Fantastic Figures: Ideas & Techniques Using the New Clays

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Summary: Fantastic Instructions
Review: 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.

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Summary: A Great Book, But For The Advanced Artist.
Review: 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!

Rating:
Summary: A Great Book, But For The Advanced Artist.
Review: 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!

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Summary: Excellent Resource
Review: 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!

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Summary: Fantastic Book!!!
Review: 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.

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Summary: Fantastic Figures
Review: This book, and its companion, Designing the Doll, are both fabulous. The text is clear and easy to read, the line drawings are excellent, and the wide array of figures in photographs is very impressive. The book is heavily illustrated, and Susanna not only knows what she's doing, but she also write a great book about it. I'm a professional sculptor, and so often times the books fall far short of their expectation. Not these! Susanna comes through with flying colors. A must have for anyone doing small figure crafting with the new polymer clays.

Rating:
Summary: Fantastic Figures
Review: This book, and its companion, Designing the Doll, are both fabulous. The text is clear and easy to read, the line drawings are excellent, and the wide array of figures in photographs is very impressive. The book is heavily illustrated, and Susanna not only knows what she's doing, but she also write a great book about it. I'm a professional sculptor, and so often times the books fall far short of their expectation. Not these! Susanna comes through with flying colors. A must have for anyone doing small figure crafting with the new polymer clays.

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Summary: My 1st Dollmaking Book
Review: 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.