[.ca] Fantastic Figures: Ideas and Techniques Using the New Clays (ISBN 0914881000)

From Amazon.com:
In Anatomy of a Doll master dollmaker Susanna Oroyan gave us a definitive work on cloth dollmaking. In Fantastic Figures she concentrates on unique dolls made from polymer and paper clays, especially those that combine sculpted clay with cloth bodies. Emphasizing innovation rather than imitation, she provides lengthy and detailed information on the clays themselves; on sculpting the head, hands, feet, and legs; on finishing medium and painting methods; and on constructing the body, clothes, hair, accessories, and even display stands and tableau settings. The appendix discusses doll clubs and organizations and offers advice from other doll experts. Numerous line drawings and diagrams supplement the text, but the best feature is the set of exquisite color photographs of dolls made by 60 professional doll artists, some of whose creations are almost frightening in their startling realism.

Fantastic Book!!!:
This book is wonderful, it covers every aspect of dollmaking. If this is your first time making a doll or your 100th you will find new and helpful information in this book. Definatly add this book to your doll making library.

My 1st Dollmaking Book:
What a fantastic book. I have used it so much as a reference in my dollmaking that I have the pages falling out of my book. Susanna is so encouraging of your own style of dollmaking. Creative impulse just flows from her book.

Fantastic Instructions:
Susanna Oroyan is a truly gifted teacher. Not only does she give easy-to-follow instructions, she teaches her readers to think for themselves and discover their own solutions. I enjoyed the examples she presented of other artists' work and her references to the photographs when explaining how to achieve a specific effect. Oroyan takes the reader from the basic to the most advanced techniques and it helped me complete a figure that had been giving me trouble. Fantastic Figures is a book I will return to again and again as I work on developing my own particular style.

Excellent Resource:
This book is excellent! She covers everything; sculpting tools, armatures, anatomy, different clays, painting, costuming, wigging and the list goes on. Comments and tips from various doll artists are included with some amazing photographs of their work. The photo's alone are inspiring. Great instruction and a book definately worth having!

A Great Book, But For The Advanced Artist.:
The book "Fantastic Figures: Ideas & Techniques Using the New Clays," by Susanna Oroyan is a great book on advanced techniques in clay. However, for a beginner like me it was a bit overwhelming. So I am placing it on my book shelf and hope to be skilled enough to use it some day. As the dolls in it are great examples of OOAKmanship!