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Sparrow is beautiful Naomi, you did a fabulous job on her!

wow i think i like her better as caucasian well done hun shes beautiful! (((hugs)))

its amazing how we can make each sculpt look so different but now that you have done this i will be looking more at the biracial sculpts to do as caucasian i usualy just dismiss them as i dont do them but wow you really have somthing here hun (((hugs)))

thanks Pat *buffington* - i think i will enter this one to the comp. I'm pretty pleased with her outcome

Hi rosemarie - they are hand painted. the trick is to use the finest of bristled brush you can get - only a few bristles thin and long that the brush tip is almost as fine as a pin-head. then you wand to use only the tiniest of dilluted paint - with a touch as light as air you want to paint wispy strokes - i usually use to different colours.

If you take a look at my step-by-step of sparows painting you'll see the first pic with eyebrows, they look darker than the second. This is b/c i first did brows with a light brown and cooked them on, i then did an even lighter almost beige in colour painting of the brows. doing the two tone seems to give a light airy look to the brows. And as little bubs seems to have such barely there brow lines and often seem to be more of a wispy lungo hair than definded brow compared to older children this two toning seems to give a more natural appearance.

Bub's also do not have a defined plucked perfect brow line, so i try to keep it wispy, not too dense, and not in a perfect manicured line. Take a look at any of my babies on here and really study closely how my brow line is spaced and coloured. For that matter pay really close attention to anyones babies (i.e on here on ebay etc) that you like the painting on and then set about trying to replicate a simalar look.

remember that untill you cook the paint on you can always wipe it off with a tissue or cotton ball with you slovent (the odorless solvent that you use to thin your genesis paint with) and try, try again.

Thanks, Naomi! This is the first time I've heard of painting and baking the eyebrows in a few steps. I guess that if you learn something one way, it's easy to forget that there can still be all sorts of methods to reach the same (or even better!) result.

You explained the process so well. I think your next project (if you ever have the time with the way you spend every waking moment making your little babies!) could be to write a book!

Thanks again, Naomi. You are one of the very special people who add so much to this forum and to the excitement of newborning/reborning.

Rosemarie

-- Edited by Nai Nai's Nursery at 04:13, 2008-07-26

She is a beautiful sculpt! You did a great job on her!

Ya, wasn't it great that she got that? :D