How to make your own hands dolls

Matreshka – traditional Russian doll, which has long been associated with the Russian folk crafts, and dolls on any taste can be found today in any souvenir shop. You can make the doll your own hands – this toy will be especially valuable for you, and you will be able to make an unusual and original gift to friends and family. To make the doll manually, several techniques.

Instruction

1. If you decided to sculpt a doll out of clay, take the clay sculpture and a specially made cardboard template with which you will get smooth sides matryoshka. The pottery is set on the Potter's wheel, put the blank cardboard template and begin to rotate the circle. Thus, the irregularities smoothed out by the template, and you will only have to fill the extra hole in the clay.
2. Similarly, you can make a matryoshka of simple or sculptural clay. For ease of painting the finished dolls use talc or starch. Apply the powder for a clay or clay, and then cover the doll with latex paint. On top of latex paint, apply painted with acrylic.
3. Also the doll can be made in papier-mache. Take a soft paper – newspaper or packing, and Narva into small pieces. Then take the object, reminiscent of a matryoshka – a vase or a jug and start to form a paste over the pieces of paper, greasing them with white glue. Apply a few layers of paper, each layer promazyvaya glue. Wait until the glue dries, then gently remove the papier mache from the mold. To simplify the task you can cut the billet into two pieces, and then glue them. Flatten the surface of the nesting dolls putty and Prime it and then sand with fine sandpaper.
4. Another way to make the doll is to make it in a glass jar. Take a glass jar of a suitable size and then close it with a lid. Round canister shape from the clay sides and the head dolls, then dolapite its shape in the above-described technique of papier-mache. Grease the molds for dolls vaseline to the finished dried paper was well behind the form. Cover the finished matryoshka lacquer.