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Modeling various dough figures is an art that anyone can master. Experienced craftswomen have secrets that they do not reveal, but the basic techniques have been known for a long time.
First of all, you need to decide what exactly you want to sculpt. You can make little animals, fish hairpins, small figures of people. You can come up with an interesting shape for the animals, for example, make a huge head and a small body. Children really like these figures.
Experienced craftswomen sculpt gnomes, Little Red Riding Hoods, butterflies with large, detailed wings, and realistic figures of people. Some people like to make male and female figurines dressed in classic Russian folk costumes or in stylized costumes borrowed from illustrations of Russian folk tales. The so-called character dolls and genre everyday sketches are very popular. For example, a girl is braiding her hair or combing her hair, or heading somewhere - in a simple shirt and with a knapsack.
It is especially interesting to sculpt dolls in folk costumes. It would seem that you have to make the same Russian costume every time, but in fact there is such variety in it. There are more than twenty types of Ryazan costumes alone, each village has its own special one. And Moscow, Penza and other provinces also have their own costumes. Do you know what Western fashion designers sometimes do? They buy our dolls, study the costumes, take parts from them and use them in their designs. Right in its entirety, without changing anything. That's how rich our Russian costume is.
How to make play dough
You need to take the same amount of rice flour and salt. Then add water, enough so that the dough does not spread. Don't be afraid, the dough won't take up too much. You will also need diligence, skill and imagination.
The easiest way to start is with miniature dolls. You can safely make a small doll – up to 4 centimeters in height. But it's better to start with even smaller figures.
The main trick when sculpting dolls is that you need to do everything quickly and under no circumstances overmold the dough, otherwise the doll will look forced and gray. And if you tune in and quickly mold the doll, then its skin will look like real skin: warm and lively in appearance.
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Some tips from experienced craftswomen
If your doll is wearing a suit, you need to put it on sequentially: first the underskirt, then the shirt, then the outer skirt, and then the warmer or apron.
If you plan to hang this doll, you need to insert a wire loop inside when sculpting. But it’s worth twisting it inside the doll so it doesn’t fly out.
Important! Start sculpting if you don’t have any wounds or abrasions on your hands. When finished, wash your hands and use cream, otherwise your skin will dry out.
Now you have made a doll. Now it needs to be baked in a well-heated oven at a temperature of 100-150 degrees. Bake until cooked through and noisy. Now the doll needs to be cooled and painted with any paints you have in the house: watercolor, gouache, fluorescent. Then coat with any colorless nitro varnish.
Salt gives the dough a wonderful twist. The texture of fabric made from salt dough looks completely different from clay. Brocade is made from dough and is brocade. And the doll’s skin seems to be alive. This is why craftswomen love dough.
How to make a horse
This is perhaps the second most popular figure sculpted in Dymka. Therefore, when telling how to make a Dymkovo toy from salt dough, one cannot fail to mention the horse.
Any horse consists of several parts: an oval body, oval legs, a head. When they come together, the animal's neck appears. All that remains is to add triangle ears, a tail and a mane - for the latter, intertwined strands are quite suitable. And so that when drying the horse’s legs do not give way or turn into flat cakes, you can place a foil roller under the figurine.
If desired, you can put a rider on the horse or attach a carriage to it - all this will be in the spirit of Dymkovo toys.
Christmas toys made of cotton wool
I would also like to share an interesting master class with “Handicraft Formulas” (photo on a phone, sorry for the quality), and the works of our readers.
And this is the master class that interested me. I saw a Christmas tree decorated with toys from the times of our grandmothers , these were made from cotton wool until the 60s (maybe someone remembers). Now such toys are literally experiencing a second youth! And they sell well
