How to Create a Heron Paverpol (Fabric Hardener) Sculpture

Sculpting

with Beverly Oliwa

In this Paverpol course we will build a Heron sculpture from beginning to end. Is your yard a boring landscape? Imagine a 4 ½ foot heron standing in your garden, keeping watch over your flowers and vegetables in the summer, and providing beauty all winter! This online Paverpol class is a great way to take some time for yourself, or get together with a friend for a fun experience.

Learn more about the course here:https://www.curiousmondo.com/paverpol-heron-course

Basic Bottle Glass Fusing

At Curious Mondo, Glass

with Jodi McRaney-Rusho

Learn how to make beautiful and creative fused glass art using bottle glass, molds and a kiln. Bottle glass is an inexpensive alternative to art glass that is also great for the environment. This fused glass course will take you through the absolute basics, including what tools you’ll need, all the way through multiple, increasingly complex projects. In this fusing glass course we will cover making fused glass art from whole bottles, two ways to cut bottles, how to make sheets of glass from cut bottles, fused donuts, fused bottle bottom molds with embellishments, kiln formed recycled glass beads and jewelry, Fuse and Fold animals-including two exclusive designs available only through this course. We will also explore how firing schedules work, what is happening at each stage and how to adjust your firing schedule. We will spend time reviewing common glass fusing problems and how to solve them.

Learn more about the course here: https://www.curiousmondo.com/basic-bottle-glass-fusing-course

See Corrections While Painting Watercolor Portraits with Colleen Reynolds

Painting

“So the first thing I want to do is correct this angle. So I’m going to pull out a little bit of the red to start with, and I’m going to get up on the tip of my brush so that I can get a fine line. And I’m using my floppy brush. That’s the official term for it. It is a floppy brush and I’m just going to bring that down to a point. And remember, I like to mix my colors on the page. So I’m going to neutralize that with the blue. Hopefully at the end, no one, but us will know. And a mistake in the beginning, unless you look really close, it is it’s apparent. So it’s going to show that line because what a color is a transparent medium, which is both, it’s most a desirable trait and it’s most frustrating trait all at once. I’m just going to correct that angle to my satisfaction. And then I’m going to caress that out. I really want a good clean edge. So that’s an important feature.”

Learn more about the course here: https://www.curiousmondo.com/watercolour-portraits-course

Overlapping Pedal Technique for a French Beading Flower with Shahar Boyayan

Glass

“Let’s now combine that to create another technique here that where you over lap, the paddles. So for the inside one, I want to have seven beats in my center, 3, 6, 7, or about half an inch. You would be right with either and you’re going to loop that like we did at the beginning. And you pinch, so you don’t have wire showing. And twist twice. For this one, we want three rolls of wrap around. So this is the first time we, we are doing the three roles, this course, three and four, the inside of my rows. I want, three rows, three paddles. So I have to do three more, two more. So again, same number or half an inch. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.”

Learn more about the course here: https://www.curiousmondo.com/french-beading-flowers-course

EP 46 – Jana Benzon – Polymer Clay Series – Creativity in Focus

Creativity in Focus

Today it’s all about polymer clay mushrooms with Jana Benzon! Tune in as we have a candid conversation with Jana about sculpting, creating art, life as an artist, polymer clay, and much more!

Jana’s work is so realistic, and and can be widely incorporated in the polymer clay sculpting work or used as Jewelry! She has taught a class showing how to make her realistic mushrooms on Curious Mondo!
Check it out!


EP 38 – Sarah Scott – Weaving and Knitting – Creativity in Focus

Creativity in Focus

On this episode of the Creativity in Focus podcast we chat with Artist Sarah Scott. Sarah will share with us her creative process, talk about her art, her knitting and weaving, how she gets inspired and much more! ? Sarah likes all forms of fiber art. She knits, spins and does pin loom weaving. Sarah has given some courses at Curious Mondo: Beginning Knitting Fun with Sarah and How to Weave with a Pin Loom This scarf was done in a pin loom. Sarah also showed a shawl and a coat made with pin loom squares

EP 33 – Steph Mystic Designs – Creativity in Focus

Creativity in Focus

Today on our live podcast we’ll be talking about wire art with artist Stephanie Traugh! Steph will talk about the creative process, different types of wire art, how she gets inspired and much more! Stephanie loves wire wrapping. Not only she makes some very fun jewelry pieces but some amazing trees. The wire trees she places on crystals, inside lanterns and much more. Steph has a course at Curious Mondo called The Art of Wire Tree Making.   

EP 32 – Jewelry Making with Jan Harris Smith – Creativity in Focus

Creativity in Focus

Today on our live podcast we’ll be talking about jewelry making with artist Jan Harris Smith! Jan will talk about the creative process, different types of jewelry, how she gets inspired and much more! Jan Harris is an accomplished jewelry maker. She works with glass and silvesmithing. She is a mentor at Curious Mondo with several courses. Some of them are: Beginning Silversmithing Electroforming, Etching & Air Chasing Glass and Silver Fusion

EP 28 – Basket Weaving with Cheryl Dixon – Creativity in Focus

Creativity in Focus

Today on our live podcast we’ll be talking about basket weaving with artist Cheryl Dixon! Cheryl will talk about the creative process, different types of basket, how she gets inspired and much more! Cheryl is also one of our mentors at Curious Mondo, some of her available courses are: Fast Track: Pottery Meets Weaving, Beginning Basket Weaving,

EP 24 – Deanna Baugh – Weaving – Creativity in Focus

Creativity in Focus

Join Shahar for a candid conversation with artist Deanna Baugh today on our podcast, Creativity in Focus! Shahar Boyayan chats with Deanna about the joy of weaving, the business side, the life of an artist and more! Deanna Baugh has been weaving for a long time and she weaves a lot. She has several looms and loves to try new things. She teaches at Pioneer house in Utah and at Curious Mondo. Some of her available courses are: Weaving a Scarf on a 4-Shaft Loom, Weaving on the Rigid Heddle Loom, Using a Pick-up Stick on a Rigid Heddle, Warping Your Loom from Front to Back

EP 23 – Aleah Klay – Sculpting Series – Creativity in Focus

Creativity in Focus

Join Shahar for a candid conversation with artist Aleah Klay today on our podcast, Creativity in Focus! Shahar Boyayan chats with Aleah about the art of sculpting miniatures the business side, the life of an artist and more! Aleah Klay is an amazing sculptor. Her love for animals shows in every single piece. The miniatures are adorable! Aleah Klay is a mentor at Curious Mondo. One of her courses is called:  Sculpt and Fabricate a Miniature Mouse

EP 22 – Beverly Oliwa – Sculpting with Textiles – Sculpting Series – Creativity in Focus

Creativity in Focus

Join Shahar for a candid conversation with artist Beverly Oliwa, today on our podcast, Creativity in Focus! Shahar Boyayan chats with Bev about the art of sculpting with textiles, the business side, the life of an artist and more! Beverly is known for her Garden sculptures. Most sculptures are made with t-shirts, wire and a textile hardener called Paverpol. She makes intricate pieces and has a passion for teaching other people about her techniques. Some of her courses at Curious Mondo are: Beginning Sculpting with Fabric Hardener, Intermediate Sculpting with Fabric Hardener and How to Create a Heron Paverpol Sculpt She also mentors the Paverpol certification program. What a great ambassador for this medium!