Johnston Original Art Dolls

Your question is a valid one. Yes, we do life scale dolls out of ProSculpt, but we never do them in one piece. No one (to my knowledge) has ever done a life scale polymer clay sculpture in one piece. Curing it would be almost impossible. The way we all do the life scale is by doing them in pieces. Sculpt all of the pieces together and then cut them apart and cure the pieces. We cut them at joints that will not be seen. For example, you can hide the neck joint with a necklace on a lady or a tee shirt on a man. The wrist joint can be hidden with a watch or a bracelet, etc. We put the pieces together using PVC pipe joints. The armature holding the doll together is made of PVC pipe with metal pipe joints from the plumbing world. I wrote a book about how to do that, but it is out of print. I could sell you the pages from the book from a copy machine for a few bucks, but I don't even have a copy of the book left to sell. You may see my life scale Santa Claus at www.artdolls.com under the Gallery section. He was cured in sections, so check it out. Call me on my private line if I can help you at 801-299-9908. Good luck, Jack

Sorry for the bad language, I´m Finnish and I wrote in a hurry, but I hope you understand what I tried to say.

How and where do you cure big dolls? I am artist and I´m making 80cm-130cm (31.5inch-51.2inch) sized dolls of ProSculpt and I would like to learn new techniques/ improve my old ones. I would like to cure the dolls as one, not in pieces like before. Is that even possible? It is hard to find that big oven, at the moment I can´t by one. Also I would love to know how do you put/seam the pieces together after cured? Especially because I don´t want the gap to be seen and I can´t cover all of them under clothes. And whit what do you fill the big dolls? I have use different types of masses, but those have worked just ok, and I would like to find a better one. Thank you for any information and help.