Test Drive CraftArtEdu
I know I put a note out in the last newsletter but I want to catch others here who may not know about CraftArtEdu.com. The idea is that instead of you having to pay for expensive classes with artists who can only come to your area once in a blue moon, you can take great, in-depth classes at a fraction of the cost and view it on your time and at your own pace.
The classes are basically videos but far more than just something you might find on YouTube. They can be quite lengthy as the instructors lead you through every step in detail. You can post questions, browse by chapter, click through from the video page directly to suppliers for items you might need, and you have unlimited access to all this and it never expires.
There are a handful of free classes to get a taste of how they work. You can check those out on the website here.
I have never purchased one of these classes, but from the free ones I have seen, these are not “videos” in the sense that they are not showing someone actually doing something. It is a video of a slide or powerpoint presentation with audio and marking on the individual frame. The audio is nice but you can just as easliy look at pictures and read descriptions. I would hope that at some point in the future, the slide show actually becomes a real video. This is one step above a magazine article but not to the level of a video. I am disappointed in these presintations.