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Course Information

Description: This course is designed to offer various cloth techniques using wire armatures for creating flexible hands, paws, claws and hooves.
Media Category: Mixed Media
Course Type: Interactive (refer to the FAQ page for full descriptions of each course type)

Course Format: Technique
Course Begins: September 1, 2022 - Ongoing
Course Duration: 3 weeks or more

What will Students learn? By taking this course students will be able to refine their existing techniques and add choices of how to add new ways to incorporate cloth and wire into their work.
Instructor/Students interaction: Answer questions via emails, “Live” Instruction (eg: Facebook Live, Zoom), Private Facebook Group/Community Room
Class Size: No Limit
Skill Level: inspired beginner age 16 and up
Required skill(s): Students will need to have basic sewing skills and be able to cut and bend not too heavy wire.

Supplies and tools: PDF link JETrilling-PawsClaws-tools you will use.pdf
Downloads: Videos, PDF

Course Curriculum

    1. welcome 1

    2. WELCOME

    3. B) tools you will use

    4. 1 page hand :tools:wiring

    5. 2 page hpch hand: :wire :armature

    6. 3 page hpch hand :wire:armature

    7. both human and wolf panty hose covering over batting

    8. HANDS covering batting with panty hose

    1. 1 finger bump

    2. 2 stitched finger bumps

    3. 3 finger bumps

    4. palm up 4 fingers

    5. thumb pinning

    6. stitched batting 5 fingers

    1. Sewing up a human finger

    2. Getting a hand sewn up

    3. painting hand 1st undercoat

    4. second hand paint coat

    5. fingernail

    6. close up of fingernail

    7. sobo gluing fingernails

    1. lesson1: wolf paw wire:

    2. lesson 2. shaping paw with batting

    3. 3.panty hose over batting

    4. 4.sewing up a finger/claw

    5. kittypaw begin armature

    6. catpaw finger armature

    7. catpaw wire armature

    8. kittypaw

    9. kitty paw top

    10. kitpawbottom

    11. catpaw comparison

    12. dogpaw armature

    13. dogpaw batting &pads

    14. under dog paw

    15. dogpaw :hair draw

    1. squeezing soboed claw

    2. batting on bird leg

    3. close up bird bat leg

    4. red thread sewing bird leg

    5. first spiral

    6. second spiral

    7. before glue

    8. underpaint

    9. second coat

    10. bird leg scales

    11. thread wrapping a bird claw

    12. chicken claw finished look

    13. close up bird bat leg

    1. Pig hoof definition

    2. strengthening wire and pig hoof armature

    3. matching hoof size

    4. shaping with batting

    5. adding a little more batting

    6. wire definition

    7. HORSE wire1 hoof

    8. first horse hoof wire shape

    9. adding wire cage to form horse hoof

    10. horse hoof grid cage

    11. horsebatting

    12. pinned horse hoof

    13. sewn horse hoof

    14. horse hoof 1st paint

    15. horse hoof ink

About this course

  • $100.00
  • 65 lessons
  • 2 hours of video content

Instructor

Jo-Ellen Trilling

Fabric - Mixed Media

Jo-Ellen Trilling created her own toys. Playing as a child, she sewed cloth scraps together, using bits of wire, glue, and paint to make an idea come alive. Her doll making technique is essentially the same. “A finished figure can be built in a series of illustrated steps,“ she says. Jo-Ellen has taught techniques in doll clubs across North America and Australia. Images of her figures have been published as illustrations and as editorial artwork in books and magazines. Jo-Ellen's artwork is in the permanent collections of museums around the world.

VISIT: Jo-Ellen Trilling Portfolio

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