Skillshare Courses

Easy Gardening With Raised Beds

72 ratings at Skillshare

Build a raised bed garden for under $10 using hand tools: measure and cut lumber, assemble base and levels, cap it, then place soil, plant, and water.

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• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Toplining 101: Melody & Lyrics in Songwriting

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Learn what toplining is and craft memorable melodies and lyrics, working through melody building blocks, melody structure, lyric concept, and creative blocks.

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• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Branding Inspiration - Colors, Mood Boards and Logos

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Explore how mood boards and color palettes can inspire a cohesive logo and strengthen a brand’s visual identity.

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• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

How to Paint Sunflowers Using Acrylic Paints

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Paint a realistic sunflower step by step in acrylics: pick supplies and brushes, practice simple brushstrokes, and build dimension with values and three layers.

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• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Loosen Up and Play: How to Create an Abstract Floral Watercolor Painting

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Paint a loose abstract floral in watercolor: layer background colors and patterns, draw a composition, do negative painting with white gouache, and seal an Aquabord panel.

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• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Event Planning: Where to Start

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Start an event or wedding on the right foot by booking the big-ticket items: a basic budget, date and venue, catering, audio visual, and rentals.

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• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

How to Get Sponsors for Your Blog

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Learn to monetize a blog through sponsorships: prepare the one tool you need, find and approach sponsors, price different sponsorship formats, and keep relationships going.

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• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Bookbinding: Make a Japanese-stitch album!

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Learn three simple Japanese binding stitches and assemble a stitched album from loose paper sheets.

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• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

The One-Palette Illustrator: Discover How Color Works in Your Art

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Build your own limited colour palettes for illustration: colour theory, digital versus print colour, palette-building exercises, and two final pieces sketched in Procreate and finished in Photoshop.

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• 3 hours 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Presentations: Slide Deck Design for Non-Designers

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Design slide decks without a design background: apply four visual styles, typography, photography and color basics, and clearer charts and diagrams.

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• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Coffee Break Art: Drawing a Doodle

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Break down black-and-white doodling into simple shapes, lines, spirals, grids, and freeform patterns to create a finished art doodle.

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• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Watercolor Landscapes for Beginners: How to Paint What You See

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Turn a landscape reference photo into a watercolor painting: wet-on-wet water control, color value for distance, palette mixing, and background, midground and foreground layers.

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• 2 hours 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

The Power of Line. Intro to Line Drawing in Procreate

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Learn expressive line drawing from the ground up: line weight, rhythm, and flow exercises that build into a finished line portrait of your favorite cup.

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• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

How to run your day, to win your day - Increase Your Focus, Get Stuff Done.

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A productive day happens by design, not by accident: simplify your to-do list, improve mornings, manage energy, resist the urgent, and stop procrastinating.

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• 1 hour 13 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

Motion Graphics with Kurzgesagt – Part 3

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Animate characters with Rubberhose: rig limbs, build key poses, link cross-compositions, fake 3D depth, and refine timing, exaggeration, and overlapping action.

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• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available