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Teaching Techniques for Beginning Basket Weaving with Cheryl Dixon

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“So the next thing to do is go around and bend them over on top of themselves, all of them, because you’re breaking that fiber down. You can see I’m doing it, two handed. Now what happens if one of them breaks? They won’t at this point in time, I made sure that these, and if I had one that was kind of wimpy or something, then somewhere down in here, I would have replaced it with a more substantial piece I would have noticed. The key here to avoid the breakage is in the rehydration and that fabric’s offer was helped soften it. So just going to continue around here.”

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Tracing Features to Create Look Alike Puppets with Barry Gordemer

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“So one of the first things that you can do, and again, this is something you can clearly do with tracing paper is just trace his features and this is both valuable and completely not helpful at the same time. And we’re going to show you what’s good and bad. So what I’m going to do is, trace over his features. And what you’re going to see in the tracing process is that the features that make up our face really aren’t the features that make up who we are. We are somehow more than the sum of our facial features. ”

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How to Carve Freeform Shapes From Glass and Stone with Jack Hoque

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“So I’m going to grab my sandpaper and kind of shape, shape this and shaping it on, on a flat surface helps a lot. Grit of the sandpaper. The grit of the sandpaper is three 20 grit wet, but I would recommend getting a nice wood sandpaper. That’s a little bit faster than this. This is just kind of all I grabbed when I left the door from home. So right now I’m just kind of, I’ve got it at an angle. I’m kind of creating a point on it again, kind of like the top part, but then I’m going to roll it like this to kind of create that ball right now. I’m just sculpting it into the small ball shape that I want.”

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Painting Tips for Dimensional Paper Clay Art with Rogene Manas

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“I have an example here. I’m going to start with, and I’m going to use just the black, I’m just going to start with black. I’m going to do this on a flower here. I’m not using thick paint. This is very important. I’m using thin paint and the grayer, meaning, the thinner the paint, the grayer, the lighter your work is going to appear. So if maybe if you’re doing flowers, you don’t want it to be heavy black. Maybe you want it to be a softer color. So we’ll just do a half of it at a time.”

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Testing Colors While Painting Watercolor Portraits with Colleen Reynolds

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“So another thing I like to do before, if I’m, hesitant of what color combinations to do. I like to have a piece of just clear paper, the paper that I’m actually going to paint on though, not some bad paper and just test your colors before you start and see what they, see what they look like. So I have a little bit of that. Ozzy red, gold I talked about is kind of a new color I don’t know much about. So maybe on a piece of scrap paper, that’s professional grade, the same paper I’m going to use for my painting. I’ll take my combination of colors and I’ll do a little triangle swatch. So this is my pression blue, so it’s quite dark.”

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Detailing With Darks When Painting Watercolor Portraits with Colleen Reynolds

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“So I’m just gonna put a couple of dark. So usually on a face, the darkest dark should be the eyeball area, and I’m just going to hint at it. Must’ve been an American, ask him that question And I’m just going to soften that whole area. Try to get a hint of a pupil and that. Face of the eye. Notice I haven’t gone to my little brushes and I’m going to take this blue and I’m going to create this cast shadow from the lens or the, your piece of the glasses and the cast shadow.”

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Problem Solving for Beginning Basket Weaving with Cheryl Dixon

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This is a course for an experience level and for beginners who are ready for some different techniques. Create and design your own basket!!

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Teaching Techniques for Beginning Basket Weaving with Cheryl Dixon

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“So I had a lot of questions about what do you do when you run out and as you can see, I’m running out. But I still have to go, Oh, a big chunk over here. Very easy. What I’m going to do is I’m going to go back. I always weave these as far as I can. And splicing, triple twining can be very tricky, very tricky. And if you don’t get the right weavers in the right order, it will just be wacky. So after I’ve gone under this first, the first spoke that I took, I’m just going to clip that off on the inside. And then immediately I’m going to insert a new piece and all I’m doing is putting that right behind it.”

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The First Steps for Painting Watercolour Portraits with Colleen Reynolds

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“So I want to start adding color. So here we go gets kind of scary. I want to use a higher value in the temple area and as outside light, tends to get cooler as it goes into the light. I’m going to start with yellow just because yellow gets, polluted easier. I’m going to go into the pure yellow and go ahead and break the form a little bit. And I’m going to kind of go to the blue in the outside light at the top of the head and where they meet. It’ll start to create a green tone. I like to put the blue in the eye socket area and let it sort of drain down the head.”

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Detailing the Eyes While Painting Watercolour Portraits with Colleen Reynolds

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Learn the basic planes of the human head and evaluate pigment choices for a variety of skin tones. Make your next masterpiece by taking this watercolor portrait online course. Over 9 hrs of pure instruction by Watercolor artist Colleen Reynolds

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Applying the Fur for a Fantasy Fox Posable Art Doll with Jenny Roemmich

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I’m going to put a little bit glue down, trying to get it as flush to the face as you can. So what I mean by that is it’s not bubbling up off your face. You just want a really thin layer. This is where that nozzle comes in useful, and you take your nippers. Let’s see if I can get this up here to take your nippers, find your edge, and then just cut off some of that for. So with fur, so you don’t have to cut a ton. I cut a little bit more than I normally do. I usually cut about this much, just so I have a little bit to work with. If you have a straight edge, great. If you don’t cut a straight edge and you can feather it too, if any of you have done Cedar makeup or anything like that, what I mean by feathering is you’re going to put your thumb. You’re going to slide it back a little bit. So what it’s doing to the fur is it’s taking this top layer and it’s scooting it back, but the bottom layer is still on this finger. And so it’s staying forward. So now I have a little bit of variation in where my foot is going to end up. So it’s not a straight blunt line. It’s more feathered.

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Pandemic impact: Artists thriving in Salt Lake City

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The pandemic has affected multiple businesses related to cultural events and arts in Utah. Some local artists have seen their income plunge to zero due to cancelation of events, galleries being closed etc.

One company in Utah is making sure artists thrive during this time while gaining international and national exposure.

Curious Mondo in South Salt Lake livestream art related courses to artists all over the world.The company is run by a mother and daughter duo

With its informal and very interactive format it educates, entertains and keeps creators minds engaged in positive activities.

Every week a new course streams live to over 30 countries and it is free for anyone to watch.

At the same time provides substantial income to artistseverywhere in the country providing these courses while boosting the local economy.