Over the past few years, a truly “puppet boom” has occurred in Russia. Craftswomen create masterpieces in various styles. These are all kinds of dolls from papier-mâché, clay, plastic and even from artificial rubber suede - foamiran. Funny and cute Fofucha dolls (from foamiran) come from hot Brazil. These wonderful "Tropicans" have already taken root in Russia. The craftswomen of our country create bizarre images so that children can play with the doll or that it decorates the interior and suits a particular occasion.
A foamiran doll can be a wonderful gift for both a child and an adult, for example, for the New Year or March 8, for the Day of a medical worker or for the birth of a baby.
We make a doll from foamiran with our own hands. What is needed for this?
With great desire, such a baby can be made with your own hands. To do this, you need a skin- colored foamiran and several more colors that are designed to suit the color of the hair, clothes and accessories of the doll. It should be chosen thicker, no matter what kind of production (Iran or China).
In order for everything to succeed, still need
- A foam ball as the basis for the head and smaller balls for the feet, a foam cone as the basis for the body.
- Pretty thick wire. It will serve as the basis for the legs and a fastening element between the head and body.
- Iron. Without it, you need it in order to warm up the foamiran and make it plastic and suitable for work.
- Glue. It is advisable to have a glue gun and instant glue ("Crystal" glue-gel moment is best).
- Scissors. You will need ordinary scissors and manicure (for small parts). It will be great if there are scissors with a raised edge, they can make a beautiful edge of clothing or curls for hair.
- Skewer or toothpick. They are convenient to transfer the pattern to foamiran.
- Paints (acrylic) and pastel or blush and shade. This can all come in handy for drawing a doll's face.
- For clothing details, you can use not only foamiran, but also weave, braid, lace, depending on which image is conceived.
- For those who first make a doll from foamiran - a master class.
Let's get started. The following is a detailed master class "How to make a doll from foamiran." This is nothing complicated.
Master class "Dolls from foamiran"
It all starts with a plan. The first thing is to come up with an image or find a suitable among the many photos of beauties made by the hands of masters of handmade. Then prepare everything you need and get to work.
The most difficult technically will be the legs (feet with shoes) and the head. But to create a doll from foamiran this master class with step-by-step photos will greatly facilitate the task. Here you need to carefully heat the body foamiran on the iron and pull it onto the foam blanks. The balls for the legs must be cut off, as shown in the figure, and glued together. With a flesh-colored heated foamiran, tightly tighten the workpiece and trim the edges. Cut out the details of sandals and glue the feet.
A little patience and respect will turn out wonderful dolls from foamiran. The master class will step by step describe all the stages of this process.
Then sticks or pieces of wire (slightly longer than the length of the legs) should be wrapped with pieces of flesh foamiran and stick one side into the foot, the other into the body cone. Glue joints.
Cut and glue the details of the dress and jewelry, make pens according to the pattern and glue everything together.
Handles can be simply cut and glued, then they will turn out flat and will neatly lie along the body. And you can make the handles voluminous, like legs. To do this, you need a wire of such length as the hand should be and a little more. Glue the cut palm from one edge, wrap the whole wire with a piece of foamiran in several turns, leaving a slightly sticking tip on the opposite side of the palm. The handle is ready, it can be stuck in the body, glued and bent as you like. In the hands of a doll you can give a bouquet, a handbag or anything, or you can leave it just without anything.
Then proceed to the head. This is a crucial moment. Skin-colored foamiran should be warmed up and stretched over half of the ball, try to pull it a little more along the line marking half on the ball itself. Trim the edges. In the same way we make hair from the back of the ball. We glue the joints and decorate the hairstyle as indicated in the pictures or as you wish. You can braid the braids from the cut strips of foamiran, or you can wrap the strips on a pencil or pen and heat on an iron, you will get curls that are glued to the hair.
We stick a wire or a skewer with one side in the head, the other in the body and glue it. Such a cutie can stand on her own legs, but she can also be put on the edge of the shelf, bending the legs at the knees, or glued to a beautiful original stand.
Obviously, it’s quite easy to make dolls from foamiran in a master class with step-by-step photos. A wonderful doll is ready, it remains to paint the face.
Fofucha doll face painting
Typically, the face of such dolls is drawn as simple as possible. You can use black acrylic paint and draw two eye circles, a nose point and a smile line. Draw cilia and white dots of glare on the eyes. You can brown the doll with real blush using a sponge or brush.
In general, you can draw a face absolutely anything: joyful, embarrassed, sad, dreamy, whatever. Here are examples of faces for a foamiran doll, you can simply sketch them.
These are dolls from foamiran, a face painting workshop will help you finish the job.
Conclusion
Experienced hand-made craftsmen sell unique dolls and offer their customers a master class step by step for making them with their own hands. This is nothing complicated. You can buy dolls from foamiran, a master class for them or whole sets for creativity or present them as a gift to those who love needlework.