Student Showcase: Found Poetry Play Session
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Two lovely greetings cards made by the students on my Celtic knot flow workshop yesterday. I taught a more flowing and less technical technique of creating interlaced knotwork, which included chains, triquetras and unicursal curves. I also taught a traditional space filling technique used in medieval manuscripts in order to create the backgrounds. Both are…
After an introduction to metal embossing, my students moved on to working with copper and working on their own designs. As you can see, they had lots of fun, and really went to town and created some fantastic pieces! They worked on these over several sessions. I know some are destined for going up in…
On Saturday I had a fantastic day at Allendale Village Hall, teaching a lovely group chine collé lino printing, as part of Highlights Rural Touring Scheme. We had a lovely selection of floral lino prints created, and everyone took really well to carving out the lino and then to printing with collage. As usual, the time…
I had a wonderful afternoon showing a lovely lady how to make a copper house number plate. She was making it for a friend, who lives in a place with ‘olive’ in the name, hence the olive branch. In keeping with the olive theme, she aged the house number with green paint and added a…
I had a great afternoon with two lovely ladies showing them how to make these bargello embroidered Christmas tree ornaments. They also received the materials to make another ornament at home. At the beginning of the class we started a little bargello Christmas tree motif, just to get used to creating the stitches, which they…
I had another great morning at Arnside Educational Institute showing people how to make these metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments as part of Highlights Rural Touring. Everyone took to the craft really well and some even designed their own ornaments, which I am always over the moon about! Have a scroll through the photos above and…