If you think that dolls are just for children, you haven’t seen any art dolls. Express yourself any
way you wish with these creations, made from just about anything you can think of and many you can’t,
and fill your home with conversation pieces worth talking about.
This book takes inspiration from some of the earliest art of all, with mother goddess figures, abstract
shapes, mermaids, jumping jacks, peg dolls and more. I think you really need to see this book to
understand what it is all about, but a lot of it is about celebrating individuality and showing how far
you can get from the basic human form in some projects and still create something "human." Pegs, tin
cans, buttons, ready-made doll forms, beads, wire, wood and paper are a few of the surprising materials
pressed into service and made into these amazing creations. Create an African doll out of wire, string
buttons onto thread to make a person, adorn an artist’s model and create an almost amoebic figure out of
glass beads, with a glass heart. This being a Twenty to Make book each of the twenty projects has another
idea for a variation on the basic theme. This is as much about letting your imagination run riot as
following formal instructions, and is all rather liberating. The craft book to buy for anybody who wants
to have a go at something a bit different.
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