Art Dolls (Twenty to Make)

Feb 09

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.