Tea Rose on August 17th, 2010

There is a lot of information available on making human-sized wings for fairy or angel costumes. Some of these techniques won’t apply to dolls, but they might inspire you to try something you hadn’t thought of before, so here are some pages with wing instructions:

Instructables.com is a great resource with lots of costume and [...]

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Tea Rose on June 28th, 2010

Spend some time reading these tutes, and you’ll learn a lot. These guys are professionals.
Sculptor’s Corner.

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Tea Rose on January 19th, 2010

If you’re new to polymer clay and would like a good overview of the medium and its commonest techniques, check out this Squidoo lens by artist Noadi. If you’re an old hand at polymer clay, but you have an annoying friend who thinks you want to teach her all about it, send her to the [...]

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Tea Rose on August 27th, 2009

Dolls and puppets aren’t that different, right? So for your continuing education, today I present a link with a bunch of pages about building stop-motion animation puppets. You might find a new kind of armature you’ve never thought of before, and there are several links to discussions of materials that are rarely used for dolls, [...]

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Tea Rose on October 28th, 2008

Deb Wood is one of the most talented eBay fairy artists around. Her work has personality as well as realism and elegance. She’s also generous enough to have made some very good tutorials about aspects of her process that few people share in tutorials, like how to pack a fairy for shipping, how to test [...]

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