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| Olive stole this dress from a beautiful rag doll that my mom made over 25 years ago. Her arms and legs are from Dixie's IW pattern, blown up to 200%. She's a BIG girl! She fits into a 12 month toddler size dress. |
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| This is the first time that I have ever painted in oils. It's much different than acrylics. But I really think this doll looks just like my other dolls, all painted with acrylics. I keep thinking that I must be missing something special that I could be doing with the oils. Maybe I should take an oil painting class. |
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| Olive and little Daisy June |
You paint so well that your acrylics do look like oils and vice versa. But, for a painter, oil is often superior to acrylic due to the blending/drying qualities of acrylic...they dry fast...and the abilty to blend mutiple layers of oils for luminosity. If you are using organic components to make a doll, oil is more traditional. Nice job on the doll! Quite lovely and quite beautiful!
ReplyDeleteOlive is beautiful! I really admire your work! Your dolls are simply gorgeous.
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Elaine, Olive is marvelous, and the dress is perfection, I adore her side part. You did very well with the oils but I agree with you, I don't see much difference with the oils than with acrylic. I have taken classes in oils and if painting a large area with lots of blending and colors they are better, but I like the acrylics for dolls. I use both a flow agent and a blending medium and I like the fast drying, I think it is just the artist's choice. But Olive Oil is perfect in the oil, great name by the way.
ReplyDeleteМне очень нравятся Ваши куклы! В них есть история! Эксперименты с маслом удачны
ReplyDeleteno importa la pintura...tus muñecas tienen un aire tan especial...!!
ReplyDeleteShe's beautiful...I like her size. My daughter always preferred to have a "baby" that is actually baby-sized. Even if it was almost as big as she was. :~)
ReplyDeleteIf you prefer acrylic, then use it! You have at least investigated the other to see about it.