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Creating with Creative Bug at the Greenburgh Library

  Creating & Exploring Art Projects  

Creative Bug has more than 1,000 award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists.  Note: You must have a Greenburgh Public Library card to access.

Now that you are hooked on using this dynamic database of art tutorial videos, let me try and answer a few more questions you might still have about Creative Bug.  I will also share a few tips of my own and other exciting resource links to further your art exploration.

• What Is CBTV?

Creative Bug Television (CBTV), features exclusive documentaries of many of the instructors.  You get to see "up close" the art they create and hear why they became an artist.  Discover Artist, Kaffe Fassett, how he stumbled happily into a new artistic avenue with textiles after successfully selling paintings for many years. You can view Kaffe's gallery and randomly select from any of his instructional videos.  To see his CBTV introduction video click his image to the right.  

Follow Creative Bug's Facebook page for live videos, fun time lapse sequences of art in the making or share your favorite CBTV features to your own post.  Not only does Creative Bug showcase artist's profiles and inspirational classes but they offer exposés on other art education organizations like San Francisco based Creativity Explored : Where Art Changes Lives; a non-profit studio space for developmentally challenged adults.   

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• What does my Gallery and Inspiration Feed look like?  

​After watching a video, taking a course or working on your own on-going projects, you can upload an image of your own work to share with the Creative Bug community or keep in your personal gallery.  I shared a drawing of my dog's right eye after being inspired by watching David Tenorio's video on drawing foundations of the head.  I think I'll watch how to draw animals next! To share your art creations simply add them to:  Creativebug Inspiration Feed

• Watch List and Referrals, what are these accounts used for?

​All of your videos are listed in what you have viewed including the total amount of time for each.  After completing a "course" you earn "credit" points just like a college class.  The more you earn credits and the more you share, you earn a free class with each friend referral.  Luckily, with your Greenburgh account, there is no need to gain points.  Simply enjoy!

• Blogs of Interest

​There is a direct link to Creative Bug's Blog which you might enjoy checking in on from time to time.  You can resource this blog directly or through your Greenburgh Library sponsored account to Creative Bug using your library card.  While there are thousands of art blogs to follow on the internet, my advice is to stick to a select few at a time until you feel you have gained enough information or need to be challenged by another voice.  Find an artist you admire, even a particular artistic style and follow their work.  It's just like falling in love with a particular author's work or genera of writing. 

There are subscription online art newsletters and magazines to help you follow the latest trends.  Keep informed about world art news, gallery sales and museum exhibitions found in Art Daily.  Deeper articles about contemporary fine artists check out: Artists On Art Magazine, an online zine expressing "creativity unleashed."  My go-to art magazine for how-to tips, artist profiles, art supplies and art happenings is: Artist's Magazine.  Affiliated with this magazine is an amazing variety of print and online resources at Artist's Newtork.  You can always borrow issues of Artists Magazine from the Library.  Just remember not to miss out on reading or downloading specialty issues explicitly on topics from pléin air, southwestern art, to inspirational features on historic art periods and famous artists.  

• Class Collections  

​Take a look at groups of projects done by several classes on a shared topic, such as Valentine's Day or specific DYI projects for Halloween, Wallpapering, Card Making.  Just another way to get inspired, see what others have done or just check another option to browse Creative Bug's vast art and craft resources.  Learn, explore and share your art projects beyond your own studio!