Doodling Borders for Wood Burning, Gourds & Drawing

Author: Bettie Lake
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
ISBN: 9780764347504
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Patterns are so much a part of our lives that we often take them for granted. There are times when an artist working in any medium needs to create a pattern with specific complexity or form. This book takes you step-by-step through the process of drawing twenty-five patterns for wood burning and gourd decoration--with different variations and shading techniques--and applying and adapting the patterns with an easy drawing method. Learn how to improve your drawing skills while applying interest to the patterns as you use them in abstract compositions, create your own variations, and confidently enter your work in gourd or wood burning competitions. Also included are tips and suggestions for wood burning artists who are looking for something not found in typical woodcraft books. Beginning and master gourd artists will find inspiration for designs here, beyond the limited selection offered by clip art and transfers.

Gourd Art

Author: David Macfarlane
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 1402753683
Category : Carving (Decorative arts)
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Provides examples from twenty artists along with information on their tools, methods, and influences.

Gourd Pyrography

Author: Jim Widess
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402745027
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description
A guide to gourd pyrography--using heat to create works of gourd art--that discusses gourd prep and work basics, provides step-by-step instructions for several designs and techniques, and presents secrets from fifty artists.

Decorating Gourds

Author: Sue Waters
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
ISBN: 9780764313127
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Discover the wonderful art of gourd carving and produce gourd-geous results in a minimal time! Gourds grow in all shapes and sizes, and no two are alike. This book shows you how to prepare a gourd for decoration, and then lets your creativity soar! Step-by-step photos and text demonstrate several techniques you could use, including carving, woodburning, painting, staining, stenciling, and pine needle weaving. The projects covered here include vessels, a hanging potpourri, and an adorable Santa Claus. Patterns are included to get you started, and a color photo gallery displays finished projects.

Quick & Easy Gourd Crafts

Author: Mickey Baskett
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402727849
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
New in Paper With a simple gourd, it's easy to make an astonishing variety of bowls, boxes, baskets, pitchers, and dippers, as well as musical instruments and toys. Choose from the many inviting shapes, from the kettle to the canteen, the bushel basket to the snake. Carve, burn, wax, varnish, and color them with paints, dyes, oils, and markers to work their smooth, three-dimensional surfaces. Basic, time-tested techniques for making practical works of art show you how to grow, dry, and clean them, or where to buy gourds readymade for projects such as a child's elephant pull toy, planters, lamps, and birdhouses. "[A] collection of uncomplicated, step-by-step projects for...large gourds, which are fun to work with and readily available...a good selection."--Library Journal

Cut-Out Gourd Techniques

Author: Susan Nonn
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
ISBN: 9780764342967
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
For gourd artists looking to improve their skills with the mini jigsaw with 221 colored images and step-by-step instructions for ten projects.

Making Gourd Musical Instruments

Author: Ginger Summit
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402745034
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description
Provides step-by-step instructions for making, decorating, and playing more than sixty string, wind, and percussion instruments made from gourds, along with numerous color photos and cultural information on the instruments' places of origin.

Complete Book of Gourd Carving

Author: Jim Widess
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402704420
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Jim Widess and Ginger Summit, the best-selling authors of The Complete Book of Gourd Craft and Making Gourd Instruments, have done it again: they’ve produced another winner to delight the many crafters who work with gourds. Large, lavish, and astonishingly comprehensive, this breathtaking volume introduces every tool and every technique associated with gourd carving, offers fabulous projects that advance in difficulty, and presents a gallery of works designed to inspire. See how to choose and prepare a gourd, impress the surface with a design, and work with green gourds. The magnificent methods of decorative carving covered include fretwork, engraving, chip carving, carving with gouges, relief carving, inlay, and deep relief or sculptural carving. Throughout, color photographs of exquisite carved gourds present crafts styles from countries around the world. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.

Gourd Art Basics

Author: Angela Mohr
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
ISBN: 9780764328299
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In this new gourd book, author Angela Mohr demonstrates how to select and prepare gourds from the garden and demonstrates basic techniques for cleaning, shaping, and fixing gourds, which then can be decorated for everyday use, such as bowls and vases.\nThis do-it-yourself how-to is perfect for any beginning gourd artisan to learn the finer points of a gourd, fix their common flaws and put the gourds to good use as accessories around the house.

The Principles of Ornament

Author: James Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description