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LI-QUA-CHÉ "A Doll Makers' Dream Come True" By: Colleen Allen Check out Collen's Web site here |
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For those of you who want to make quality dolls, I’ve found the most exciting product to come along in ages. It’s a medium that lets those who don’t have a kiln use the same doll molds we use for porcelain to pour a good-looking high quality doll. The medium doesn’t damage your molds for porcelain pouring and the dolls won ’t require firing, not even cooking in an oven. It is completely air-drying and ready to finish the day after pouring. Activa’s LI-QUA-CHÉ will open up the wide world of doll making to a whole new group of people.LI-QUA-CHÉ is a pourable paper mache’ with an extremely fine body. The finish feels just as smooth and silky as sanded porcelain. You’d never recognize it as a paper compound. It has the high quality look of a cross between porcelain and resin with a far more realistic, velvety, skin-like luster. It pours and dries a nice, light cream color or for darker skin you may color it with additional pigment. | LI-QUA-CHÉ has the added
advantage of being very strong. It’s strength coupled with it’s ability to look
every bit as fine and fragile as porcelain makes it an excellent medium for creating
family heirlooms and museum quality items. I poured a 10" circumference head and dropped it from a height of four feet onto my kitchen floor. It didn’t break! I then threw it higher each time and still, it did not break. After the 15th time, I smashed it down as hard as I could and the head finally broke. It didn’t explode into a million fragments (which porcelain will do) but broke into three pieces. I could easily have repaired it using the wet LI-QUA-CHÉ, another bonus as rarely does porcelain "forgive" enough to allow quality repair. The surface may be painted with a variety of finishes, but my favorites are, Fiestas, oil-based translucent paints by AdHoc Ceramics. These are intense, yet soft and realistic looking, like the natural blush of skin and well-done makeup. Go to Next Page |
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