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Courses
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$75.00Fantasy Chair Building with JoEllen Trilling
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.
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$35.00Fabric Bead Embellishments
Step 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.
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FreeFREE: Mixing Polymer Clay
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.
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$65.00Making Faces, facial expressions
You 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.
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FreeFREE: Ankie's Scrapbook For Ideas
Ankie made a scrapbook filled with ideas that can help you in creating your dolls.
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$75.00LEGACY COURSE: Robert McKinley Making a Beautiful Pair of Shoes
A masterful step-by-step approach to adding leather shoes to sculpted legs.
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$25.00Put on your Hat
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.
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$24.00How to sculpt a heartshape face poking eyes
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.
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$45.00How to make a complete doll: The Sweetheart
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.
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$10.00Molding and Casting Paper Embellishments
Create your own simple, one-sided molds and cast feather-weight embellishments with Pat Lillich
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$45.00Sculpting a Paper Clay Head on a Styrene Egg
Step-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 ...
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$20.00Sculpting bare feet with air-dry clay
In 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.
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$65.00How to make The Girl from Paris
In this course Ankie Daanen will guide you in making a charming complete doll: The Girl from Paris. Sculpting, painting, and costuming instructions included.
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$30.00LEGACY COURSE: Akira Blount - Creating Cloth Doll Heads and Hands
Internationally renowned doll artist Akira Blount shares her unique philosophies, techniques and skills in creating cloth heads and hands for art dolls.
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$150.00LEGACY COURSE: Robert McKinley's Dollmaking Workshop
A comprehensive teaching tool on Bob McKinley's step-by-step approach to creating a doll using paperclay.
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FreeFREE DEMO Making Hollyhock Dolls
with Shelley Thornton. For kids of ALL ages
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FreeFREE TUTORIAL How to work with air-dry clay
This free PDF tutorial shows you tips, tricks and techniques to help you sculpting with air-dry clay
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$20.00How to Make High Heels
Ankie 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.
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$30.00Polymer Clay Tutorial : Making Shoes
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.
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$30.00Playing with Synthetic Organza
Synthetic 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!
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$49.00More Playing with Synthetics
Lots of inspiring patterns, techniques and ideas to work with unexpected materials
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$22.00Painting Faces
This is a short course in which I show how and with what I paint my doll faces. I show this in five different examples.
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$5.00EXPRESSIVE HANDS with Polymer Clay
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.
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$150.00PaperClay-Bird-Wren
with Connie Smith, ongoing, with a NEW ZOOM ITINERARY BEGINNING JUNE 1, 2022! Make your own jointed Bird Doll updated Painting demos! Full access to Private Facebook Group; participants from original Zoom sessions welcome to join in again!
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