Creating an Art Doll, Olga style, Pt. 6 of 7: Making the Clothes

Finished doll

In this multi-part art doll demonstration, Olga Egupets shows us her techniques from start to finish, demonstrating armatures, modeling faces, body parts and props, painting, wigging and creating clothing. When making her dolls, Olga uses a variety of materials, including air dry clays such as Creative Paperclay, LaDoll, Plastiform, Efaplast etc.   This doll has a sewing machine on her lap because she has just finished sewing herself a little black dress. This is Part 6 of 7, 'Making the Clothing'.

In this video, Olga demonstrates her techniques for dressing the doll and making the shoes.  

These videos are in Russian but are easy to follow without the narration. A "captions" feature is available for each video for those that don't speak Russian. If you want to view the captions, mute the sound and then click on (CC) for "Captions". First, click OK for Russian to get it started and then select TRANSLATE, scroll to select your language. The captions are helpful but, like all computerized translations, expect to find a number of errors.

In the next and final segment, Olga will finish up her doll by adding a hairdo using needle felting techniques and creating a decorative display base.

Steps to Creating an Art Doll, Olga style

Parts 1 and 2: Designing the doll, forming the armature and refining the body shape. 

Part 3: Sculpting face, hands and feet. 

Part 4: Painting with acrylics, powders and pastel pencils.

Part 5: Making the Props (stool, sewing machine) 

Part 6: YOU ARE HERE

Part 7:  Creating Wig and Finishing