Monday, January 9, 2012

Step by Step: Skinny Doll with Pink Dress


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. You'll also need a Styrofoam ball for the head, a

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Happy New Year!


Wishing you a happy, healthy and creative new year!

(print out picture for kids to color!)

Friday, November 25, 2011

Create a Christmas Star with Cold Porcelain


Today we have another excellent video demo from Marisol Romero, showing us, step-by step, how to make a pudgy Christmas star using cold porcelain & a foam ball.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Make a Little CP Angel


Make a cute angel figurine following instructions found in Porcelana Fria (a Spanish language magazine) and translated here to English as best as I can! ;-)

Materials needed:
Cold Porcelain (white, flesh, pink or blue, hair color)
White glue
Styrofoam sphere for head
Clay tools
Paints & brush for face
Eye stickers (optional)
Round toothpicks for adding strength at joints

Friday, November 11, 2011

How to Make Pokemon Pichu


This video shows us how to make a Pokemon Pichu sugarpaste fondant birthday cake decoration...but cold porcelain can also be used. The sugarpaste techniques are pretty much the same as working with cold porcelain, except you don't have to use edible glue

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Make a Cyclamen Plant


Step-by-step demonstration from Lydia to create some cold porcelain Cyclamen. Slideshow instructions are shown in multiple languages, just pause the video when it comes to your language.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Cold Porcelain Petunia


Step-by-step demonstration from Lydia to create some cold porcelain Petunias.   Slideshow instructions are shown in multiple languages, just pause the video when it

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

A Couple of Cute & Stylized Cats


A cold porcelain tutorial from "Biscuit" magazine and the Brazilian site Artesanatonarede . Translated to English as best as possible.  Two stylized cats hugging a heart and each other!

This is a good beginners project.