Barbara Schoenoff - Champaign, Illinois, USA

e-mail: bschonff@uiuc.edu

Class Description

The Fat Lady is one of Barbara’s new dolls in her Victorian Circus series. Delilah has never been taught so her “performance” at FAC 2009 will be her debut. This doll is characteristic of the Schoenoff style – brightly coloured, playful and with a beautiful face. Her soft sculptured body offers a wonderful opportunity to learn some challenging techniques.. Her 3 dimensional double chin is so cute and it will be fun to learn the technique for achieving this effect. The fact that she is both fat and beautiful is inspiring for women. And, she can be finished in a 2 day class!

Techniques to be Covered:

• Soft sculpting her body and face
• Wire armature
• Successful auditioning of fabrics and trim
* Face painting with water colour

Barbara Schoenoff received a Master of Fine Arts from Northwestern University in Costume Design. She has taught and/or designed at universities in the East and Midwest as well as Interlochen Arts Camp. She has designed for well over 100 plays including: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, and OLIVER. While she has been seriously designing and teaching dolls for 15 years, she actually started making dolls when she was four years old. She has won the Hoffman challenge, the Sulky Challenge and the Fiber Arts Connection Challenge “Myths and Legends”. She has taught in stores and for doll clubs, as well as at New Hampshire’s Week Of Workshops (WOW), Magic, Mischief & Mayhem (MMM) in Kentucky and the Enchanted Doll Artists Conference (EDAC) in New Mexico. She lives in Champaign, Illinois with her husband and two sons.

Barbara Schoenoff - Champaign, Illinois, USA

e-mail: bschonff@uiuc.edu

Class Description

If you sometimes struggle to find the appropriate props to provide the finishing touch for your dolls, this is the course for you. Barbara will draw on her experience in theatre to help you create unique accessories to enhance the staging of your doll. Using ornaments, found objects, wire, dowels, etc., we’ll make decorations fit for royalty.

Techniques to be Covered: gluing, wire working, painting, using Angelina, hot fix crystals, trimming, sawing, glittering, beading… taking everyday makings and creating doll–icious delights.

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