Quick & Easy Gourd Crafts
Title | Quick & Easy Gourd Crafts PDF eBook |
Author | Mickey Baskett |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2005-08 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9781402727849 |
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
Gourd Crafts
Title | Gourd Crafts PDF eBook |
Author | Ginger Summit |
Publisher | Lark Books |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9781579901523 |
Contains twenty easy projects using gourds to create candleholders, a birdhouse, drinking cups, bracelets, and bowls.
Gourds in Motion
Title | Gourds in Motion PDF eBook |
Author | C. Angela Mohr |
Publisher | Schiffer Publishing |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 2019-11-28 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9780764358326 |
Bring new direction and inspiration to your gourd crafts by adding motion! Gourd art is often stationary--either elaborately decorated items of beauty or practical tools--and introducing motion breaks the world of gourd crafts wide open. Using small gourds and easily accessible tools and supplies, learn to make your gourd projects spin, jump, and more! Clear instructions and step-by-step photos teach how to generate four basic types of movement in any project: spinning, jumping, up and down, and rise and drop. Create a flock of moving flamingos, kinetic sculptures, a human in a swaying rowboat, spinners that create optical illusions, a duck that waddles complete with flapping sounds, and many more. Written with beginners in mind, these ideas provide inspiration for modern gourd crafters to explore new, dynamic, and active avenues for their creative talents.
Beginners Book of Gourd Craft
Title | Beginners Book of Gourd Craft PDF eBook |
Author | Kas Hirst |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 75 |
Release | 2015-01-20 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 1499031033 |
Looking for something different to inspire the artist within you? Why not try a gourd! Theyre fun to work with, so practical, and make great gifts. You can paint, decoupage, carve, mosaic, woodburn, or leave them in their natural state. Once you start, the possibilities are endless. So for people wanting either a new craft or a new medium for an old craft, give a gourd a go! Youll be surprised and delighted with what you discover in the gourds and in yourself. Here, I show you how to grow and decorate these amazing natural art mediums. Read on.
Gourds
Title | Gourds PDF eBook |
Author | Bonnie Gibson |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9781402725227 |
Gourds -- with their infinite variety of unusual shapes and sizes, and their smooth surfaces -- have provided a perfect canvas for artists in the American Southwest over many years. It's easy to carve, paint, and stain them, and add embellishments like beads and feathers. These beautiful projects, including rainsticks, masks, and bowls, reflect the traditional designs, techniques, and colors that are indigenous to this region.
A Step by Step Guide to Gourd Craft
Title | A Step by Step Guide to Gourd Craft PDF eBook |
Author | John Van Tol |
Publisher | |
Pages | 87 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Gourd craft |
ISBN | 9780646363455 |
The first and only book about crafting gourds. Shows basic ideas, step by step, to help anyone make a start on crafting and decorating gourds. Easy to understand instructions.
Complete Book of Gourd Carving
Title | Complete Book of Gourd Carving PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Widess |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9781402704420 |
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.