As I continue to take many inspiring classes with amazing teachers....EPB, Gloria Winer, Sherry Goshen, Patty Culea and Arly Beryhill....I am now really appreciating this form of art. I am finding that any medium I learn to work with could be used within the doll form.

The other thing i quickly learned is this....I CANNOT needle Sculpt!!! It just doesnt wotk for me (I kind if "rig" things with needle and thread...nothing is precision with me) ....but i did find my way to CLAY! I love clay....I can get lost in it for hours! I tried complete dolls out of clay...but they feel too "statue like" to me so I settled on cloth bodies with clay heads, and a mix of either cloth or clay hands. I did paperclay and then "skinned" them with cloth...and i love smoothness of the cloth but the precision of clay features!

Here are some completed dolls with painted eyes.....