Teaching The Art Of Reborning
To an accomplished reborner, they next obvious step would be to pass on their craft to others.
Lessons in the art of reborning are an ideal way to pass on your knowledge to others while still earning an income from your craft.
You will need to consider class size and venue, if using an oven to heatset your paints, the amount of students you can have is limited, having a line up to use the oven would be a lack of productivity that would only frustrate and waste time.
If considering holding these lessons in your home, make sure you have the necessary insurance to cover anyone else who is in your home, this will safeguard you if someone becomes injured during a lesson.
Next, look at what area you have available to you to set up the work area.
A dining table would be the most practical, keeping the lesson to two students would give you ample space to each have the freedom to move your parts around a little, and also even oven time, one can be layering while the other has parts heatsetting.
Before advertising your lessons, take into consideration your time, and also what materials of your own your students may be using when you decide on what to charge, be upfront and let them know the total cost involved to create their lifelike baby.
This can include a kit, or you can encourage students to purchase their own prior to the lesson.
Be flexible with your time, these things can sometimes go over the allocated time you have set aside to teach, it is important your students get what they feel they have paid for.
If you advertise that you can show them how to create a reborn, that is exactly what you have to do.
Think back to when you started out, it may have taken you a little longer than it does now to get a grasp of certain techniques and procedures when painting your reborn.
Allow for this and be patient with your students, explaining as plainly as you can the process, so they can then retain that knowledge and repeat it when they are reborning in their own time.
Passing on your knowledge is an important part of evolving as an artist, if you know your skill, passed on it will only give reborning a greater following and provide more of a platform for you to focus on enlisting more students for your lessons.
Lessons in the art of reborning are an ideal way to pass on your knowledge to others while still earning an income from your craft.
You will need to consider class size and venue, if using an oven to heatset your paints, the amount of students you can have is limited, having a line up to use the oven would be a lack of productivity that would only frustrate and waste time.
If considering holding these lessons in your home, make sure you have the necessary insurance to cover anyone else who is in your home, this will safeguard you if someone becomes injured during a lesson.
Next, look at what area you have available to you to set up the work area.
A dining table would be the most practical, keeping the lesson to two students would give you ample space to each have the freedom to move your parts around a little, and also even oven time, one can be layering while the other has parts heatsetting.
Before advertising your lessons, take into consideration your time, and also what materials of your own your students may be using when you decide on what to charge, be upfront and let them know the total cost involved to create their lifelike baby.
This can include a kit, or you can encourage students to purchase their own prior to the lesson.
Be flexible with your time, these things can sometimes go over the allocated time you have set aside to teach, it is important your students get what they feel they have paid for.
If you advertise that you can show them how to create a reborn, that is exactly what you have to do.
Think back to when you started out, it may have taken you a little longer than it does now to get a grasp of certain techniques and procedures when painting your reborn.
Allow for this and be patient with your students, explaining as plainly as you can the process, so they can then retain that knowledge and repeat it when they are reborning in their own time.
Passing on your knowledge is an important part of evolving as an artist, if you know your skill, passed on it will only give reborning a greater following and provide more of a platform for you to focus on enlisting more students for your lessons.