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This course will show how different sizes of hands paws claws and hooves can be created using cloth and batting over a wire armature. Stitching, sealers and paint will give form and life to your artworks by using these simple techniques.
Create removable doll costuming with out copious amounts of sewing, using modern adhesive techniques. Learn to print unique fabrics with a home ink jet printer, then put your newly acquired skills to work creating the class project Alice dress.
This course is devoted to sculpting an Angel with a Heart, where you will create a complete doll step-by-step: making body with polystyrene and clay, working with papier-mache, painting details and priming clothes.
Nina’s demo will show the basic steps of shoemaking necessary for creating a wide variety of leather footwear.
(8) 5.0 average ratingIn a three-day class Ankie will teach you how to make a complete Prince. All lessons are on video, like all sculpting, painting, putting together and costuming, and three times a Zoom meeting to ask Ankie all needed questions. Kits available.
Learn a very easy method to make the base for a mask in Creative Paperclay. Follow the step-by-step process for four different masks and be inspired to design your own mask.
Make a special and unique hat that will set your work apart and help create a story and identity for your artwork. Files folders and bits of wool blended felt will put you on a journey of discovery.
Discover the unique techniques Shelley Thornton uses to make her own dolls’ heads. Videos will guide you, step by step, through her process, and you will be provided with a detailed illustrated instruction booklet and patterns to download and print.
(3) 5.0 average ratingDesigned to create confidence with the use of thermal set fabric Fosshape® when heated is activated and stiffens to hold its shape. Learn additional techniques to free form mushrooms, organic shaped foliage and a blue birds nest to trim the hat.
(1) 5.0 average ratingMarie Antoinette style wig is a fun project introducing students to the basics of making a historical style/fantasy wig using thermal set fabric Fosshape® a felt-like synthetic fabric that when heated is activated and stiffens to hold its form.
Learn millinery skills to create a 1920s Cloche, using thermal set fabric Fosshape® a felt-like synthetic fabric that when heated is activated and stiffens to hold its form. Use a simple kitchen tool to create floral trims to embellish your hat.
(1) 5.0 average ratingEnjoy an illustrated lecture presenting ideas to help artists find their own unique voice. Shelley shares insights discovered on her own artistic path and offers thought-provoking worksheets to help you discover who you are as a creative force.
Sculpting “Red Sonia on the Beach” Create a complete art doll and enjoy the process of making Sonia. You will have step-by-step video lessons from sculpting doll’s body to the ready Sonia lying on the beach.
How to photograph your dolls using simple studio methods utilizing natural light.
This is a class on how you can create a fantasy doll-sized chair. By using wire as an armature and sewing on batting while incorporating found objects and finishing with paint. You can make a chair with your unique personality with JoEllen Trilling.
(1) 5.0 average ratingStep by step color images and descriptions are provided in 4 PDFs. Learn to use small bits of fabric to adapt commercial items such as metal bead caps and acorn tops to develop a variety of shapes and sizes of fabric beads.
In this short tutorial Kate demonstrates her personal method of conditioning a neutral "skin" mix using PREMO clay by Sculpey giving you some basics for mixing and conditioning polymer clay.
(1) 5.0 average ratingYou already have some experience as a sculptor or a doll maker but you are struggling with the expressions of your dolls. Marlaine shows you how to make a happy face, an angry face, an arrogant face and a surprised face in air dry clay.
Ankie made a scrapbook filled with ideas that can help you in creating your dolls.
(2) 5.0 average ratingA masterful step-by-step approach to adding leather shoes to sculpted legs.
Learn to make fanciful textile hats. Discover a new and easy way to create hats for your dolls by heat setting textiles you probably already can find in your stash and never found a purpose for. Another fun course by NIADA artist Marlaine Verhelst.
In this course Ankie Daanen will teach to make eye sockets in a special way by poking eyes and also how to paint the face. In the example a heart shaped form will be used. But this also can be done using an egg shaped form.
In this course Ankie Daanen will teach you how to make a complete standing doll: The Sweetheart. You will sculpt the face, hands, legs and body. You will paint and costume.
Create your own simple, one-sided molds and cast feather-weight embellishments with Pat Lillich
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