haha, all of them

I’m thinking a lot of Fresh Dolls lately, because of the shipping chaos those poor people have had, so I’m interested in painting another of those. My Indigo is one favorite repaint because I gave her spooky black sclera and I am just really into it. I have two more in my house that could be victims, though I might be interested in taking a less immediately inhuman approach. I also have their male dolls coming and I don’t think I’ve ever made an actual male doll? Johnny is a nonbinary disaster child with charcoal all over his eyes, so he’s like a separate category, haha

I’ve recently been experimenting (slowly, god, so slowly, seasonal affective slowly) with different ways to approach the paint without bothering with sealant and pastel and sometimes it is a great turn out, and other times… iffy. I’d like to spend time getting it just right.

Also god I am so interested in the ways painting can shape a face sculpt. I’ve got a few on my table right now who I started because I didn’t like the sculpt at all. One was a Mattel Elsa I got in a bag of things I actually wanted at a thrift store, and even with just preliminary paint on her, the sculpt looks so much less like the result of an alien probe of a frog. I also did a Barbie sculpt recently that I thought was generic and No and then when I painted it, I loved her and thought she was so cute. I want to try this with the ubiquitous and vapid superstar face very much. God, maybe even the generation girl face that I always thought made her look too old.

Would love to get a beat up Steffie face to paint - I love the face, like so many others do. All mine are ones I want to keep like they are, but because I love it I really want to try painting it. I’m interested in making a really drippy scary punky Steffie as much as I am a typically ‘pretty’ one. Want to paint a Mackie head for similar reasons, haha.

I want to try yarn reroot and about 600 more TNT faces and sculpting more things. The 70s dolls I still have from a friend’s basement clean out - Dusty, the bionic woman, the world of love face maybe? I want to try converting the flynn ryder doll into Edgar, I want to do the one I have set out to be Tenna, I want to find Jimmy and Devi

I want to make tiny eyes with tiny brushes.

…i just really like dolls and painting.