The brightest holiday of the year, Christmas, is about to knock on our doors, and we prepare its meeting with excitement and expectation of a miracle. In order to fulfil our expectations we need to create a symbol of Christmas: traditional decorations in the form of a star, as well as a Christmas creche with a manger, decoration and figures. There is a beautiful old tradition to put a creche in the house at Christmas. This model ...

Victoria Ellis's authorial response to the popular decorative style of the early 20th century presents us with bas-reliefs and sculptures made with great piety in relation to the original objects. The artist employs a special technique of "carving" in clay, similar to making openwork cut-outs from paper. Art Deco, sometimes called Deco, is a style of fine art, architecture and design that first appeared ...

In the run-up to the New Year, here's a Christmas star workshop that will help you get the hang of making a star out of newspaper. Not only can you weave stars out of newspapers, but old school notebooks and magazine pages are also suitable. It's easy to create your own star - even for a child, this workshop can be child's play. The star can also be placed on a ...

Many beautiful models, moulds, drawings and sketches have come out of Deanna Effner's hands. In the early 70's, when she first made her name as a doll maker. In 1999, she founded the famous "Doll Dreamers Guild", a full-fledged workshop aimed at training and educating professionals who can make their own dolls and, most ...

Every author has his own secrets and tricks, but every business has its own rules. Eyes are wide-set, nose is "button", ears are planted low, the front part is small and the forehead is big - these are the rules, according to which the baby's head is built when modelling. However, it is better to see once than to hear a hundred times. And to see and hear from different ...