Tutorials

Veins & Creases

 In this tutorial, I will show you how I go about painting creases in a caucasian reborn doll.

First, I start with mixing my genesis heat set paints to get the desired colour. This is a mixture that I have had in my palette for quite awhile and I'm not sure of the mixture, but if mixing a new crease colour I generally start with some flesh 07 mixed with a touch of burnt umber and pyrole red 02 or quinacridone crimson. I mix my crease colour a little thicker than I mix most of my paints, so it is like the consistency of cooking oil.

 Next I take my brush and paint every crease, wrinkle, nook and cranny on the doll's face, head and limbs.

This is how the doll looks after I have painted the creases, but before I have removed the excess paint.

 I then take  my sponge and pounce off any of the excess paint. The sponge won't reach some of the deeper creases on the doll, so I use a large mop brush to pounce those areas. 

Here is a face after the creases have been painted and the excess paint removed. 

Reborning Tutorial

The Base Coat

1. Mix Flesh 08 with odourless thinner.

2. Using a mop brush, cover the vinyl with the flesh 08 mixture.

3. Use a sponge to gently pounce the base coat.

4. Once the base coat is pounced evenly, use a brush to smooth our folds and creases and remove any excess paint in creases.

5. Repeat the process on all limbs and the face.

6. Bake at 268 for 8 minutes. Check the paint with a wet q-tip to make sure the paint sealed.

Here are some free tutorials that I have found online:

REBORNING FROM BEGINNING TO END:

• Shae Reborns Total Tutorial

• Stupid Idiot Productions has tutorials on many reborning aspects

• Reborning a Berenguer - complete tutorial

• Total Tutorial

ROOTING:

• Eve's Realistic Reborns

HAIR CUTTING:

• Images in the Wind

• Angels Unaware

CHANGING EYES

• Changing the eyes in a Berenguer

EYELASHES

• Reborn Supplies tutorial

EYEBROWS:

• Artistique tutorial

PAINTING WITH GENESIS PAINTS:

• Reborn Doll Kits

• Palettes and painting with genesis

• Using Genesis paints for reborns and polymer clay

DYEING MOHAIR:

• Mohair by Debbie has a brief tutorial in her store, and she sells mohair and dye.

• Grandmother's Attic has a detailed tutorial for tea dyeing mohair.

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