This charming boy
is an antique reproduction. His
clothes, hair, and boots are all molded.
His facial features are all molded including his teeth, iris of the eye,
and the pupil of the eye. This makes
him especially easy to paint. He stands
about 7 inches tall. Roberta is his
favorite playmate. She will be featured
in a future article. Both molds are
available from Mystic molds.
1) Raw greenware
- White is best.
2) Bowl of water
to clean brushes and dip fingers into.
3) Towel for drying
fingers and blotting brushes – diaper works too.
4) CPC (Classic
Porcelain Colors) a. Flesh Pink b. Maze
(hair) c. Milk Chocolate (collar, shorts, sleeve cuffs) d. Angel blue (tunic,
sleeves, socks) e. French Blue (tie, and belt) f. Earth (shoes)
5) Lead pencil
for marking paint areas.
6) Several
different size brushes to paint with – a taclyon fiber is best.
7) Sharp blade
such as an exacto knife to quickly remove mistakes. OR Perfect White from the CPC line of colors.
8) EZ stroke or
One Stroke – white of eyes and teeth.
9) China paint
for facial features: a. First Kiss (cheeks, lips) b. Jumeau Brown
(accent on hair, eye lashes, eye brows) c. blue (iris) d. black (pupil)
1) Use the
largest Taclyon brush you are comfortable with.
2) Keep a towel
near you to clean your hands. Opening
the jars of color often gets color on your fingers that can be transferred to
your greenware.
3) It is wise to
mark each area that you have finished two coats on with two check marks using a
light stroke of the lead pencil. If you
get interrupted, mark all areas with one coat with one check.
4) If you get a
color where you don’t want it, drop what you are doing immediately and scrap
the color off the area you don’t want it on.
There is also a product called perfect white (CPC) that you can paint
on, let dry, and then paint with the color you wanted.
1) Clean
greenware. The TIBs technique is the
recommended method because there is no harmful dust to breath while cleaning
the raw greenware. And the detail remains
in place. Allow greenware to dry
completely. Replace any detail that
might have been removed cleaning.
2) Using a
pencil, lightly draw a line around each area to be painted, completely
separating each area from its neighboring area.
3) Arrange jars
of color in the order you will use them.
Use the skin tones first, then the hair colors second. After that put
the lightest colors first, the darkest color last.
4) Using your
first color, dip brush; apply to the middle of the area to be painted. Spread
the color outward to the edge of the outlined area. Unload the brush in the center of the area to be colored. Remember these colors are more accurately
considered a dye – not a surface paint.
It soaks into the porcelain.
5) After you have
covered the area with one coat, apply a second coat
6) “One Stroke”
or EZ Stroke is applied on the greenware with two coats for white teeth, and
the eyes.
7) Fires to a
cone 6.
8) Use your
medium of your choice to china paint the face and accent the hair and
clothing. The one stroke holds the
china paint – doesn’t allow it to slide like china paint will on porcelain
bisque. This makes it possible to apply
the iris, and then apply the pupil without firing in between the colors.
T & D Dolls and Supplies
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