THE PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS YEAR 2011 - IN PICTURES -REBON DOLL

The Press Photographer's Year 2011 - in pictures

Photograph of the Year and First Prize: Features - Charles McQuillan, Pacemaker Glenda Ewart's Yellow Cottage Nursery creates facsimiles of infants to order for customers around the world wishing to have a permanent memento of their child's early years. The dolls are known as 'reborns'. Sara, the daughter of a customer, with her recently completed likeness, photographed near her home in Downhill, Northern Ireland. May 20th 2010

REBORN PROTOTYPES TO DO MY SON DANIEL AS

i always look for a reborn doll i can do of my son.
why? because i miss his baby-ness. he was the BEST baby.
and a complete joy to me to have had.
and...sadly time has run by so quickly, hes almost grown. hes 17 this month.
so, i scour the reborn sites looking for that one prototype that resembles him from the 1st picture that was taken of him.
this is a pic of my son.

so the idea is to find a protoype head that matches this face as much as possible.

the images i provide will be reborn dolls, buy other artists, i dont look at the image itself so much as the shape, and similarities that my son had and are present in any prototype

so the images may represent a female doll, but its the stylizing, or coloring, or look that draws me to it alng with the finer details of my son in that face somewhere.

AUBREY

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MOBY PROTYPE

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EDEN PROTOTYPE

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PROTOTYPE PAIGE

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TANNER

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PAISLEY PROTOTYPE

PAISLEY BLANK (comes WITHOUT the eyes)

so those are the canvases i have to choose from to do an original DANIEL ALAN and use it as part of my portfolio for this, as well as a display to show off my talent , when i get good enough to actually have people inquire about possible CUSTOM made dolls.

MICHELLE

IT HAS COME FULL CIRCLE-KOKO (The Gorilla) 'MOTHERS' HER REBORN APE DOLL

Jul 20, 2011

Koko Continues to "Mother" her Ape Baby Doll

 

Koko doesn't usually bond this closely to her "dolls" but she's been spending a lot of time with this ultra-realistic one lately, giving it a lot of love and carrying it in much the same way as most gorilla mom's carry their newborns. This wil be good practice, should we succeed in helping her adopt — a wish she expresses often in sign language.
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i mentioned in one of my 1st blogs on here, that i had painted a chimpanzee.

theres a long story to that painting, but it all started when my mother handed me a book about KOKO and her kitten.
that one book, changed me. set me for life, with an inner love for primates.
so much so, when i had the chance to paint my 1st, and currently only, painting, i wanted it to be a primate.

so much time has passed, i dont know if i even posses that raw talent i held as a new 18 year old, anymore.
so, my love for both painting and  primates exteneded itself to a 3-D canvas, on reborn dolls.

i love them, but i especially LOVE the monkey ones best. and have even considered just doing them excelusivly.

and today as a feed on my Facebook, i see an image of KOKO, the very being that started my love for Primates, holding a custom made REBORN  'ape' herself.

small world.

MICHELLE

NEWS - 'HARRY POTTER' REBORN DOLLS - 'HARRY POTTER' FEVER JUST WENT TO FAR

Harry Potter ‘Reborn Baby Dolls’: Harry Potter Fever Just Went Too Far

By Carmel Lobello Tuesday, July 19, 2011

After reading about the art of “reborning,” I want to cry, get my tubes tied, and volunteer to help women who are experiencing any of the various kinds of psychological pain associated with motherhood. If you’ve never heard of the hobby, reborners are artisan doll-makers who make intensely realistic newborn babies out of vinyl and sell them to a variety of people, some of whom have recently lost a child.

Nothing about the life-size vinyl creatures, with their bulging eyes, wet hair (presumably from placenta?) and scabbed-over belly-buttons say “play with me,” which is why it seems odd—possibly even disturbing— that one talented reborn artist decided to create a series of babies based on the “Harry Potter” characters.
The incredible craftsmanship serves to make them even more alarming. Hermione and Malfoy look like fairly normal babies, which is creepy and stuff, while Snape looks like a grumpy onyx-haired newborn with a misshapen head, probably from difficult childbirth.

The Harry Potter baby wears a fresh scar that looks disturbingly painful on such a real-looking model, and as io9 pointed out, baby Voldemort is utterly horrifying.

But what’s even creepier than the dolls themselves is that they play almost perfectly into the depressing culture surrounding reborns.

Most reborn customers are older women, some who are regular doll collectors. Others, though, are purchasing the pricey dolls in response to “empty-nest” syndrome, or because they are unable to get pregnant and can’t afford adoption. Still others buy them after suffering miscarriages or losing a child of their own.

The creators play into this tragic trend, and many of the dolls are purchased through a faux adoption process which includes fake birth-certificates and paperwork. Owners often form attachments to their dolls, changing their clothes, washing their hair and cuddling them.

Some psychiatrists believe the little dolls can give women peace and comfort later in life, while others advise against it.

While it’s comforting that the dolls provide peace for some women, the whole thing is dark—darker than The Dark Year or the Dark Arts, because it’s totally real.

But while it may sound sick, making a reborn out of Harry Potter, to whom thousands formed a deep attachment over the last decade and a half, in a way makes perfect, twisted sense.

I’ve read every book, some of them multiple times, and seen all the movies except the most recent, which I want to hold off on for as long as possible. When Dumbledore died I cried massive toddler tears, and I sobbed through the last 50 pages of the final book, experiencing a unique combination of despair and joy, mourning death and youth, while also rejoicing Harry’s courage and growth.

But while I’d love to start over and read the first book with fresh eyes again, I know I can never make Harry Potter new again. Especially not with a creepy-looking doll.

 

PREEMIE RYAN KIT- BY PRECIOUS DOLLS NURSERY

this is what drew me into the online album of this particular artist. i was looking on eay just for reborn dolls, and found RYAN a PREEMIE kit (by Natalie Scholls), that had been done, to near real detail.

hes amazing.

look at those feet!

MICHELLE

SECRIST - 6" TRIPLET SET 'CUDDLY BABY ANIMALS'

6" Triplet Set: Cuddly Baby Animals

Reg. Price:

$75.00

Sale Price:

$59.99

Save:

$15.01

Only $19.99 each when you buy the set.  Includes limbs, body slip AND adorable terry cloth animal pajamas!

Details:

This set of three includes 6" Bebe Bunny, 6" Petite Puppy and 6" Tiny Teddy. Each mini comes with FREE limbs, body slip and adorable fuzzy rompers! Hair sold separately.
You can paint these adorable doll kits using Authentic Reborn Heat-Set paints and assemble your new babies following the instructions below or included in the Course #1 Reborning Training DVD, which also teaches you how to paint your first reborn baby!
Also available individually:

• 6" Bebe Bunny
• 6" Petite Puppy
• 6" Tiny Teddy 

6" Doll Assembly
Click here for a PDF on assembly for the 6" mini.

ANNIE - SECRIST HEAD

An assembled Annie is about 19" long. Head & Limb Special!

Details:

Head & Limbs.

Reg. Price:	$49.99
Sale Price:	$44.99
Save:	$5.00

For a limited time Annie comes with 3/4 limbs. (Body slips sold separately.) Annie comes in Secrist's own special baby-soft vinyl that is translucent just like a real baby's skin.  Secrist's vinyl was designed specifically for reborners and is preferred by reborners world wide.

This head can be used with 19" body slips. Eyes come
pre-inserted when ordered with the doll.

Make it a complete kit by checking the options below!

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Included Limb Set 

Annie comes with her own special 3/4 limb set. Be sure to get the body slip you need for the limb set you order! Reborners who prefer to display their doll prefer 3/4 limbs to allow for a greater variety of garments the doll can be dressed and displayed with.

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Body Slip Options


Most Secrist body slips come with cable ties already inserted, with the exception of the 12" Micropreemie Cotton Body Slip which comes with strings. These body slips have an ideal shape for a baby. The kind of body slip you use will strongly impact the feel of your baby nestled in your arms. Want huggably soft? Choose a Doe Suede slip for it's super soft texture or simply to add an extra touch of premium to your reborn baby. You put a lot of effort into reborning your babies and you know you and your reborn are worth it! Upgrade to Doe Suede.
Below are the body slips that are available
for Annie:

• Cotton Body Slip: 3/4  
• Cotton Body Slip: 1/4
• Doe Suede-like Body Slip: 3/4