Saturday, April 27, 2013

How to Make a Double Rose


In the following video, the well-known cold porcelain artist from Argentina, Jorge Rubicce, shows us another technique for creating realistic roses using cold porcelain. We've previously featured a few of Jorge's videos where he shows us how to make roses, but, this time, he shows us how to create a double petal rose, sometimes called a wild rose.

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Little Farmer step by step

small farmer in cold porelana

This  cold porcelain tutorial written by Fernanda Malzoni shows us how to create this cute "little farmer" figure step by step, with progress photos showing each step.  This tutorial is in Spanish, use Google Translate to translate page if needed (or other online translator).

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Roses in Cold Porcelain by Tryny



Here's is another tutorial for making cold porcelain roses.  This time Tryny Designs shows us her rose technique, step by step with lots of photos.   With this method, the variegated shading of the petals is done after the flower has cured.

This tutorial is in Spanish, use Google Translate to translate page if needed (or other online translator).

Monday, April 8, 2013

Variegated Rose Technique by Rubicce


In the following video, the well-known cold porcelain artist from Argentina, Jorge Rubicce, shows us a very new technique for creating realistic roses using cold porcelain. We've previously featured a few of Jorge's videos where he shows us how to make cold porcelain roses, but, this time, he shows us how to create petals with gently variegated colors.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

How to Create the Texture of Wool


Jorge Rubicce imitates wool texture in this cold porcelain video demonstration. He also shows how to create the effect of hair peeking out from under the wool cap. Notice that the head he is working with is fully cured and he uses white glue to attach the additional cold porcelain for the cap.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Sleepy Puppy


Make this cute sleepy puppy with homemade cold porcelain. Materials needed include:

Cold Porcelain (about 1 lb...500 gr)
Polystyrene or Styrofoam spheres No 4 and No 5  (1 for body and 1 for head)
Acrylic or oil paint to pre-tint white clay: Raw Sienna and Burnt Sienna
Sculpting tool & clay roller
Vinyl or water-based glue
Eye stickers (or paint the eyes)
Blushing powder  (pastels, scrapbooking powder or make-up)
Black permanent marker for "freckles"
Optional wood base
Acrylic paints for the wood base:  yellow and white
Acrylic paint to tint clay for "quilt buttons":  blue

Monday, August 13, 2012

How to Decoupage on Cold Porcelain


Jorge Rubicce demonstrates how to decoupage on cold porcelain.  This technique was used to create the flower-patterned shirt for the scarecrow shown above (and in video).   Video is from South American television show 'Bienvenidas'.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Make a Skinny Doll Ballerina



Create this cute ballerina skinny doll from cold porcelain following these instructions from Giselle of  Gisarteira Atelier.  Customize the doll to your own preference!  

Step by step instructions (in English) follow the video (which is written in Portuguese).