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Two Jewelry Webinars This Month!

I’m very excited to announce that I have TWO webinars coming up next week on the topic of realistic jewelry, one of my favorite things to paint!! Each one will cover different topics and different jewelry pieces. The first one on Monday will be available free through FacePaint.com, but you do have to register to be a part of it! The second webinar on Thursday is for the FAM club for the Facade Academy in the UK! In order to watch this one, you must be a registered member of the FAM club! Read below for more info and links to register for both!

Monday, September 16 – Facepaint.com Live Webinar

On Monday, September 16, 2024 at 5:30 PM EST Gretchen will be doing a live webinar via Zoom and/or Facebook Live! This is a free webinar, but you do need to sign up to get the link! Click here to register for this free webinar and interact with us live! In THIS webinar for FacePaint.com viewers, Gretchen will walk you step by step through some realistic gemstones, and turn them into jewelry that pops right off the skin! While painting a realistic gemstone, Gretchen will demonstrate realistic lighting and shadow placement, and as she turns the gemstone into a piece of jewelry, she will help you to identify some of the most common mistakes people make when painting realistic jewelry. Gretchen will walk you through the gem itself, a setting, and a chain to turn it into a piece of jewelry, and how to create a realistic drop shadow underneath. Time permitting, Gretchen will also create a decolletage design while demonstrating some tools and tricks that help to paint gems, lace and beads/pearls more quickly!

Thursday, Sept 19 – FAM Club for Facade Academy Webinar

On Thursday, September 19th, 2024 Gretchen will be a guest instructor for the FAM Club by Facade Academy, based in the UK! This webinar will be live via Zoom at 8:00 PM UK time (2:00 PM CDT). In order to participate in this webinar, you must be a subscribing member of the FAM Club! Click here to find out more about the FAM club and how to join! In this special webinar tailored for FAM Club members, Gretchen will be applying the lighting and shadow principles that FAM club members have already been learning in September to jewelry designs. She will be combining these principles with the tools that face painters have on hand to create realistic designs that can be done quickly on-the-job, including a wrist/cuff design that incorporates a gem, a decolletage design that includes stones and different bead shapes, and time permitting, a forehead/tiara design that uses other speed enhancing tricks and tools!

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Tuesday Tips @ 10: Labeling your Paints

Happy Tuesday!!! I took a little hiatus from our Tuesday Tips at Ten there over the holidays…partly because of holiday busy-ness of gigs, hosting family & my son’s 16th birthday & driver’s exam, partly because I ran out of tips (ha!), and partly because our sweet, goofy Great Dane “Wahoo” passed away unexpectedly at just 5 years old, sucking away some of my Christmas spirit and motivation! BUT, I’m happy to say we have adopted a new fur baby (Teddy the Sheepadoodle) just in time for Christmas, all the holiday activities have died down, and I have a couple more tips in the hopper! SO, this week I bring you a tip for labeling your paints! Who doesn’t want to get their kit more organized in the new year?! Next week I’ll continue with another good tip for organizing your paints in your kit, but for now, here’s how I’ve labeled my paints in the past and currently!

Also, in case you missed it, since I’m taking a break from Wet Paint Magazine, I’ve brought back my free monthly e-newsletters! This month’s newsletter on the topic of self confidence as an artist has already gone out, but you can subscribe to future issues or download past issues here!

Here are some Amazon (affiliate) links related to this video…

Dymo label maker: https://amzn.to/3TKYm82

Label refills: https://amzn.to/3Sbedf1

Label maker storage cases: https://amzn.to/41Oapn4

White paint pen to label black cake containers: https://amzn.to/3tM7BtX