Product Description

Learn how to make fairies in polymer clay. Geared for beginner dollmakers and polymer clay artists alike. Take a one-way ticket into the popular World of Enchantment by learning how to make one of a kind art dolls in the new fairy genre. This is a "how-to" book, the revised, updated second edition, now in color, not only teaches the entire dollmaking process but it has marketing and photography tips sprinkled throughout. Also comes with a mail in for a free starter kit, including two molds, wings and hair, with a link for video tutorials and a video doll slideshow. There's no excuse to not buy your ticket into the Wonderful World of Polymer Dollmaking!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #620584 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-15
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

Review
I enjoyed the second edition of this book and was very happy that it is now in color. I especially liked the fact that it came with a mail in for a free starter kit, including two small molds. I like the fact that it starts off assuming you are at your first class and begins with teaching how to develop your own style of dollmaking. Highly recommended. --Tara Foye, Boca Raton, FL

I liked this book and keep it on my sculpting table. It breaks down the information and techniques section by section, leaves nothing out and takes you from the planning stages to the final touches. Great scale chart and easy-to-learn assembling. I received the starter kit and it also came with a link to a slide show where I could see larger pictures of the finished dolls. Great inspiration. Got me really excited to learn. --Margaret Freitag, Bronx, NY

Just want I needed. I am just getting started and liked that the book starts off assuming nothing. Doesn't spend page after page describing equipment, history, chemical clay analysis. It just brings you right into the project. Great marketing and photography tips too. --Bill Fulton, Orlando, Florida

About the Author
Regina Edmonds is a self-taught doll sculptor, doll designer and moldmaker for over 10 years. Ms. Edmonds is the originator of the first learning-with-push-molds techniques for polymer clay dollmaking and has been launching one of a kind dollmakers into the industry for almost 10 years now.

Customer Reviews

a new method
I was not impressed. The methods used in this book are way more difficult. Sculpting and then cutting it open to put the armature in seems a little silly to me. It is not a book to use for beginners and a practiced sculpter would find it very primative. There are a lot better books out there.

Great Book!
This is a great book. The directions are clear and the pictures show step by step how to sculpt a fairy in polymer clay. My faces are coming out so much better! A must have for the beginning polymer clay sculpter.

Sorry I Bought This
After reading the positive reviews on this book, I was excited to finally purchase it. Boy was I dissapointed.

For starters, the book is incredibly skimpy considering the price. Next, the photos are terrible, small, blurry, and out of whack in the color department. Even the photo of the author is a blur! When I buy craft books, I feel that clear photos of the steps and techniques are key. This book fails in that area big time!

As someone who's done a lot of sculpting in polymer clay, I was frustrated at the instuctions, especially the face construction. Even the photos of the finished faces are unattractive.

The most dissapointing was that the book offered no instuctions, or even inspiration for variations on the fairies. The cover shows smaller "baby" fairies, and other styles of fairies, but the book never shows you how to achieve these different styles. It doesn't even have a photos gallery of the variations you could create.

Overall, I'm thinking this may be the very first book I return to Amazon in all the years I've been ordering books. If you actually want great photos and technique you can truly learn from, check out "Fairies, Gnomes & Trolls" by Maureen Carlson.