Johnston Original Art Dolls

Pat Moulton was our guest speaker on the 4th of June. You may read her post and those of the artists who make baby dolls. Enjoy!

Kelly Yes I will have my kit so just let me know Pat

Thank you Jack for having me on your forum and to evey one who made time for our chat. Have a good evening pat

Thank you Jack for this time. Have a good evening.

Thanks Pat, it was nice to have you on the artdolls forum. It is always nice to have you share your ideas with other artists. We are pleased to hear of your future plans. Thanks, Jack

Thanks Pat. I will keep that in mind. If you have a kit I may just be contacting you soon.

Yes thank you Pat and Jack for this event. Pat I want to chat with you soon about your class shedule on baby sculpts.

Thank you Kelly very much and be sure to let me know how you are doing with your sculpt you can email me to keep me updated and thank you

Judy yes I have classes and and you can contact me for your area and if some one wants for me to come to teach where they are contact me at patmoulton@adelphia.net

Thank you so much Pat. I appreciate your time and your insights. I'm looking forward to trying this out. Good luck with all of your endeavors. Have a beatiful evening.

Kelly yes I think you can get a lot of the joints from them at a good price. How exciting I really feel I teach in a very easy way to follow. Jut keep your grandauthers picture and blow it up to the size you want to sculpt than use the deviders to measure the features you will be surprised how you wil be able to do it . I woul duse a 24 mm eye for your full size sculpt. My babies are diefferent sizes I love making the 9" un to the 22 " Babies . And yes the 17 " baby should take 4 LBs of clay

You may ask one more question and then Pat's time will be up. Thanks, Jack

That is great! I know I will want to get the DVD and all the supplies from you asap! Are you doing any classes?

LOL I guess I type slow ( LOL ) yes it is exciting time with the DVD and soon the book it was the right timing to make all of the supplies to help out on the part that no one likes making the armatues

Thank you. I've ordered supplies from them and they are very good. I'm really looking forward to watching your technique and trying it out. I'm hoping to make a baby that looks something like my youngest grand daughter and this should really help. What size eyes do you use in a full size baby? How big is the baby on average? I think your babies were about 17" long that I was looking at earlier. (They are beautiful!) Does one that size take the 4 or 5 pounds of clay?

Judy yo uare so right I have been asked for many years when teaching my sculpting classes to make the armatures for the arms and legs when they used the head armatures they really wanted to have the limbs so I have them being made right now and will have them ready soon so check back with me

Sorry Pat I was trying to ask my question while you were giving us the great news!!!

Kelly I do not but know a lot of the doll supply companies do like CR'S crafs do

Pat I forgot to ask about armatures. Will you do the arm and leg armatures so we can purchase those? I think everyone wuld love to have help with that!

I also wanted to let you know I made the Armatures that I used in the DVD I have 3 sizes and being I have sculpted babies for the last 7 years and knew what the head need to be shaped for the sculpt that is why I had to make the armatures for evey one . Great news My Limb armatures will be here soon for the legs and arms I have been asked for the last few years to do that and so now that the DVD will be out felt like ti was time

Thank you Pat. So you carry the bear joints too?

Oh wow that is great! So then we will know for sure everything is correct for that size baby. Will this be in a kit?

Hi Judy , Yes I carry all of the supplies for sculpting a baby from the tools to the hair so what every you need I have it and you can order from me

Hi Kelly, I have made ful sculpted babies that are all made of clay and also the full size babies that will be on the DVD on a clothe body that joints are in th earms and they are bear joints. I ao so pleased you have ordered the DVD that is great

Hi Pat. I was wondering about supplies to do baby sculpts. Can we order those from you?

Yes Middleton has at least 8 babies of mine some are 9" and thoes will be out in 2008 but the other ones will be outh some time thins year with a preemie and a special baby

Hi Jack and Pat. Thank you for spending this time. I have never made a full size baby doll. I sculpted an 8" baby with cloth body and cotterpin jointing. It came out really cute. Are your dolls cloth bodied Pat and how are they jointed? I've ordered your DVD and can't wait to see it! Thanks again.

I would also like to say is was wondeful to share my ideas with all of you in the DVD it took me many years to make a easy way to sculpt babies and I love sharing my ideas with all of you

Another question was asked by Barbara in the UK. Will you be making more dolls for Middleton Doll company? When? Tell me a little about what I can expect to see?

My One Of a kind dolls sell for $1,200 and up . It takes me severla days for the head and for each limb it takes me at least 3 hours each, For the amount of clay about 4 lbs and ofr larger dolls at least 5 lbs. You can see my dolls on my website www.patmoultonsbabycollection.com I will be at the Idex show in Las Vegas show this month and EXPO in DC in August

You may ask your questions live and we will pass them on to Pat. She will be with us until 6:30 tonight. MST

Welcome Pat. We are pleased to have you as our guest speaker tonight. We have several questions for you to answer that came in on my e-mail. !. How much to you sell your one-of-a-kind dolls for? 2. How long does it take you to make a doll? 3. How many bars of clay does it take to make a life scale baby? 4. Where can I see your dolls? and a followup question, will you be there so I can meet you? You may answer these questions when ever you are ready. Jack

Use this "thread" to speak to Pat. Do not change the subject, just reply to this thread. That way we won't have questions that we can't find. Thanks, Jack If you have problems getting on, or just want to ask your question on the phone, you may call me toll free at 800-290-9998. I will be hear from now until we are finished tonight.

When posting a question to Pat, don't change the thread, just ask your question and send a "reply". You will find the "send reply" button at the bottom of the blank page you are writing you question on. THanks, Jack

Please, use this post to visit or ask questions of Pat. Just type in your questions or statements and "send reply". I will monitor the questions and see that Pat gets to evryones comments. Have fun and learn all you want to know about sculpting baby dolls. Thanks, Jack

We had a wonderful evening with Pat Moulton. She was our first guest speaker, but surely not our last. We had 59 active questions and answers in the thirty minutes she was on the air. We had 2,800 hits on the forum for the day she was on. I will leave it on the forum as long as you are still reading it. Our next guest is Mark Dennis on the 6th of April. He should be a great hit too. I feel like the forum is going to be a great asset to the doll makers of America.

Pat has been the most giving mentor and I know she will be such a help to anyone who asks.

Thank you very much Jack for having me and I am happy to help any one out if they email me but be paitence with a reply . Good night to every one and thank you for asking me questions Pat

Hugs to you Judy a great artist you are and well desivered to be known

Kim I sculpted adult dolls in the begging and than children dolls I won Dolls Awards of Excellence in 1999 for my child doll Abby but never felt that my passion was meet until I started to sculpt babies that was 7 years ago so no I never chased the market but my passion was meet with the babies . If you smooth as you go it will be easy

See how wonderful this lady is!! Thanks Pat.

I have never attempted to make a baby, probably because it is much harder to make as the clay would have to be smooth. Do you do babies because there is more of a market for them or is it your passion

Thanks so much for being our guest speaker. Your posts will be on the Forum for anyone to read for as long as the readers are enjoying the comments. Thanks again for joining us. If you wish to speak personally with Pat you may reach her at patmoulton@adelphia.net. When you write her please keep your questions short. She is a very busy sculptor, but is willing to answer your questions. We will have Pat back again when her book is released in December. Mark Dennis will be our guest speaker next month. He will be here on the 6th of April from 9:00 P.M Eastern Standard Time to 9:30. He will answer any question you have about making a full body sculpted polymer doll. He specializes in realizm. He will be a joy for all of us to speak to.

Pat do you ever do seminars to teach sculpting?

I am so looking forward to it. I did want to say that Judy Porter is my Illastrator for the book ;she is such a wonderful talent and friend

Judy yes the book will have a lot of photos for all the steps and the great thng about a book is you can hold that page open as long as it takes I do agree with you about Jacks books Ihave them all my self

Oh that would be awesome Pat!!!

Sharon yes I will have every thing to make the full size babies I know you will be able to do and I hope in the future to make one on the small babies with the armatures makes it so easy

Debbie it is always so much fun for me to share what I know and any time just ask me I am happy to help others

Will the book have a lot of step by step photos? That is always such a help! Jack publishes beautiful books. I think I have them all !!

Well I know Jack will be pleased that I worked all day on the book and it is very exciting to put all I have learned over the years on paper

Pat your are very nice to help, I really appreciate it.

I have been avoiding making life size babies but with your new book it sounds like everything I need will be in there. I am anxious for it to come out. Up to now I only sculpt the little ones. Thanks Pat.

Kim I use glass eyes I just love how real they look

Debbie I am so happy to help and for the mouth I just know I can make it easy for you ad the one thing I love to sculpt is the ears I feel I can show every one a easy way how to

Do you use glass or silicone eyes

I have already received the first three chapters from Pat. At the rate we are going we should have the book printed in October and ready for the commercial shelves by Christmas of 2007. We will announce it in Doll Crafter, Dolls, and Contemporary Doll Magazine when it is available. We will take reservations from collectors early, but will not charge until the book is actually delivered.

Judy the book will cover how tomake armatures , sculpting with oven baked eyes, applying mohair wigs that can be baked in so they look like the hair really comes out of the head, Sanding and painting attaching the baby to the body and the stuffing of the baby and now looks like I need to add the painting of the eyes

Thank you Jack it was an honor to be asked by Middleton to sculpt for them it is an artist dream

Thank You Pat. I know what I'm doing wrong now. Sculpting the lips....I better wait for the book. They frustrate me everytime!! :o))

Kim I have been sculpting for 27 years and it will always be a learning process .. I will be sure to have my first dolls in the book so every one can see where I started form and if you love it enought you can do it to

So can you tell us some of the subjects the book will cover and when it will be out?

Thanks Judy I am so pleased the middleton have desided to keep my Austin baby a OOAK for the public

WOW Thank you Jeanie I am so pleased on how they are turning out

Hi Debbie when sculpting your nose be sure to bring it out far enough on the face and turn you sculpt so you can see the side view .] When I add the nose to my sculpts I add a bit of clay under the eye scokets and across the face this will hold up the nose so it will not be flat

Pat is the third member of the Professional Doll Makers Art Guild to contract with the Lee Middleton Doll Company. Reva Schick and Jane Pinkstaff are the other two. This puts Pat among the best commercial doll artists in America.

thankyou for the website address. How long have you been making dolls Pat?

I got an email from a doll company today with the photos of your dolls, AWESOME PAT!

Hi Kim welcomed to the art fo dolls it is the best I have to say . You can see my work on my website www.patmoultonsbabycollection.com and at Middleton Dolls as well as Paradise Galleries,Merry Mettings, Ashton Drake, Chrisma Brand, and HSE in Germany . I was very happy this year to recive the Nomation for Dolls Awards OF Excellence as well at the Doty Industy's Choice Award .

Hi Pat!! Looking forward to your new book. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong when after adding the nose, mouth, etc. my baby looks flat faced from the side?

I just looked at Pats website at www.patmoultonsbabycollection.com. She seems to have about ten different one-of-a-kind and silicone dolls. She also has Tender Touch Kreations and meet the artist.

Oh and I went to Middleton's site. They are wonderful!

I would like to share with everyone that 2 of my dolls were released with Middleton Doll Company yesterday , it was a wonderful surprise to me .

I am fairly new to the art doll world so please forgive the question but where may we see your work? Kim

When you blow the photographs up to the scale of your sculpture do you do a front, side and top view? Where do you have the blow ups made?

Yes I use Callapers as well as dividers and using pictures that I bring up to size for the size of head I want to sculpt

I have not thought of painting the eyes in the book being the first baby will be sleeping but I will give it some thought and it will be a good idea to show how to paint the eyes thank you for bring it to my attention

Pat, how do you keep the sculpt accurate and in scale, do you use a set of caliphers?

When sculpting small babies it is best to make the fingers in a roll at the same time and put them on one by one and make th efinger nails fist befor adding them to the hand

Will this technique be discussed in your new book?

Hi Jeanie thank you for the welcome

Thank you Judy I am so pleased to be here and share with every one and I am hoping the the book on Life Size Sculpted Babies will answer many questions that I have learned over the years and want to share with evry one

Hi, Pat! Hi, everyone!

HI Pat. I sculpt small babies 5-8 inches. What is the best way to sculpt their hands? Cut the fingers in or add them one at a time. I find I tend to get them too flat. I do not use an armature since they are so small.

Hi Pat. We are excited you are here!

Yes I Paint the eyes in layers with Acriclic paints and let them dry before applying the glaze

Do you paint the eyes in layers and let it dry between applications?

Hi Nancy is their any thing you wanted to ask me ?

One of the early questions was how to you paint your eyes and how to you make them shinny?

Hi Kim nice to hear from you and I think you asked early what to use for making painted eyes shinny I use Sculpey Glaze shinny

Hello ladies, I'm pleased you are here. Feel free to ask Pat anything you like.

Hi Every one I am so pleased to be here and thank you for asking me

Hey Jack I'm in. Kim Stout

Hi, I am looking forward to the session. Regards, NancyB

Pat Moulton will be speaking in a very few minutes. Just sign in to this thread and watch for her comments. You may ask questions if you like or just read the comments. Please make your comments short and to the point. Give her time to answer your questions before you ask a second question. Jack Johnston will be the host and monitor. I hope you enjoy the next 30 minutes with our friend and professional doll maker, Pat Moulton