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Artists of all ages: gather your empty cereal and cracker boxes and get ready for a joyful month of sketching, painting, and play with illustrator, toy maker, and storyteller Suzy Ultman. In this daily practice, you'll turn cardboard from food packaging into a cute and colorful set of painted alphabet letters. Each day, you'll create a new letter, starting with cutting out your shapes using Suzy's PDF templates. If you prefer not to cut cardboard,...
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This class will be available to view July 4, 2023. Do you love looking at tiny things and making tiny things? Illustrator, toy maker, and storyteller Suzy Ultman welcomes you to her tiny world and shows you how to transform an ordinary cardboard box into an extraordinarily cute dollhouse cafe. Find out how to trim down your box, cut out little doors and windows, and paint on colorful details to give your cafe character. You can add a second floor...
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For beginning artists, nothing is more elusive than learning how to use simple lines to create dimensional artwork. In this class, artist and illustrator Molly Hatch starts at the very beginning, covering all of the elemental tools and materials you'll need to get started, and demonstrating how simple lines can be used to create contoured shapes. From there, you'll learn fundamental exercises for adding depth and dimension to line work. This course...
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Discover the talented oil painter within yourself as you learn to paint a bucolic landscape with professional artist Christopher Clark. In this class he demonstrates his entire painting process, from selecting his favorite materials to the thought behind each brush stroke. Inspired by the Impressionist movement and 19th century artists who are known for capturing the beauty of light, Christopher teaches how to bring this luminous quality to your painting....
45) AppliquГ© Tunic
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Create a modern, two-tone tunic from jersey t-shirts, and add a graphic pop with an appliquГ© design of mixed prints. Amy shows how to make design decisions when you create your tunic, as well as how to prep and machine appliquГ© a design. This project incorporates a quilting technique into a fashion project, with Amy's fresh sensibilities.
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Stitch a memento of a place that evokes special memories, such as your childhood home or a summer cabin. Rebecca Ringquist shows you how to transfer a photocopy onto fabric and stitch its likeness with love, sentimentality, and four basic embroidery stitches. Finish with a loop of ribbon and your heirloom ornament is complete.
47) Stencil DГ©cor
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Elevate everyday objects with stencils. Amy shows how to transform anything from clothing and furniture to glassware and enamel--with a fresh design. Amy's motif is included as a download, and she also shows you how to create your own design and then apply evenly to any surface that will benefit from a vibrant new design.
48) Gumdrop Pillow
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Learn to make stacks of these pillows in all different combinations of fabric. Their oversized scale lends a cozy drama to any part of your home. Amy shows you how to build the pillow in sections, insert an invisible zipper and finish the pillow. Bring one of Amy's signature styles into your sewing repertoire and your home.
49) Quilted Wall Art
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Create a textural piece of fabric art while you also learn the mechanics of machine quilting. This project covers all the aspects of machine quilting but on a smaller scale. Amy talks you through what prints work well for this project and how to emphasize different elements and motifs in your fabric through your design decisions. She even covers how to refinish vintage frames. The finished project showcases beautiful print fabrics while refining your...
50) Winter Wreath
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This holiday season, make a festive wreath with Alethea and Jill of Studio Choo. Using a variety of evergreen branches, berries, pods and pinecones, Jill demonstrates how to snip branches down to manageable pieces and attach them securely to a wire wreath form. As she walks you through the process of building the wreath, Jill shares her signature ideas for combining different kinds of foliage to create a wild, organic look.
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The Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health is an authoritative source on public health issues. Topics focus on health crises affecting the public at large, ranging from epidemic and pandemic diseases (H1N1, Malaria, food-borne illnesses, West Nile etc.); chronic conditions such as famine, malnutrition, cancer and diabetes; and social issues such as sexual abuse, obesity, bullying and new substance abuse issues, plus much more.
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Health psychology is a rapidly expanding discipline at the interface of psychology and clinical medicine. This new edition is fully reworked and revised, offering an entirely up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible, one-stop resource for clinical psychologists, mental health professionals and specialists in health-related matters. There are two new editors: Susan Ayers from the University of Sussex and Kenneth Wallston from Vanderbilt University Medical...
53) Flower Arranging
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In this class, Alethea and Jill of Studio Choo teach the basics of making a gorgeous tabletop centerpiece, perfect for a holiday dinner. The arrangement begins with a lush framework of seasonal evergreen branches, and grows with flowers like amaryllis, ranunculus, and tulips that add pops of color. Berry branches are added last to create movement. As Jill explains her design process, the arrangement takes shape before your eyes, demonstrating how...
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Due to popular demand, we are thrilled to present another Daily Drawing Challenge. For 29 days, we will release bite-sized drawing classes taken from the Creativebug archives. Taught by expert drawing instructors Molly Hatch and Heather Ross, you'll learn classic techniques for rendering everyday objects as well as opportunities to practice your blind contour skills. To see the full classes from which our Daily February Challenge originated, check...
55) Winter Garland
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In this class, Alethea and Jill of Studio Choo show you how to make a festive holiday garland using seasonal greenery. The garland uses a branch as a base for a clean, modern take on holiday garlands. You'll see how to work with seasonal greenery including boxwood, cedar, wax flower, and seeded eucalyptus branches. A fragrant gardenia adds an unexpected touch of elegance. Throughout the class, Althea shares her philosophy for creating an organic design...
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"A liberty-defending survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution in China makes a passionate case that history is eerily repeating itself as the Woke Revolution spreads across America. Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later escaped communism and found freedom and new a life in America. But more than 30 years...