SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 - FRIDAY CLASSES
Carved Antique Finished Poppy
F-AM-1
Debbie Wilson
Learn how to carve a poppy flower in layered dimensions and then color with pencils, gesso and paint and sandpaper. Use of several bits will be employed for various carving techniques. Carbide bits are usually the best and the sharpest but steel bits will also work.
Friday All Day 9:00-6:00
Member Cost: $60 Non-Member Cost--$65
Number of Students: 2/12
Skill Level: All
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Students Must Bring: Rotary Carver that has the correct collets or an adjustable chuck. Please bring a face mask, apron, bits used are an inverted cone, ball nose, flame, and oval. If you have any diamond burs they will be good for smoothing. You can email me at artbasgo@gmail.com and I will send a picture of what I used. I recommend the carbide over the steel, they are sharper, but if steel burs are all you have bring them.
Leather and Cactus
F-AM-2
Marla GarberWe will design and wood burn ,then carve the leather design. Learn a easy way to apply the cactus fiber to the inside.
Friday All Day 9:00-6:00
Member Cost: $90 Non-Member Cost--$95
Number of Students: 6/12
Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Students Must Bring: Carver with assorted bits, Wood burner with rounded skew and Med. or Lg. Ball pen/nib, gourd saw and extra blades,
Faux Beading Christmas ornaments
F-AM-3
Karen Maloney
Christmas ornaments made with an egg gourd using pointillism method(faux beading) for design. Two gourds provided, one with grid one without. Instructions on how to put grid on for future ornaments
Friday Morning 9:00-1:00
Member Cost: $40 Non-Member Cost--$45
Number of Students: 2/12
Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Students Must Bring: Bring wood burner with a small skew tip or knife tip
Sculpted tree
F-AM-4
Katie Westmoreland
We will sculpt a tree of choice onto our gourd using quickwood. After our tree is set the way we like it, we will incorporate alcohol ink dyes in a way to cast shadows and dimension. This is a fun class!
Friday Morning 9:00-1:00
Member Cost: $45 Non-Member Cost--$50
Number of Students: 1/10
Skill Level: All
Students Must Bring: gloves, apron, clay tools if you have them.
Textured Gourd Adobe Style
F-AM- 5
Ellen Tatum
The textured gourd adobe style is made by using a new product that produces a great crackle finish (better than any on the market). I have been working with the product for several months and have learned some amazing textures using this medium, which also works for jewelry and is not hard to use. The crackle finish may be used to create a very smooth crackle finish or a very thick cracked earth finish.
Friday Morning 9:00-1:00
Member Cost: $50 Non-Member Cost--$55
Number of Students: 3/12
Skill Level: All
Students Must Bring: Drill for making holes for the rim and a heat gun.
Fall Wreath
F-AM-6
Susan Nonn
Make an oak leaf wreath to celebrate the beauty of fall. In class you will blend water base inks to imitate the fall palette of colors. You will also learn how to make acorns to use as accents. By the end of class you will have finished your ready to hang wreath.
Friday Morning 9:00-1:00
Member Cost: $40 Non-Member Cost--$45
Number of Students: 1/10
Skill Level: Beginners
Students Must Bring: 12” center twig wreath, needle nose pliers,heat gun or hair dryer.
Dresden Plate
F-AM-7
Nancy Amburgey
Learn to weave a special pattern on a circular gourd piece and then to weave along the outer edge, ending in an open pattern that complements the center. The gourd piece will be prepared and ready for the weaving. Final project will be approximately 9-10" in diameter. Experience weaving is helpful, but not required.
Friday Morning 9:00-1:00
Member Cost: $45 Non-Member Cost--$50
Number of Students: 4/12
Skill Level: All
Students Must Bring: Awl, Utility Scissors for trimming reed and Apron . Enthusiasm.
afternoon
River Lantern
F-PM-8
Kay Lovingood
Gourds lanterns are beautiful eye-catching additions to any decor. Learn to make a small luminary that depicts a free-flowing river tumbling down a rocky mountainside. As no two rivers are alike, so no two lanterns will be alike. This design of lantern easily adapts itself to many gourd shapes. Learn to pierce a gourd, carve lines and holes, create a hole for a light, and add any of several types of bases. You will go home with a finished project (or almost) and a tutorial to remind you how to make another.
The instructor will provide a prepared gourd; practice shards; dyes and applicators; sand paper; materials for bases; lamp cords; LED bulbs; spray sealers; and a detailed tutorial.
Friday Afternoon 2:00-6:00
Member Cost: $50 Non-Member Cost--$55
Number of Students: 4/10
Skill Level: All
Students must bring: High-speed carver, a carving bit such as a Steel Carving Drill Bit (SKU: 186 or SKU: 3610 from BlueWhaleArts.com) or any of the Filigree Burs from ArizonaGourds.com (located on the Carving Bur page), heat setting tool, pencil, mask, apron, gloves
Evening in the Foothills
F-PM-9
Terry and Sandy Jordan
Come create this tranquil scene of snow and deer in Pen and Ink Rouging. Sandy (a certified Mary Owens Instructor) will take you step-by-step, through the pen and ink rouging process. This unique process is done with India ink and oil paints. Everything to complete the class will be provided by the instructor. Come learn this beautiful technique. The rim and antler are not part of the class.
I want to thank Mary Owens for teaching me this beautiful technique.
Friday Afternoon 2:00-6:00
Member Cost: $55 Non-Member Cost--$60
Number of Students: 1/10
Skill Level: All
Students Must Bring: Nothing but an apron
Double Wall Basket
F-PM-10
Nancy Amburgey
The class will allow the student to learn to weave a double wall on a gourd bowl. Students will weave up to create a rim and then turn down for the double wall. It will be finished with a reed edge. Experience with weaving will be helpful, but not required.
Friday Afternoon 2:00-6:00
Member Cost: $55 Non-Member Cost--$60
Number of Students: 4/12
Skill Level: All
Students Must Bring: Awl, Utility Scissors, Apron.