Creating Look-Alike Puppets Learn to make puppets that look like people you know. You’ll learn techniques for identifying and creating the shapes make up an individual’s facial features. Then you’ll learn how to reproduce those shapes three-dimensionally in foam rubber and fabric. Understand the differences between a likeness and a caricature. You’ll also learn how to create unforgettable faces that burst with expression and life.
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.
Ever wondered how polymer artist Melissa Terlizzi sculpts her whimsical frogs and toads? Here is your opportunity to find out, as she shares with Mondo Makers all the techniques and tricks to making a big green bullfrog! In this 3 Day sculpting course, Melissa will not only demonstrate how to make the frog, but will also create a raised pond for it to sit in, elevating a simple “sculpt” into a story-telling piece of art. With swamp-tastic bonus classes also planned, this course is a must for anyone who loves creating animals out of polymer clay, and enjoys getting carried away with color and detail. Great course on polymer clay!
Learn how to create beautiful beaded flowers using the French Beading technique. You will learn: Basic Framing, Spikes, Loops, Loop around Lacing …and much more! All while creating gorgeous flowers that you can use for decor, head bands and art pieces! Come make a whole garden of French beaded flowers. No French necessary.
Join Melissa Terlizzi for this fun and educational Animal Pendants in Polymer Clay online course. Learn how to make 3 different polymer clay pendants: a big-eyed chameleon on a leaf, a tropical tree frog, and an exotic goldfish. Students will learn how to blend the clay and shape each animal, how to add texture and attach all the features. We will also provide tips on ways to help strengthen the pendants, and ensure they hang properly.
Learn how to create unforgettable faces that burst with expression and life. Creating Look-Alike Puppets Learn to make puppets that look like people you know. You’ll learn techniques for identifying and creating the shapes make up an individual’s facial features. Then you’ll learn how to reproduce those shapes three dimensionally in foam rubber and fabric. Understand the differences between a likeness and a caricature.
“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.”
“I have already painted this with the black power techs and I’ve sprayed it with the black flat, spray paint outside in my little spray booth outside. What I want to talk to you about before we move on to the actual, painting is the fact that when you’re spraying with it, be cautious about what you’re breathing in.
I have a mask that I used, I put on to kind of filter the air. And if you look at the floor after you sprayed for any length of time, there’s all kinds of spray paint dust on the floor. And if you’re not careful, all that’s going into your one. So I want you to be real careful about wearing a mask.
I keep brushes and I even have a pumice stone in the shower so I can keep everything off my hand anyways, just be cautious. All right. that’s my golden rule of when I’m out there painting.”
And I’m in a fold under, so was just double checking that I want it kind of facing this way a little bit. So just folding under the, the top and pressing that down. Just making sure that it’s facing the right direction. And you want to make sure that’s nice and attached and then enrolling it down. So it’s kind of like the arm on a teacup or something, and then press it down. And then you kind of look at it from the side and make sure that it’s not squished down such that you can’t get your wire through. So I think I’ve got plenty of room. And I’m trying not to ruin my texture on there too much.
“And we’re just going to do a little piece, right about in the front there. This is a quarter-inch cable cord. And it doesn’t really matter if it’s nylon or something like that. It tends to really frame the stuff around the edges once you cut it. So I go in there with a little bit of hot glue and stop the firing and I get my fingers in a little water to avoid the pain. And then we can just go roll that around. Nice and neatly there. So a lip that will go right about there. That’s a little big, I think I’ll just get to take a little off the side there. It doesn’t need to be very big. So I, use rope for creating thing, little accents, like lips and, wrinkles. If I want to do it like a wrinkly forehead on something rope works really great for that.”
“When you go buy these at a flower shop or a craft store, you have different gauge of wire, the 18 gauge. So the way I see, I just pinched the package, the packet a little bit, because you have very soft ones. So I see if there is any resistance. And there is quite a bit, so I want that because again, it’s heavy, right? The glass is happy. So I want that. Now there is the 16. The problem is, sometimes you don’t find it. The 16 is even better than this one because it’s very sturdy. It makes it easier for us to make the flowers. I need to have some weight. If I had a lighter gauge, the moment I put the flower here, it starts root, right? It doesn’t stay. Even with this one. Sometimes many times I bend them to make it sturdier.”
“So I’m going to do a, say a stripe here, kind of like a Y shaped stripe in the middle and then another stripe, right by the tail. So I’ll start with that. Y shaped one. And just do exactly that. I know I’m not in the center of the tile, but okay. So I’m just gonna cut out a Y. This may not be long enough. Let’s let’s check it out. Actually. Hope nobody’s noticing how rusty my blades are. I was just going to go on there, kind of like that, and I’m going to trim those edges off so that it looks like it’s going around his back and then I’ll do another stripe.”
“I just want to make it fluffier. So I’m just taking my little picker stick and I’m seeing what it looks like. I’m like, not even like this, but this is playtime. So you can try it. If you don’t like it, you just fix it. You can do that. You don’t have to be worried that, Oh my God, I ruined this piece because I don’t like what I did. That’s just not how this kind of clean works. And actually, I don’t want it to go on the side like that. It’s not going to go off the side. So I’m just going to kick that off there. Cut this off here and see how this looks when I put it on the front of him. So return him around so you guys can see as well. So here he is. And I’ve screwed up his tail a little bit, but then I’m re fluff it, it will be fine. So this would come in front like this almost looks like an apron. Now he’s turned him into a real native American, I’m going to cut this as a, too big of a piece. If I just wanted to be feathers. If I wanted to dress him up in an apron, that would be another story I could do that, but that wasn’t my intention. So this will be here kind of laying in over.”
“So what’s going to happen here is this foam piece is going to go in inside the puppet there, and then the fingers will go underneath there. And so that’ll do it. And then this piece of foam core is going to go on the top because just my fingers in there, it’s going to cause that foam to push up and the foam core will give it just a little bit of rigidness sort of grips. But remember now I shortened the edges. We shorten those inside edges, to make this face a little more narrow. So I think I just want to shave a little off that inside back edge. So we keep those proportions nice and tight. Take taken off about a quarter. Won’t seem like much, but a quarter of an inch, five millimeters, add them together and it adds up to a half, an inch, 10 millimeters. Then you are talking about a significant noticeable change in the, in the features of the face.”
Tune in as we have a candid conversation with Joshua Von War-Bear about leather work, creating art, life as an artist, cosplay, playing with tools, and much more!
Tune in as we have a candid conversation with Roxanne Vigos about natural dyeing, creating art, life as an artist, eco-dyeing, playing with fibers, and much more!
Tune in as we have a candid conversation with Lisa Pavelka about making jewelry with resin, creating art, life as an artist, mixed-media jewelry, and much more!
Lisa produces beautiful pieces with Polymer clay and her branded techniques and Magic-Glos. She has taught several classes on Curious Mondo! Check Out Lisa Pavelka’s Classes
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!
Today it’s all about upcycled art from computer keys with Erik Jensen! Tune in as we have a candid conversation with Erik about upcycling, creating art, life as an artist, and much more!
Today it’s all about teddy bears and friends Michele Freeman! Tune is as we have a candid conversation with Michele about teddy bear making, life as an artist, and much more!
Today it’s all about wonders in paper clay with Rogene Manas! Tune is as we have a candid conversation with Rogene about paper clay, life as an artist, and much more!
On today’s episode of the Creativity in Focus podcast we chat with Lisa Pavelka. Lisa will share with us her creative process, talk about her art, her amazing polymer clay pieces, how she gets inspired and much more!
Lisa produces beautiful pieces with Polymer clay and her branded techniques and Magic-Glos. She has taught several classes on Curious Mondo! Check Out Lisa Pavelka’s Classes
On today’s episode of the Creativity in Focus podcast we chat with Artist Qingyu Li. Qingyu will share with us her creative process, talk about her art, her amazing sculptures, how she gets inspired and much more!
On today’s episode of the Creativity in Focus podcast we chat with Artist Kiyoshi Mino. Kiyoshi will share with us his creative process, talk about his art, his amazing sculptures, how he gets inspired and much more!
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 LoomThis scarf was done in a pin loom. Sarah also showed a shawl and a coat made with pin loom squares
On this episode of the Creativity in Focus podcast we chat with Artist Rosalind Soules. Rosalind will share with us her creative process, different types of paintings, how she gets inspired and much more!
Fun Fact: Rosalind is Karen Baker’s mom – yes, the sculptor! 🙂
Join us for today’s episode of Creativity in Focus as we interview and feature various artists who are creating beauty in this world through their art.
Today on our live podcast we’ll be talking about sculpting with artist Tiffany Flanagan! Tiffany will talk about the creative process, different types of sculptures, how she gets inspired and much more!
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.
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 SilversmithingElectroforming, Etching & Air ChasingGlass and Silver Fusion
This week on Creativity in Focus we chat with Becky Smith the Model Maker. Tune in on this fun and exciting conversation about character model making, sculpting, and puppets!
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,
Today we’ll be talking about puppets and ventriloquist figures with artist Barry Gordemer. Barry will talk about the creative process, NPR, puppets, ventriloquism and much more!
On today’s show we discuss the future of sculpting, where it is going, market changes, etc. Join Shahar Boyayan as she hosts another Episode of Creativity in Focus with Noemi Smith, Karen Baker, and Apryl Jensen.
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
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
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!
Sculpting with wool, part of our sculpting series. Join us for a candid conversation with the needle felt doll artist Colleen Spies, today on our podcast, Creativity in Focus! Shahar Boyayan chats with Colleen about the art of figurative sculpting with wool, the business, the life of an artist and more!
Today on our fantastic podcast, Creativity in Focus, Shahar Boyayan will be interviewing Kenneth Poole on an intimate discussion about being a gourd artist.
Tired of having the same stand as everybody else? Ready to make displays that fit YOUR art? Join Shahar and Jodi on Creativity in Focus today as they explore many different types of DIY stands and displays for your artwork.
Today on our fantastic podcast, Creativity in Focus, Shahar Boyayan will be interviewing Jenny Ferguson on an intimate discussion about being a fiber artist.
Jenny is also one of instructors at curiousmondo.com
On today’s episode we’ll be chatting with sculptor Karen Baker. Karen has been sculpting art dolls for over 10 years.
Karen Baker is also one of our favorite instructors at curiosmondo.com
Artist Jan Harris Smith talks about glass art and siversmithing. With Host Jodi McRaney Rusho.
She uses glass, rocks and metals to create amazing pieces.
Today on our fantastic podcast, Creativity in Focus, Jodi McRaney-Rusho will be interviewing Cheryl Peterson on an intimate discussion about being a stained glass artist.
This week Shahar is chatting it up with the awesome Shiflett Brothers! Tune in as they talk about art, life, business, and sculpting! These guys are awesome sculptors and very cool people!
Sarah has given some courses at Curious Mondo: 
This scarf was done in a pin loom. Sarah also showed a shawl and a coat made with pin loom squares
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 
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:
Cheryl is also one of our mentors at Curious Mondo, some of her available courses are: 
