Student Showcase: six week metal embossing course – week five
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We had a lot of fun in our community art and craft group this week, tearing and cutting and sticking paper in order to create these vase of flowers greetings cards. I love how everyone took my initial idea and then interpreted it in their own way to create their cards. A fun and relaxing…
Today was week 3 of a six week lino printing course for beginners for a community wellbeing project in Durham. This week I gave everyone my sketch of a tree, and we worked on carving out our backgrounds and paying attention to the direction in which the backgrounds were carved out. As you can see…
I had a one-to-one session with a lovely lady today who had been on a previous metal embossing workshop of mine. This time we were making a key hanger. She has seen my ivy themed Celtic knotwork before and had an idea of wrapping this style of knotwork around a heart. We worked on her…
After a great session creating metal embossed Christmas tree decorations at Gleaston Village Hall a couple of weeks ago (see that blog post here), I was asked back to show everyone how to create lino printed Christmas cards using the chine colle collage method. It was a fabulous afternoon and as you can see, everyone…
This week in my community art workshop we created a star shaped desk calendar, and I thought I would show you the beautiful calendar that Emma created. The decorated pages of the calendar were created with a monoprinting method. I showed everyone a few different techniques and everyone got stuck in and had fun playing!…
It was great to be back at Woodland Village Hall on Friday afternoon to teach a metal embossed Christmas ornament workshop as part of Highlights Rural Touring. Five of the participants had been on my metal embossed coasters workshop earlier in the year, so it was lovely to see them again. Fabulous ornaments and a…