Saturday All Day (8:30-5:00)

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WINTER WONDERLAND

Pat Farley

You will be creating a beautiful snowman. Quikwood nose, painted eyes and mouth. Painting a simple village scene of trees and homes and adding snow paint for depth around. Finishing your beautiful gourd, you will add a scarf and hat with a couple embellishments and light glitter spray.

Size: approx. 8 inches tall by 6 inches wide

Cost: $52.00

Saturday All Day 8:30am-5:00pm

All

Min: 4

Max:12

Students Must Bring: heat gun, all size brushes from 1 inch flat to liner

S-AM-4

Closed Coiling for Roly-Poly Gourds

Judy Zeigler and Jody Retford

This is the "no more roly-poly gourd" technique. After alcohol inking the gourd, you will coil a base on a cannonball gourd so it will stand perfectly. Then, the top rim will be coiled. Learn to go straight up, add a flared rim, or create a rim treatment with your own ideas. Learn to add beads and accessorize the top.

Size: The gourd will be 5-6 inches in diameter. Finished size will depend on the number of rows coiled.

Cost: $87.00

Time: Saturday All Day 8:30am-5:00pm

Skill Level: All

Min: 6

Max: 15

Students Must Bring: Apron, beads with 1/16" hole, beads, etc. to accessorize the gourd.

S-AM-5

Fill It In With Sea Shells

Vickie Echols

Students will learn to coil pine needles onto a prepared gourd while working on shaping techniques. We will concentrate on completely filling in the opening of the gourd while working sliced sea shells in-between the coils. We will be using dyed & glycerinated pine needles for this project.

Size: 6-7" x 7-8"

Cost $77.00

Time: Saturday All Day 8:30am-5:00pm

Skill Level: All

Min: 5

Max: 12

Students Must Bring: Sharp scissors, tiny wire cutters, small needle nose plyers

S-AM-9

Double Rose Pyrography

Troy Tatum

Dust off your woodburner and let's have some fun creating the double rose design on a gourd. Whether you are new to woodburning or are a seasoned professional, this class will improve your woodburning skills. We will focus on the low heat shading technique to add the tonal value to the design and utilize ink dyes to color the background. The gourd shape furnished for the class may vary from the photo but will nicely accommodate the 4 1/2-inch design.

Size: 5 to 7 inch diameter

Cost: $57.00

Time: Saturday Morning 8:30am-11:30pm

Skill Level: All

Min: 4

Max: 12

Students Must Bring: An adjustable temperature woodburner with a skew (knife like pen tip) pen, a ball shader or other shaders (I like a 1/16-inch ball for most of the shading on this project).

S-AM-11

Elegance and Texture 2

Ellen Tatum

Bring your imagination and learn how to combine yarns and texture (created with a carver) to create a beautiful gourd. The best of both worlds Elegance and Texture. Students will be learning how to combine yarns, choose colors in inks that compliment the yarns, how to create texture with a carver, how to lace the yarns to the gourd rim and how attach the embellishments. (Please bring your own embellishment as I may not have any that go with the colors you choose.) I will bring several baskets of craft yarns.

Size: 6" diameter

Cost: $47.00

Time: Saturday Morning 8:30am-11:30pm

Skill Level: All

Min: 2

Max: 12

Student Must Bring: Embellishment, gloves, mask, carver and heat gun.

S-AM-12

Washi Framed Gourds

Deborah Hildinger

Learn how to work with cradled frames so that you can hang your gourds on the wall. Students will collage Japanese washi paper on their two provided mini gourds. They will then learn to gold leaf on a gourd stem and mount gourds into the 8" x 8" provided frame. Please note: photo shown is for reference only.

Size: 8 inches x 8 inches

Cost: $67.00

Time: Saturday Morning 8:30am-11:30pm

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Min: 4

Max: 12

Students Must Bring: a rotary carver with small ball burrs (these will be used to make a divot in the washi paper to hold a glued seed bead). Everything else is provided. Don’t forget to bring an apron!

This Class is Full

Peeking Owls

Cara Bevan

Hooo goes there! In this sculpting class, we're going to be making an owl peeking out of a gourd. We will be using 4-hour curing Apoxie Sculpt clay and sculpting them step-by-step. I'll show you how to make individual chest feathers, the life-like details of the face, and the convincing textured bark rim to make it appear like a real owl is hiding inside it. We'll learn how to make the "following" glass eyes and set them for a even more realistic look. Because of how long they take to sculpt, we will not be painting them in class. Everyone will be able to finish sculpting one owl and a wood base will be provided for each.

Size: 10" tall

Cost: $67.00

Time: Saturday Morning 8:30am-11:30pm

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Min: 3

Max:12

Students Must Bring: Your own sculpting tools

S-AM-15

Woody the Forest Gnome with Powertex

The gnomes are back!
Susan Crowe

This whimsical gnome brings good cheer and a touch of nature to brighten your home. We will be constructing Woody’s hat out of everyday household materials, then dipping and draping fabric using Powertex Textile Hardener. Learn how to incorporate fabric, naturally found objects and artificial floral elements all in one project. Feel free to bring any of your favorite natural items or silk floral elements that you would like to incorporate into his woodland hat.

Gourd is approximately 8" tall with hat up to 13" tall

Cost: $67.00

Saturday Morning 8:30am-11:30pm

Beginner/Intermediate

Min: 1

Max: 12

Students Must Bring: A box of disposable gloves.
Paint brushes.
A heat gun.
An apron or smock.
Paper and pen for taking notes.

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