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Author
Publisher
Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Take your calligraphy to the next level in this creative lettering class. Maybelle Imasa-Stukuls covers techniques for writing with calligraphy on unconventional surfaces, like wood and chalkboard, using acrylic paint, gouache and chalk. You'll also learn how to mix custom colors with gouache, allowing you to work with hues other than black and white. If you're brand new to calligraphy (or just want a refresher), be sure to take Maybelle's Calligraphy...
Publisher
Darya Zhuk
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.." ― Anna Akhmatova..Fate granted Anna Akhmatova immense poetic talent, beauty, fame and a brilliant generation. Then came the executions of her loved ones, hunger, wars, revolutions, Soviet terror, isolation, betrayal. Yet Akhmatova emerges victorious, armed with mere words of poetry that-too dangerous to commit to paper-had to be memorized to be preserved..."Each of our lives...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt offers a fascinating exploration of the soul food tradition, its relevance to black cultural identity, and its continuing popularity despite the known dangers of high-fat, high-calorie diets. Inspired by his father's lifelong love affair with soul food even in the face of a life-threatening health crisis, Hurt discovers that the relationship between African-Americans and dishes like ribs, grits, and fried chicken...
144) Modern Calligraphy
Author
Publisher
Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Learn the art of calligraphy from a modern master-Maybelle Imasa-Stukuls. This four-part course is perfect for beginners, including ample warm up exercises that will help you understand how to hold the pen and control the flow of ink onto the page. From there, you'll learn how to form upper and lowercase letters in a modern style, and how to join them to create beautiful words and phrases. By the end of this course, you will be ready to apply calligraphy...
Author
Publisher
Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This pillow is a great primer for anyone wanting to learn how to embroider onto knit surfaces. The knitting is simple - Kristin shows you a knit cast on and how to create a stockinette base with a garter stitch border. Next she'll show you how to embroider the artwork onto the pillow with a spider web stitch, a chain stitch, the lazy daisy stitch and French knots. Once you have these stitches in your arsenal, you'll be able to come up with your own...
Author
Publisher
Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Steeking can be downright terrifying, because it requires taking a pair of scissors to your precious knitting. But once you watch this workshop with Kristin, you'll wonder what you were scared of. Steeking makes fancy colorwork patterns much easier to knit, because you can knit in the round and then open your work up to lay flat. Kristin shows step by step how to knit in the round, reinforce your steeks, cut them and then add mitered corners to create...
147) Fair Isle Knit Hat
Author
Publisher
Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Kristin teaches Fair Isle -- a traditional color work technique where two colors are knit in one row to create a geometric pattern. Although it looks complicated, it's actually very easy to follow Kristin's step by ste instruction and the chart to make this colorful hat. You'll learn how to do an elastic cast on, knit a garter stitch band in rows, and join the knitting to work the hat in rounds. A chart is used to build the colorwork pattern, decreases...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Flowers and the Wide Sea is the story of one of Australia's oldest immigrant communities - the Chinese. Chinese Australians tell of their ancestors and of themselves. Archival film and photographs rarely seen before show life as it is and was in China, Hong Kong and Australia over a period spanning 150 years. The first of this two part series, The Sojourners, traces the first wave of Chinese migrants, who in the 19th century, were driven by famine,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial instability and unemployment. There are personal costs too. For the majority of people on the planet, life is becoming increasingly stressful. We have less time for friends and family and we face mounting pressures...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
World renowned scientist, Dr. Jeremy Jackson, tells Sanjayan the oceans are in trouble, that a rise of slime is coming. But Sanjayan goes in search of a very different future. He travels to one of the remotest reefs on earth. The sheer number of sharks in this place doesn't make any sense - the mass of predators is greater than prey. It seems like a paradox. But when you understand it, you see how our oceans can be more productive than we could ever...
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