Learn to be a Better Gourd Artist
A web site to help you learn about gourd art, buy the right products and learn to sell art gourds.
Gourd Art Talk is an information site with our focus on an instructional Blog created for those wanting to be better gourd artists.
Each year, I offer you about 24 tutorial posts with video, pictures and tips on the product product or a gourd process. These are found on the Blog page.
At another time, I would be offering you this as a 200-page book. In this form, you can read the information when you need it. Check out the Blog page to see how it works.
Sharing What you Know
The posts on the Blog page is my lead conversation to a discussion. You can comment at the post’s end, and I will try to respond. A better way for you to talk with me and other artists is to join my Gourd Art Talk Facebook Group. About 2000 gourd artists, many beginners, visit our group each month.
I alert my readers to the new post and ask that they read it and gather their own tips and gourd pictures related to the topic.
The following week, I will post a discussion question about our topic. You may also post your questions about the topic to the group and show us any of your gourd work that pertains to our discussion.
What happens is magic!
Most of our readers are “newbies” to the gourd world. Still, we also have some very experienced artists who truly enjoy solving gourd art problems and offering tips. Remember that we also have many gourd growers who can offer advice.
You are also encouraged to share work you are currently working on in pictures or short videos on this Facebook group page. You will soon discover this group is very inspiring and helpful! We do not sell items here, and I monitor the site closely to stay on our topic of gourds. Check out the Blog page and start finding the information you will need.
This year’s posts are available free for one year. Then they will be moved to the archive. You can gain access to the entire archive for one year with a subscription of $20.
The website is growing and so are the costs. Your $20 will help me keep our site secure as our readership expands from our current 4,000 hits a day from all over the world.
To find out more, go to the navagation bar above and select Post Archive Membership Offer and learn how to get access to more than 100 articles about creating gourd art.
Let me offer you my expertise
As a master gourd artist, I have taught wood burning and tangling on gourds at gourd festivals nationwide. But now I can share my knowledge about gourds and all the aesthetic and design things I learned when I got my Master’s Degree in Art Education.
If you know what a gallery-quality gourd should look like, you can learn to create one. Let me be your guide if you are new to the art form, and if you have earned ribbons for your work, I hope you will join me in offering advice to others.
Are you selling gourd tutorials or online classes or festival classes?
With many more opportunities on the Internet for gourd artists and instructors, I am offering you space on the blog page for a small ad. This page is getting 4000 hits a month and is growing. We have over 200 visitors from other countries.
With a clickable ad link, viewers can go to your site and sign up for a class or buy your gourds or your tutorials to help learn about gourd art.
I will not allow these kinds of posts on our Facebook Group page, Gourd Art Talk, because I feel we don’t want it to become a selling site. On the other hand, I do want to share gourd information with my visitors and allow you to tell others about your gourd expertise and buying opportunities.
This ad space will help you get the information out to more gourd people. You can purchase one in the store .
Store/Library
Store/Library
Check out The Store/Library page!
Here, you will find my books and a few supplies I always offer my students when I teach. You can also purchase downloads of my more detailed post for reference.
If you want to let our members know about your gourd products, buy your ad space here and I will put it on our blog page.
Gorgeous Gourd Jewelry
Need a unique gift for a special lady?
Buy her a beautiful gourd necklace.
My gourd work can be found at my online store.
Check out my work at Gourgeous Gourd Jewelry
Find a fabulous statement piece that will impress! If she is looking for a gift and can’t decide which one she will like, buy her a gift card!
Newest Post
Our Facebook Group recently had a “chat discussion” that ended up with questions about using egg shells as a texture on a gourd. Here is a post about the process and a great video for a demonstration.
Here are the pins for most recent posts.
Help Me Keep This Site Growing!
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To share your gourds and ideas with others who visit this site often, join my Facebook Group Page.
Join more than 3000 others here to learn to be a better gourd artist where topical discussions help us learn from each other.