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Creativebug brings you the latest in art and craft education, and works with renowned artists to do so. Sign up for Creativebug with your library card and you'll enjoy unlimited free access to thousands of online art and craft classes taught by expert instructors. Watch their classes anytime, anywhere. Since classes never expire, you can start and stop projects at your own pace.
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Creativebug.com
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2020.
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1 online resource (1 video file): color, sound
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Once you've taken Yao's Beginning Watercolor workshop, you're ready to learn more complex techniques. Yao begins this 2-part course by sharing her unique style of painting roses, tulips, peonies and more. In the second class, she focuses on layering techniques, showing how to use watercolor's transparent qualities to create stunning abstract paintings and gestural landscapes. By the end of this skill-building course, you will have learned how to create...
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Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (1 video file): color, sound
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English
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In celebration of Creativebug's birthday, Courtney demonstrates simple watercolor techniques ideal for a quick celebratory card. This video originally appeared live May 16, 2019.
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Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (1 video file): color, sound
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English
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Courtney shows how a simple watercolor wash makes the perfect background for a dreamy embossed holiday card.This video originally appeared on Facebook Live on November 3, 2016.
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Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (1 video file): color, sound
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English
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Feeling artistic but intimidated because you don't think you can draw? Molly shares her process of creating a piece of art based on found imagery. She covers where to source material as well as how to group and gather elements into a painting. The final image is translated through your own hand - with all the artistic charm and none of the self-doubt that too often creeps into creating art.
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Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (1 video file): color, sound
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English
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Explore the versatility of masking fluid with watercolor artist Yao Cheng. Yao demonstrates a number of ways you can use resist techniques with watercolor, including abstract and representational patterns using brushes and a pen nib. Then she shows you how to let the watercolors flow over the masking fluid, creating gorgeous backdrops for your resist patterns.
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Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (1 video file): color, sound
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English
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Artist and educator Cleo shows us her new book - The Opposite is Also True: A Journal of Creative Wisdom. Please be advised that this giveaway is now closed. This video originally appeared live October 9, 2018.
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Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (1 video file): color, sound
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English
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Believe it or not, your paintbrushes and tools can serve you well for years as long as you clean and care for them properly. In this quick class, Lisa Solomon demonstrates how to clean your tools like a pro. You will learn how to scrape your palette clean, and how to thoroughly clean and care for your brushes between uses.
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Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (1 video file): color, sound
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English
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Learn how to paint a new flower every day with help from acclaimed watercolor artist, Yao Cheng. Known for her flowing, elegant style, Yao shares her technique for capturing the feeling of flowers rather than trying to paint them realistically. In each part of this 31-day challenge, she explores the ideal brush strokes needed to paint the petals and leaves of popular flowers like dahlias, poppies, peonies and hydrangeas. Through these daily lessons,...
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Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (1 video file): color, sound
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English
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Since Jennifer Mercede and Pam Garrison are in the studio filming a 30 day Collaborative Art class, we thought we'd put their skills to the test by setting a timer. When the two minutes are up, they must switch canvases, and arty mayhem ensues. This video originally appeared live January 21, 2019.
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Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (1 video file): color, sound
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English
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Join us for a month-long creative journey with artist and illustrator, Lisa Congdon. In this 31-day painting challenge, Lisa shares her love of designing colorful patterns and painting with gouache. Each day you will learn how to paint a new pattern, including traditional designs, botanicals, geometric shapes and motifs made from everyday objects. Challenge yourself to draw inspiration from the world around you, working alongside Lisa as you hone...
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Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (1 video file): color, sound
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English
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Daily painter Erika Lee Sears shares her love of oil paints and the tips and tricks she's picked up after five years - and counting - of painting every single day. Learn brush handling, how to mix the perfect "black," and how to work with oil paints in a no-fuss, carefree way. Painting these simple sketches for an entire month enables good working habits and develops a familiarity and comfort with often-daunting oil paint. You'll work from included...
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Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (1 video file): color, sound
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English
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Learn how to mix and manage colors in this artistic primer course. Illustrator Molly Hatch explains how the color wheel works, showing how to mix secondary and tertiary colors using primary colors, and how to mix tints and shades. Finally, she demonstrates how to create a personalized palette for your artwork with a fun coloring book page exercise (PDF included with class).
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Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (1 video file): color, sound
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English
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Gouache can be an elusive medium. How do you pronounce it? How do you use it? Painter, educator, author and illustrator Cleo Papanikolas of Cleomade will teach you everything you need to know about gouache, how to paint with it, and how to find your own painting style. Her latest book, The Opposite is Also True, explores how trying to find the "best way" or the "right way" to do something in art can result in discovering that the opposite way is also...
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Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (1 video file): color, sound
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English
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Courtney demos the newest palettes from Prima Watercolor Paints. Please be advised that this video originally appeared live November 6, 2018 and that the giveaway is now closed.
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Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (1 video file): color, sound
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English
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The luminous quality of watercolor gives you so much opportunity to play with color, light, and texture, yet oftentimes the paint can have a mind of its own. Artist and illustrator Sasha Prood shares her impressive tool kit of tips and techniques to give you more control of your watercolor painting while also embracing the stroke of each brush. Begin with the basics, like wet-on-dry vs. wet-on-wet, flat washes and color gradients, and then experiment...
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Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (1 video file): color, sound
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English
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Courtney Cerruti chats with artists Lisa Congdon and George McCalman about what they have been doing to stay sane and creative during this challenging time. We'll discuss how this pandemic has shaped their work and their online communities and talk about new projects that have emerged (and endured) throughout. This exclusive event aired live on May 27, 2020.
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