SOLD!!! Sold to HIS new Mommy! Denise, I hope you LOVE him as much as you do all your other babies from Wolfsong Nursery! THANK YOU! Link to Video Box opening will come when available!
Wynter was lovingly painted with Genesis Heat Set Paints over a layer of Coastal Scents and Pan Pastel powders set with the first color wash. I used the primary method, building her skin tone carefully using only red, blue and yellow paint super thinned in layers so transparent that you see the wetness on the vinyl but not color. After about 12 rounds of primary washes (a round is three layers, one of each primary color; that’s a total of about 36 layers of color) it was time for the texture layers. The Washes give you the basic skin tone, then texture layers give you the depth. Texture layers are applied with a plucked sponge and a tad thicker paint (still transparent however) and in Wynter’s case she had about 15-20 layers before I was happy with her “skin”. Then came the mottling layers, the only place on my babies I use any color other than Primary colors. Magenta, Purple/Blue and sometimes green if the tone seems to need it. Then it was back to the powders to add blushing, reinforcing undertones, shadows, shading etc. All the things that give the baby depth and realism. I also worked on the lips and ears as well as the philtrum (that little dip between nose and lip) and lips. Then a coat of Heat set varnish, a recipe of several different heat set mediums designed to give the baby a realistic feel as well as look. This is the point where the baby bakes multiple times, cooling completely in between. I bake the babies after a few layers from the beginning washes, when it “feels” like the right time, but this final bake is broken up into three to four bakes to make sure everything is cured and set properly. At this point I added the eyes which really brings the baby to life.
Then it was time to “flesh out” the hair. I took several shades of Prism Pencil adn added colors, shading and highlights making the hair really pop and look 3D. This is duplicated on the eyebrows to make them seem like the newborn “barely there” look. Once the hair was done, I added two magnets, one up on the side of her head (for a magnetic hair accessory) and one behind her lips for a magnetic pacifier (included).
Then comes the fun part. I put her together, using silicone pads to make the bottom and tummy feel more real and used 2 different types of polyfill and high quality #3 glass beads .75-1mm in a microfiber bags; one in the body, one in the head for weight…make sure to support her little head, just like a real newborn. And once her heart was added, she was finished ! Now there are a couple of places I’ve found some flaws that I believe are in the vinyl. Due to those (ask for photos or go to her page) I’m selling her as a BooBoo baby.
What makes her a boo boo baby?
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