Crafting with Gourds: Building, Painting, and Embellishing Birdhouses, Flowerpots, Wind Chimes, and More (Fox Chapel Publishing) 10 Step-by-Step Projects for Natural, Seasonal Décor from Lora S. Irish
This complete artist’s guide to gourd crafting provides authoritative advice on a wide range of gourd decoration techniques!
- 10 step-by-step projects with bright, clear project photography
- Learn to make delightful centerpieces, carved gourds, outdoor birdhouses and feeders, candle lights, containers, decorative musical instruments, & more
- Covers a variety of color media, including craft acrylics, artist’s oils, watercolors, dyes, colored pencils, marking pens, pastels, crayons, & more
- Author Lora S. Irish explains all the gourd art basics including safety, cleaning, cutting, surface prep, transferring designs, & finishing
Crafting with Gourds provides useful tips & techniques on a wide range of color media, from craft acrylics and artist’s oils to dyes, pastels, watercolors, marking pens, colored pencils, crayons, and more.
Featuring bright and clear project photography, this comprehensive crafting manual explores a wide variety of coloration options for each gourd decoration method.
Ten step-by-step projects show how create natural, seasonal décor using painting, carving and pyrography techniques. Author and nationally recognized artist Lora S. Irish explains all the basics of gourd art, including safety, cleaning, cutting, surface prep, transferring designs, and finishing.
Inside Crafting with Gourds, you’ll learn how to make delightful centerpieces, candle lights, jars, vases, and decorative musical instruments, as well as birdhouses, feeders and fun little bee houses for the garden!
