Linda Kays Studios offer unique hand sculptured artist dolls
ranging from Santa's, Elves, and Gnomes to everyday elder
characters, celebrities, and Fantasy pieces.
Each doll starts out by hand sculpturing using a polymer
clay or plastiline clay. The artist spends a great
deal of time to bring out the character's personality in the
facial features. Glass eyes and natural wool fleeces
and furs are used in combination to get the characters
desired look.
The bodies are constructed by using a wire armature for the
skeleton, and wrapping and stuffing with batting and
fiberfill. A body stocking made from stretchable fabric
is then sewn to cover the entire body.
If the doll is to be reproduced in resin or silicone, the
artist makes a silicone mold of the original sculptured
piece. Then a resin cast is poured and cured under pressure.
Linda Kays Studios only produces low edition sizes to keep
up the value of each piece. Every portion of the doll
making process is artist produced.
Linda Kays Studios also supplies a casting service to the
artist. She creates molds, and reproduction pieces
from the artist's original sculpture, wood carving, or
proto-type, so that the artist can take their creation to a
new level.

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