Student Showcase: six week metal embossing course – week five
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Over the past couple of years I’ve been really lucky to work with Breathing Space in a fabulous health and wellbeing community project in Witton Gilbert. I always love teaching at Breathing Space, it is such a beautiful and relaxed venue and everyone is always so enthusiastic and friendly. Coming up over the summer I…
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…
With the Lindisfarne Gospels coming to the Laing Art Gallery this autumn, interest has been growing in the art of creating Celtic knots. One of my two main art focuses is drawing Celtic knotwork, and I teach this skill to others too. In the class I’ll teach you how to draw a basic Celtic knot….
Recently I’ve really been enjoying making these metal embossed sketchbooks. Those with my Celtic designs on I made as sample pieces for my workshop with Birtley craft group, you can see all their amazing sketchbooks here. I recently spent a fantastic long weekend away with a group of amazing ladies, for each of whom I…
My six week metal embossing course being held in conjunction with Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert is going really well. Everyone has been working on larger projects during these few weeks, and two of them were finished today. On the left is a wonderfully intricate bookmark, and on the right a very elegant house number….
Back in November last year I finished my first metal embossed clock prototype, created in copper, which you can read about in this blog post. The clock shown here has been created in aluminium and has a few improvements on the first one. The photos above show the process from my initial drawing of the…