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Fabric Bead Embellishments
CourseStep 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.
$35
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FREE: Mixing Polymer Clay
Course5.0 average rating (1 review)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.
Free
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Making Faces, facial expressions
CourseYou 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.
$65
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FREE: Ankie's Scrapbook For Ideas
Course5.0 average rating (2 reviews)Ankie made a scrapbook filled with ideas that can help you in creating your dolls.
Free
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LEGACY: Robert McKinley Making a Beautiful Pair of Shoes
CourseA masterful step-by-step approach to adding leather shoes to sculpted legs.
$75
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Put on your Hat
CourseLearn 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.
$25
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How to sculpt a heartshape face poking eyes
CourseIn 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.
$24
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How to make a complete doll: The Sweetheart
CourseIn 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.
$45
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Molding and Casting Paper Embellishments
Course5.0 average rating (1 review)Create your own simple, one-sided molds and cast feather-weight embellishments with Pat Lillich
$10
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Sculpting a Paper Clay Head on a Styrene Egg
CourseStep-by-step instructions, photos, text & voice over. Materials list, demos of carving the polystyrene egg , covering it with clay, inserting eyes, building features with anatomy guidance & adding a chest plate. Finally, finishing off and painting.
$45
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Sculpting bare feet with air-dry clay
CourseIn this video course you will learn how to sculpt bare feet step-by-step. The course is about sculpting in air-dry clay and shows you lots of tips and tricks to make your dolls' feet more realistic. The course is ongoing and open for everyone.
$20
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How to make The Girl from Paris
CourseIn this course Ankie Daanen will guide you in making a charming complete doll: The Girl from Paris. Sculpting, painting, and costuming instructions included.
$65
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LEGACY: Akira Blount - Creating Cloth Doll Heads and Hands
Course5.0 average rating (1 review)Internationally renowned doll artist Akira Blount shares her unique philosophies, techniques and skills in creating cloth heads and hands for art dolls.
$30
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LEGACY: Robert McKinley's Dollmaking Workshop
CourseA comprehensive teaching tool on Bob McKinley's step-by-step approach to creating a doll using paperclay.
$150
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FREE DEMO Making Hollyhock Dolls
Coursewith Shelley Thornton. For kids of ALL ages
Free
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How to Make High Heels
CourseAnkie will show you how to make high heel shoes by means of videos and PDFs. You can make many different models based on a basic process.
$20
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Polymer Clay Tutorial : Making Shoes
Course5.0 average rating (4 reviews)A seven-part tutorial demonstrating methods and ideas for making slipper shoes and boots for small figures using polymer clay. Students can follow the lessons at their own pace and will be able to download the videos for their own reference library.
$30
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Playing with Synthetic Organza
CourseSynthetic organza makes me happy. Because of the beautiful colors, the transparency and the endless possibilities to play with it. In this class you will learn how to melt and combine synthetic organza into flowers and leaves. Have fun!
$30
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More Playing with Synthetics
CourseLots of inspiring patterns, techniques and ideas to work with unexpected materials
$49
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Painting Faces
CourseThis is a short course in which I show how and with what I paint my doll faces. I show this in five different examples.
$22
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EXPRESSIVE HANDS with Polymer Clay
Course4.9 average rating (7 reviews)A two chapter video tutorial demonstrating Kate's personal method for making hands using polymer clay. Many tips and techniques are covered in this 20 minute demo.
$5
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PaperClay-Bird-Wren
Course4.8 average rating (6 reviews)with Connie Smith, ongoing, with a NEW ZOOM ITINERARY BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 2024! Make your own jointed Bird Doll updated Painting demos! Full access to Private Facebook Group; participants from original Zoom sessions welcome to join new Zooms!
$150
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Costuming with Ankie Daanen
CourseIn this course you can see how Ankie dresses up two dolls in her unique way, how she uses unusual embellishments in her costuming, how to make hats for your doll and also sewing instructions and in addition hundreds of costuming ideas.
$100
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Make An Artie Bean
Course5.0 average rating (2 reviews)Make a complete character beginning with Building the Armature - Sculpting in Paperclay - Sewing the Costume - Painting & Applying the Hair - Assembling the Bean.
$75