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OCT
15
Modeling a Doll with Paperclay, Part 1 Head
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OCT
15
This step-by-step tutorial from Russian artist Dyachenko Oksana shows in great detail, with lots of photos, how to model a dolls head using Creative Paperclay. Author also shows how she paints the face. Additional tutorials will be posted soon for creating the body! . Part 2 of 4. Armature & BodyPart 3 of 4, Finishing BodyPart 4 of 4. Dressing & Posing
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SEP
15
Lalaloopsy tutorial
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SEP
15
Lalaloopsy by Starry Delight, step by step photos to create clay figure shown above. Click on 1st photo (or click 'open photo viewer') to go thru the slideshow for added instruction. She uses cookie cutters for cutting some of the shapes, barbeque sticks for the legs, and a flower cup to create a perfectly round head. Optionally, with air dry clay, you could use a
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AUG
13
Make a Clay Ranunculus
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AUG
13
Step by step tutorial from Nurainie Tan for creating a Ranunculus flower. She is using gumpaste to create her flower but techniques are the same for air dry clay. You'll need teardrop petal cutters in various sizes. You can make your own cutters (search this blog for tutorials) or purchase a set. They are available in a variety of prices from inexpensive to
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AUG
04
How to Make a Clay Butterfly
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AUG
04
This tutorial creates lacey butterflies using cookie cutters for shape and other implements to cut lacey holes. This is actually a gumpaste tutorial from cake artist Nurainie Tan, but the steps would be exactly the same for creating these sweet butterflies from Creative Paperclay, cold porcelain or any other air dry clay that is easy to roll into a flat sheet. You can skip the
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JUN
25
How to Create a Clay Unicorn
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JUN
25
This is a step by step tutorial by IndigoOcean to create a realistic unicorn (or a horse if you prefer). Tutorial is in PDF format and includes lots of photos. The artist takes you all the way from concept drawing, to creating an armature, sculpting the horse/unicorn, creating a mold and casting the sculpture. You can skip the mold creation/casting process if you prefer,
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JUN
10
Make This Cute Bee in a Clay Pot
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JUN
10
Eliana Braga has created a step by step photo tutorial showing you how to create this cute bee sitting in a clay pot with a few easy-to-make flowers. This was created with cold porcelain but almost any air-dry clay would be suitable. The softer brands of air-dry clay may be the best for this. Eliana also shows detail steps for painting the eyes and creating the sweet facial expression.&
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APR
27
Create a Dalmatian Puppy with Air Dry Clay
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APR
27
Simple, basic shapes are used to create this cute puppy with photos every step of the way to show you how. Instead of a Dalmatian, you could use this pattern to make another kind of dog simply by changing the colors used. Tutorial was translated to English from Spanish-language Porcelana Fria magazine and was written especially for cold porcelain paste,
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FEB
02
Mario & Luigi, Step by Step
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FEB
02
Create the video game character Mario in just a few easy steps! Luigi would be done same way, just taller & slimmer! ;-) Update 2/16/2013: This tutorial was initially found on a site other than the original (and some parts were missing). With some research, the original tutorial was located which includes additional instructions for modeling the head.
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JAN
07
Fairy Art Doll Tutorial
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JAN
07
K.Michelle from K.Michelle Creations shares a clever tutorial for making this easy fairy art doll using papier mache & paperclay. Other materials used include a Styrofoam ball and a foam cone plus wood dowels, a wood base, wire, paint, embellishments of your choice and typical tools such as glue and wire cutters.
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DEC
06
Cute Santa and Reindeer
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DEC
06
Visit this Korean website for a step by step photo tutorial to create the Santa and reindeer shown above. The photos are self-explanatory so there's probably no need to translate text. Text shown under each photo is part of the image, so computerized translation won't work!
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NOV
08
Bullseye from Toy Story
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NOV
08
Step by step photo tutorial to create the horse toy "Bullseye" from the movie Toy Story. Materials needed are cold porcelain or other air-dry clay in white, sienna brown, saddle brown and black, Styrofoam balls in a few sizes, plus some wire, dowels, wood skewers or toothpicks to reinforce legs.
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OCT
21
5 Steps to Painting a Cute Face
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OCT
21
Fabi Simonetti, an acrylic artist from Brazil, demonstrates her technique for painting eyes and a cute face in 5 easy steps. Start with cured/dried clay that was painted fleshtone or was pre-tinted. Sketch the eye shape. Fabi, who is also a tole painter, uses markers or gel pens to color in the eyes. A fine line marker is used in last step to add lashes and
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SEP
28
How to Sculpt a Realistic Baby with Paperclay
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SEP
28
Today I'd like to share a very interesting Paperclay tutorial. Ellen Harris has created this very realistic baby completely from Creative Paperclay. How I make dolls with Creative Paperclay Using some traditional methods she has created a doll with moveable joints using ...."my fingers, toothpicks, a wookie, a small set of brushes, two teeny round iron rasps, small ball stylus and
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SEP
19
How to Make Perfect Ball Joints for BJD
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SEP
19
I found this tutorial on a Russian website for making a perfectly round ball using LaDoll clay. The artist will use the balls for the joints in her BJD dolls, but I bet there's other uses for a perfectly round clay ball! This technique may also work for other brands of air-dry clay (such as Creative Paperclay). You'll have to experiment. Google doesn't do a great job
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SEP
06
Apple Earrings, Charms and Magnets
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SEP
06
Gosh! It's September already! In our town that means back to school for the kids. Here's some gift ideas for a teacher. An apple for the teacher in the form of clay charms, earrings, pendants or magnets. This tutorial from Roudi shows how to make a tiny apple charm from air-dry clay (shown above) and also includes how-to tips for tinting clay and a
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AUG
23
Pastel Birds Table Decor
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AUG
23
Yesterday we featured a Whimsical Hen tutorial using FimoAir Basic in Terra Cotta. This air-dry clay is also available as FimoAir Light and a few other formulas (see our ADC Brands page). The FimoAir Basic is a heavy clay similar to DAS and the FimoAir Light, I'm told, is lighter and softer, similar to Hearty Clay. Today we're sharing a PDF tutorial from Fimo which
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AUG
11
How to Create This Art Doll including How to Sculpt Head and Build Body
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AUG
11
Paperclay doll by Oksana Dyachenko Excellent, detailed tutorial for creating a mixed media art doll by Oksana Dyachenko. Some interesting and unique techniques shown that I've never seen before. Creative Paperclay is used to sculpt head, hands and feet with abundant step-by-step instructions for modeling face and hands along with painting details. This is a
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JUL
18
Lots More Eyes to Paint
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JUL
18
Source of this photo unknown The other day we posted the steps to create 35 different eyes and expressions. Here's a bunch more ideas for painting eyes on your clay sculpts. For the first 14, start with basic shape in left column, add details from center column and highlights/accents from right column. Another 40+ eye ideas!
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JUL
16
Painting Eyes Step by Step
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JUL
16
Bunny (by Mary) with painted eyes Quite often, when sculpting clay figures, we decide to paint the eyes rather than using embedded eyes. The following eye patterns show the steps to create dozens of different eyes and expressions. Start with basic shape in left column, add details from center column and highlights/accents from right column.
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JUL
05
Paper Mache Buffalo
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JUL
05
Brian Bemisdarfer sculpts instant papier mache into his unique "Thathanka — Giver of Plenty" buffalo. Pretty nice sculpt, don't you think? Here's the step by step instructions for creating the buffalo. The modeling material he is using is a dry powder that is mixed with water for an instant papier mache pulp. Either Celluclay or Sculptamold or something similar. &
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JUL
04
Sculpting a Heron
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JUL
04
Believe it or not, this beautiful Heron was sculpted from a gourd. Actually it's made from several gourds that were carved, assembled and detailed with air-dry clay by Phyllis Sickles. Phyllis shares her clay+gourd process in this series of step-by-step photos for "Sculpting the Heron".
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JAN
10
Step by Step: Skinny Doll with Pink Dress
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JAN
10
Art instructor Evelyn Fonseca shows us how to dress a "skinny doll", step by step. Evelyn is from Brazil and narration is in Portuguese. If you don't understand the language, just mute the video and follow along as she demonstrates each step. The "Fox" clay used in demo is a commercial cold porcelain. If commercial cold porcelain is not available in your area, you can make some
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DEC
20
Another easy owl!
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DEC
20
About 6 months ago we featured a super simple semi-abstract owl. Today we have another easy owl from same author. This owl would make a great pendant, focal bead or charm. Tutorial suggests using Model Magic clay but many other brands of clay would work as well, including Cloud Clay & Creative Paperclay. Plain white is shown for this owl but Model Magic comes in many
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NOV
11
Make these cute elves for Christmas or anytime
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NOV
11
Make one elf or 100 elves as Christmas favors! This clay tutorial for creating these expressive elves has been translated to English based on step-by-step instructions written by Sandra Gomez and originally posted as 'Duendes Magicos' at Manualidades y Artesanias | utilisima.com (Update...that URL has been hijacked...don't click.) Materials used include: Cold porcelain Acrylic paint,
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