GENESIS HEAT SET PAINTS Reborn Doll Tips 4 Your Babies

Using Genesis Non-Toxic Artist Oils

Genesis paints are favored amond many reborn doll artists worldwide. They will not dry out & remain workable and are never permanently set until they have been set to a temperature of 265 degrees Farenheit. They're highly concentrated & a small .5 oz jar can be used on dozens of dolls. They're simply fabulous, but for beginning reborn artists, there are unexpected challenges that you may face when you begin that you probably won't find answers on how to overcome in any other video or tutorial.

Getting the feel for how to get the results that you are trying to achieve may be a little easier with a little more information.....so, don't give up! If you're having challenges, and your first baby turns out looking like a child that certainly only a mother could love, you are not alone. Remember that when you're trying something new, you're assuradly going to face challenges. Hopefully you'll find some answers here that will help you overcome them.

Probably the most important thing to remember is you do not want to end up with a baby that LOOKS "painted" & you can always add additional layers of paints, but if you use too much, the result will be a very "cakey" look, that can not be fixed. At this point, you have no other option than to break out my favorite- GOOF OFF! -and start over again. Remember that you are going for very subtle changes in each step.

Application of subtle veining:

Once you have your color mixed(and it should be thinned well with odorless mineral spirits, to about the consistancy of water colors), using a liner brush(I generally use a #10/0 gold taklon liner), first swirl the brush around in the paint. The paints are more dense than the mineral spirits and sink to the bottom- swirling the brush stirs up the paint and catches on the brush.

Touch the tip of the brush to a cosmetic wedge & let the excess spirits be absorbed out, otherwise you won't get clearly defined veining, and more of a runny, blue blotchy mess =)

As you paint each vein, use a clean portion of a cosmetic wedge to blot, and even rub if neccessary, along the painted area, until it's very faint. Pay close attention to the ends of the veins so that they fade out.

To know where to add veining, look at baby photos, or use your own hands/feet as a guide to get an idea of where visible veining should be.

If you get it too dark, simply apply straight mineral spirits to a cosmetic wedge and use to rub out the excess.

There is no need to set with heat after this step.

Adding flesh coat:

Always paint your dolls in natural light. There is no substitute for natural lighting when creating your reborns. You simply can not achieve the same results in realism in artificial lighting. Also, you don't need to only paint around high noon. You actually need very little natural light to work.

Genesis paints come in shades Flesh 02- Flesh 08. The lower the number, the darker the complexion, so for fair caucasion babies, you'll use lighter shades, like 07 & 08, and the darker the ethnic complexion that you'd like to achieve, the lower the number you'll want to use. Do know though, that even if your doing a black newborn baby, you will not want to use extremely dark paints. Black babies are much lighter complected when they are born, and get darker as they age.

For caucasion babies, the paint should be very well thinned with your odorless mineral spirits. It's important that you understand that when you first apply the paints, the look will change once they air dry, and they will change yet again, once they are permanently set with heat. The trick is finding out what the paint should look like when applied, to get the result your trying to achieve after it's been heat set. This can be very tricky.

Using a Maxine Thomas Oval Mop Brush(I suggest a 1/2" for flesh tones & a 3/8" for blushing tones)



swirl in paint mixture & apply to a cosmetic wedge. Blot over the surface. You'll want to achieve a faint change in the color of the vinyl, once it's air dry, and it will have slight pin dot imperfections throughout.

If it looks chalky at all, it is too "paint heavy". Use a clean cosmetic wedge with some straight mineral spirits to blot the surface, while using a clean dry wedge, to soak up some of the paints and mineral spirits. Repeat as many times as neccessary until you achieve the desired affect.

To see this slight color change, place one of your unpainted limbs next to the painted one & step back to look at them from a little distance. You'll see that while up close you can hardly tell a difference, the change is much more dramatic than you'd initially think, when compared to an unpainted portion.

Now it's time to heat set! You may want to use an oven thermometer to ensure that you get the oven the right temperature. Preheat to 265 F and place your painted baby parts on top of a generous bed of poly-fil on a baking pan.

Time for 8 Minutes, but I suggest you keep a close eye on them to make sure that they don't roll over and touch something other than the poly-fil, as they will melt in the shape of whatever they touched(and then, if you try and press out, it will dry with your thumb print embedded in it....trust me on this one-lol!). Also, if you run to check the mail & the timer goes off, & you forget they were there, in about 2 hours your house will fill with black smoke that smells terrible & you will find that your babies head has melted through the polyfil & half of it has turned to a black puddle at the bottom of the pan(you can take my word on that one too).

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