Last Friday and Saturday I had the great pleasure of teaching a gourd art class to twenty people total at the Hampton’s Greenhouse and Nursery. It was also the opening of the Hampton’s Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze! If you live in the vicinity of Marshfield, MO, you really need to get on over there and have yourself a great time! The majority of the class was made up of Master Gardeners from Marshfield and I also had two very special young people (aged 8 and 5), we also had one lady from Portland, OR. Here are a few pictures of the wonderful students and the marvelous Gourd Art they created.
Great wood burning and isn’t this farmer just too cute? He even ended up with wire rimmed glasses and a straw hat.
Here we have a wonderfully wood burned and waxed deer and a jolly happy Santa who was also waxed. Next pic is a birdhouse being created and an apple gourd.
These two guys made a cut out gourd with fall leaves and a wood burned box.
Does this first gourd remind you of Rapunzel and Tangled? Giving a little spray on the beginning of a snowman and the young man in the last picture is applying dye to a warty gourd to make a bowl.
How do you like this beautiful peacock? Wonderful job! New wax technique.
Cleaning out the inside of a gourd which will becoming a Halloween mask. Some wood burning on what is to become a goose!
Working on some very cute penguins and helping Michael clean out a gourd with a ball and a drill!
See what I mean? You can be so creative in so many different ways with gourds! I had a very happy feeling after we headed home, because I felt that everyone was happy with what they had ultimately created. It was so easy doing this class because we got to use one of the Hampton’s greenhouses to spread out and create in. Saturday it rained and poured but there were still people who came out to the pumpkin patch and corn maze. Wow. I hope you enjoyed looking at these pictures. Wish you had been a the class cause you missed a fun and creative time!
Barbara
2 comments:
oh fun!!!! I once had a student whose mom painted gourds. She did lots of Santas, but he wanted her to paint a Phil Fulmer (he used to be the Un. of TN football coach). We are big UT fans. I thought it was great!
It looks like great fun! I wish you were closer!
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