Collectible Artist Dolls

Resin Colors Brown Sugar - Pink Sugar - Shimmer

I have experimented with trying many resin colors over my first year in business. And I’ve settled on some favorites that my future dolls will be most likely to be available in. Brown Sugar is my deep rich resin tone which mimics polynesian skin tones, AA skin tones, mixed ethnic skin tones and a beautiful natural or spray tan. I matched this color to my son’s thumb. He is Samoan German Irish. It has a slight translucence like real skin. Pink Sugar is skin tone I matched to my own thumb. I am a rare bird in Hawaii in that I am truly fair skinned. As in I don’t even tan. I did as a child but think I must have used up all my allotment of melatonin. JK as my teen-aged sons would say. This resin tone represents very fair skin tones well. It makes for great fair princesses and fairies or modern fair skinned people like myself. it also has a slight translucence like real skin. Shimmer is a medium fair skin tone that is truly opaque. I specifically developed this color to be a beautiful fair to medium skin tone. You can blush this color lighter or darker to mimic very fair, medium or even a bit darker skin tones well. It does not have any translucence like my two other colors but rather mimics a porcelain finish adding a sense of elegance and surrealism to the finished doll rather than the more realistic effects of the other two. My background as a doll maker is in realism which is why I LOVE the first two of my resin colors I’ve settled on as favorites. But I am finding that I absolutely adore this newest addition to my beloved resin color palette precisely because of the different effects I can achieve with this one. The dolls in this resin look elegant and priceless like fine art sculpture or high quality vintage and antique dolls. Other colors I have used previously and still may from time to time are my White Sugar (a true white resin doll with the slightest translucence to help flesh out fairies, clowns and magical creations well.) My Cane Sugar resin is very similar to Island Dolls Island resin or Kim Lasher’s usual fair skin resin or DollsTown Paleskin. It is the closest to many companies Normal, though less yellow. My Maple Sugar resin is a more medium tone great for Hispanic or Italian or Mediteranean or South American fair to medium skin tones. I like it as a “beauty” skin tone but do not use it often now because my Shimmer is actually this “beauty” medium fair skin tone with a touch of rose added in to make it an even more beautiful tone in my opinion. So I tend toward using my Shimmer resin color instead. I have used a Vanilla Sugar color in the past and still have Sugar Babies in this color. It is like a milky white flesh tone, very pale but not quite true white. From time to time I will offer dolls in any or all of these colors and/or may create new ones as I find the need. Mahalo, Bo Bergemann All my doll measurements are below. They can all trade clothing easily with other dolls! See basic nude dolls below measurements.

MSD Doll Measurements: (My MSD body is a TRUE MSD sized body! So she fits clothing labeled for MSD sized BJD)
Height: 43cm 16 1/4" Wig: Size 7
Neck:6.5cm Eyes: Size 12mm & 14mm
Shoulder width: 7cm Can share clothing most MSD sized dolls especially slim MSD
Chest size: 19cm MSD shoes, Kish 14" & 16" doll shoes, Some Bluette shoes
Waist size: 13.5cm
Hip size: 19cm
Arm length: 13cm
Leg length:22cm outside, 19.5 inside
Foot length: 5.5CM
Foot width: 1.2CM
Wrist 3.5cm
upper arm 5.5cm
ankle 4.5cm
Thigh 10.5cm

YOSD Doll Measurements: Fit Chart
Height: 27cm 10 1/4" Wig: Size 6
Neck:6cm Eyes: Size 10mm oval and round, some round 12mm
Shoulder width: 6.5cm Can share clothing with Little Fee, and Goodreau and Creedy 8" and Effner 13"
Chest size: 14cm YOSD shoes, Bitty Bethany Shoes, 13" Effner shoes, Some Bluette shoes
Waist size: 12cm
Hip size: 14.5cm
Arm length: 7.5cm
Leg length:10cm
Foot length: 4CM
Foot width: 1.9CM

Tiny BJD Measurements: Fit Chart
Height: 18cm 7 1/4" Wig: Size 4-5
Neck:5cm Eyes: Oval & round 8mm, some round 10mm
Shoulder width: 5cm Can share clothes with Riley Kish if loose in the waist
Chest size: 11cm Shoes: Can share with Lati Yellow, larger Blythe and Pullup
Waist size: 10cm
Hip size: 11cm
Arm length: 5.5cm
Leg length:6.25cm
Foot length: 3CM
Foot width: 1.5CM

Sugar Baby BJD Measurements: Fit Chart
Height: 14cm 5 1/4" Wig Size: 4-5, Riley works if glued on for tiny babies with hair
Neck:5cm Eyes: Size 6 or 8mm oval and round,
Shoulder width: 3.5cm Can share clothing with 5" Berenguer babies
Chest size: 11cm Shoes: Small Blythe and Pullup & some Lati
Waist size: 11.5cm
Hip size: 12cm
Arm length: 4.5cm
Leg length:4.5cm
Foot length: 2.4CM
Foot width: 1.2CM

This is a collectible resin ball jointed doll or artist bjd website showcasing Bo Bergemann original ball jointed dolls. These are first and foremost heirloom quality original artist collectible dolls for the discerning collector. My personal aesthetic preferences in collectible dolls lean toward beauty and grace as well as playful fun in all their forms. So my resin ball jointed dolls tend to be beautiful sweet vintage style or modern fun spirited adorable babies, children and young adult dolls. BJD stands for ball jointed doll. My bjd's meet all the generally accepted bjd standards being made of resin, original sculpts by me, artist Bo Bergemann, and have 14 -17 joints, standing and holding poses well on their own. They also have removable head pates to exchange eyes and wear wigs as required to be a bjd. My ball jointed dolls can be compared to Kaye Wiggs, Fairyland bjds, Soom bjds, Iplehouse bjds, and many other quality abjd style ball jointed dolls. All my ball jointed dolls are original sculptures, molded in silicon and then cast in the finest quality bjd resin. I began with tiny bjd's and have moved into YOSD bjd's and now MSD bjd's. I noticed ball jointed dolls or bjd's online looking at and enjoying the work of Kaye Wiggs, Dollstown, Fairyland, Soom, and Iplehouse who all make and sell fabulous bjd's. Original ball jointed dolls were created in Europe centuries ago. Then brought to Asia, where they were copied and improved upon to become what modern bjd's are today. There is a long and complex history behind this type of modern ball jointed doll that I only discovered a few years ago, and many of my bjd and heirloom doll collectors are only just discovering now. However, like many of my collectors, I also love Kish, Effner, Plusczok, and Himstedt and Zaweiryuzynski dolls among others which are not bjd's. I am attracted to their beautiful faces and heirloom quality! My goal is to create both beautiful heirloom quality dolls and modern bjd's in one. When I realized this, l had been sculpting dolls for 13 years at that point in time. My excitement over the possibilities for creating realistic body language through ball and socket jointing in dolls, lead me to beginning the long and arduous 2+ year process of learning to sculpt, mold and cast my own bjd's. I love the possibilities for body language and posing inherent in the bjd body type that is not available in any other kind of collectible doll body. I moved into learning to sculpt, mold and cast a resin bjd in 2008, continued through 2009, and launched my new collectible bjd resin ball jointed doll company in Oct of 2010. It took me two and a half years to learn and incorporate all the complex demands of making a true quality abjd style collectible resin ball jointed doll. I was challenged to the point of choosing to either give up, or persevere and make this my full time job! The latter won out and I am enjoying great acceptance from my collectors who are a fast growing crowd of both heirloom collectible doll lovers and bjd artists and collectors. I do so appreciate all the support and encouragement each has offered me in this journey. And for my collectors list who has followed me and grown from my earliest days of offering hand sculpted original life sized babies, through my miniature doll making phase, and now into being a collectible ball jointed doll artist - THANK YOU! I am a doll maker and I believe strongly in doing my best in excellence in all I do. So, when looking for the best body type to make little girls - I discovered bjd's! I have had to research and learned mostly via trial and error the hard way. But I have also recently enjoyed the blessing of having asked wonderful mentors like Kaye Wiggs and Joe McPhale many questions seeking to improve my processes. And each step of the way, I am convinced again that modern bjd's provide the best possible doll body types if your goals are realistic body language, many posing possibilities and getting your dolls to stand on their own. These were my original goals and have blossomed into being my ongoing pursuits as I make the next doll, and the next! All the while, pursuing the main goal of making truly heirloom quality original collectible artist dolls for the discerning collector! Dolls with both fabulous bjd bodies AND beautiful faces & costuming, like so many other modern and antique dolls!
 

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