach what your going to make. They don't go beyond the project and find the story form.. I found with great teachers that went further and outside of the project we learned so much and more then if we were to just sit there and watch the teacher show the steps and then you follow. I want to thank my students for giving me the opportunity to expand with myself.

New video how to make a wig cap and create a wispy hairstyle for your polymer clay dolls

Hope you enjoy will be making more video's on different hairstyles.  Please subscribe to my art channel its free and I show you the whole process.  Come and join in on my Facebook Fan Page would love to see you there and what your making.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5-xvME_-iE

View pictures below. This wig was made for my commission fashion doll tutorial and I will have the tutorial on my youtube art channel soon.

I wanted to share something with my youtube followers. It was back in the early 2000 when I had been an active seller with Ebay. At that time polymer clay dolls were getting noticed and at a rapid pace. I feel very blessed I had fallen into an era of time selling my work and becoming noticed to my buyers. As I was making my dolls I was taking a lot of what I had learned with porcelain dolls and applying it to polymer so things went relatively easy for me. There were some techniques and products that everyone seemed to be doing and using but I wasn’t comfortable and I was having to figure out how to do things different and feel good and secure with my own way and one of them I want to share with you is applying hair to your dolls. It bothered me so much to be taking hair and just sticking onto the dolls head. I just never liked the technique and felt it was a sloppy job.. I even took a dolls head and I drilled tiny holes throughout the whole head and then inserted small strands of hair into the holes. It worked wonderfully but took forever lol. So, I went back to gluing the hair back onto the dolls head. Every time I did I felt again it was sloppy and I need to do it different. So, I made a wig cap and I sewed strands of hair onto the wig cap and then glued it all on to the dolls head. It took some time but I felt much better but I didn’t follow through with every doll. Sometimes glued then others I made the wig cap and sewed the hair on to the cap.
I had an auction up and I had several new buyers email me and they were asking how I was applying the hair. Well the doll I had up was one that I made a wig cap and I told the buyer the truth it was hair sewing on a wig cap and then glued on the head. I also mentioned sometimes I just glue the hair to the dolls head with very good glue. She said this to me and it’s when I decided to go with a way that felt right to me and I had been on a right track. She said, many dolls she had purchased the hair was falling off by strands and she didn’t want to buy anymore dolls if their hair was glued onto the head she wanted the hair to be secured better. I totally understood what she was saying and at that time many people were coming into sculpting and selling and they were using glues that weren't holding up so that caused a problem with buyers trusting the product. So, that alone made me think more and I realized again that my thinking had been leading me with a better product.
There are many different ways to making wig caps and rooting but you just need to practice and see what is more interesting and enjoyable to making. And many of you may always use glue and that is what’s comfortable to you not saying here it’s wrong. For people that are new to this world of sculpting just make sure if you choose to apply hair strands with glue your using very good glue.

How I smooth my clay

Okay everyone thank you to my utube subscribers for your beautiful and many emails. So, your liking the tips. Alright here is one for today. Since I work with a very firm clay I don't have as much smoothing ability with my clay as most people do. Here is a tip that I truly cherish so much. View the pictures they will explain then decide if you would like to try it. If you don't like it then cook with it I love it and its so healthy. Also I use it for and eye cream and face. My hands to because the polymer clay tends to dry my hands out a lot. So, when I go to bed is when I use it not the day Im sculpting. Only if Im needing to smooth my clay.