Video Workshop: Get On Board with Gourds! – Jelly Bean Class with Gretchen Parker

Yes, colored pencil on gourds!

Gretchen’s entertaining and very informative slide presentation will give you everything you need to know to begin your very own gourd creation! She will show you various colored pencil works on gourds and introduce some of the tools used when creating a colored-pencil-on-gourd treasure. Gretchen will share some of her completed gourd art, and her slides will take you clearly through the whole process, including growing, cleaning, and completing a gourd project.

In this video workshop you’ll learn:
• How to clean gourds.
• How to prepare the gourd surface for drawing.
• Tools used to cut and emboss a gourd surface.

About Gretchen Parker

Gretchen is a retired occupational therapist and has enjoyed crafting all her life. OTs often use crafts as a treatment modality so making the leap to gourd art was not a large one. After creating a CP project on wood she began to experiment on the gourds she grows.

Here’s what you get!

• 90 minutes of top-notch instruction.
• A link to the full video recording of the first time this class was held.
• Feedback from the instructor.

You’ll have anytime-always video access. Learn at your own speed… and refer to it again and again.

Requirements:

• Laptop, PC, Mac, tablet or iPad with speakers.
• No supplies required, this video workshop is a slide show demonstration.

What’s a Jelly Bean Class?

Small, sweet and hard to stop at just one, Jelly Bean classes are our newest way to help you and your colored pencil life bloom. Each short, focused class is a mere 60 to 90 minutes, but you’ll learn lessons you can use for a lifetime. Small projects or single topics that deserve a bit of delving into, Jelly Beans will enhance your skill set and knowledge base in a fun, quick fashion, all from the comfort of your own home.