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Artist Interviews: Marilyn Radzat
A new feature at That Creative Place is a series of Artist Interviews. We kick this feature off this month by featuring internationally acclaimed NIADA artist, Marilyn Radzat
Marilyn began teaching with That Creative Place early in 2007 with her First Key to the Door of Enchantment series She is currently working on a Second Key series for 2008.
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News and Reviews
Books
My new favorite book is about polymer clay and is written by Laurie Mika. It's called
Mixed Media Mosaics. I love the techniques of stamping into polymer and painting to create different textures and colors. It's actually addicting to work on these little tiles and It gives me a nice short break from my day to work here and there on them. I highly recommend this book.
New Instructors
Bill Nelson is a sculptor, illustrator and NIADA artist who will be teaching a series of workshops focused on sculpting and creating the character doll. He will also offer illustration workshops. We are privileged to host this world-class artist at That Creative Place.
His first workshop on sculpting the character head will begin on November 30th.
Go to Bill Nelson's Workshop Page
Visit Bill Nelson's Website
Dayle Doroshow is another new artist/instructor who will be offering workshops at That Creative Place. Dayle is the author or several books and videos on polymer clay. The workshop that she will be offering is called, Storytellers and Messengers. Up till now, she has only taught this class at physical workshops and I, for one, will be thrilled to have the chance to learn from her at last!
The workshop will begin in January of 2008.
Visit Dayle Doroshow's Website
Blogs of Note
Stefania Morgante is a student at That Creative Place who lives in Sardinia, Italy. She is an energetic and inspirational participant in Marilyn Radzat's workshops. Her Blog is wonderful, featuring images of ther works in progress and lots of creative inspiration.
Visit Stef's Blog
It has been amazing to see the progress in Stef's sculpting in such a short time. She was focused on improving her skills and she took giant leaps in her ability over these past several months. She is truly an inspiration!
Classes
Marilyn Radzat'sSphinx class will be starting on November 3rd. This magical project has little doors that open up to hold a small treasure inside.
Bill Nelson, our newest instructor, will teach a workshop on sculpting the head beginning November 30th.
Christi Friesen: Here's Lookin' at You: Polymer Clay Forest and Bird Mirror Project on November 15th
Dottie Kuhl: Christmas Crow and other projects available on an anytime basis.
Lisa Gatz will be offering Mini Frog on a Gourd and a Woodburned Santa Ornament on November 30th.
Leah Comerford: Beading classes, Chip Carving, and Knotless Netting.
Thoughts on Artistic Inspiration
"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas."
Linus Pauling
Where to look for inspiration?
The places that you can go for inspiration are limitless. With so many artists publishing blogs and the incredible array of beautiful magazines, there are endless possibilities. I live in a smallish town and there are few places that I can go to view artwork. But I have found a well of inspiration on the Internet and through magazines.
Copyright
I feel that I need to mention copyright issues here. Be sure that you are not copying someone else's designs without their permission. Drawing inspiration works like this for me: I see something that I really like and I ask myself what it is that I like most about this particular piece. I write down or mentally note those things and then figure out a way to use that concept in a different piece of work. Maybe it's the materials that the artist used, the proportions, or even the colors. For more information on copyright, here is a link:
http://drawsketch.about.com/cs/resources/a/copyright.htm
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Links of Interest
Marilyn Radzat
Bill Nelson Studios
Dayle Doroshow
Beginners Polymer Clay Art Guild
The Gourdpatch
American Gourd Society
NIADA
Links to free painting projects:
Snowman Candlestick Pattern This pattern would work well with gourds!
All free projects at The Artist's Club Remember that you can adapt designs to whatever surface that you choose to work on.
About That Creative Place
That Creative Place began in October 2006 as Gourd College Online. It was started by Lisa Gatz in an effort to provide art classes to a wide audience of people. Many aren't able to travel and learn from some of the excellent teachers that we host. Students from all over the world benefit from the variety of instructors at That Creative Place.
Our goal is to continue expanding our selection of classes and media and to offer supplies and artist's works for sale at the website.
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