Maya's lips

I just could not get the hang of lip painting. I don't have a clear understanding of how to apply the lip color without it looking like lipstick which is what I didn't want. I will have to do extensive research to locate a tutorial on lip painting that can give me a better understanding. Think that they are simply awful.

What I learn from my first doll painting is that I don't like doll kits under 20 inches everything is just to small and very hard for me to do detail work. I do realized that I have three more preemie kits that I need to practice on and that they will probably frustrate the "H" out of me but I refuse to give up. I know that the more I paint the better that I will be no matter how small the features are.

Over all this was a great experience and I am looking forward to my next preemie doll kit LOL.

I will be starting on her tomorrow.

Maya's Arm and legs

Maya's arms and legs where finished with a very thin wash of Yellow Ocher and thinning medium. I think that this wash gave her over all skin color some depth and it took that dirty look away. If you look very closely at the soles of her feet the light and dark skin tone line is to harsh and should have been blended better. I do like her overall skin tone but I think that it is way to dark for a preemie.

What I learned is that I love the thinning medium it gives you great control with the paint and it did give the skin a little texture.

After painting Maya's hair I knew that I was going to have problems with trying to paint her eyebrow. So I practice the brush strokes with my Loew-cornell comfort liner 18/0 and no matter how many times

I tried it just looked awful. So I began to practice with a pencil and paper and began to see that I had much better control and they looked soft and very real. I went to my local craft store and purchase a Prismacolor pencil. They didn't have soft black or any black pencils and since I didn't know how this was going to turn out I was only welling to buy one pencil so brought the color espresso. As you can see the Espresso color didn't match her hair color but I think that they are pretty good for my first try.

What I learn is that I am much better a drawing them on then painting and that all hair colors should match and that they should be soft colors not hard or harsh. If you click on the pictures you can see them much better.

Maya's painting is done

I used my Princeton Ex. Long Liner 20/0. I did have some problems with paint control. What I learned is that the brush needs to have a lot less paint on it and I need to get better control of my brush. I use the color Carbon Black. I think it was a little bit to strong it should have been a much more softer color. Overall my first hair painting experience was not that bad and I feel with practice I could nail this process with no problem and have a much better out come.