Student Showcase: six week metal embossing course, week six
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Today was week 2 of a six week lino printing course for beginners for a community wellbeing project that I am teaching in Durham. Last week we just used a U-blade to create our carvings. This week, we moved on to using both a U-blade and a V-blade to create finer detail. I also showed…
I had a really fun afternoon with my weekly community workshop, where we worked on these metal embossed hearts, which are based on tradition ‘corazones mexicanos’. As this was a two hour workshop, I drew out an initial template for everyone to work with, and showed everyone how to use this to create the basic…
Once again I’m over the moon to be working with Highlights Rural Touring for their autumn / winter season. I will be teaching two different workshops for Highlights Rural Touring – a metal embossed Christmas ornament and chine collé lino printed Christmas cards. I will be at: Gleaston, Cumbria, 5th October – metal embossed Christmas ornament…
These are just a small selection of the amazing chine collé lino printed Christmas cards that were made on my workshop today. Lots of creativity going on as my students carved out their lino printed designs and then combined them with collage to make lots of unique greetings cards. It was such a fun afternoon…
On Sunday I had a fantastic day at the Arnside Educational Institute teaching chine collé lino printing to a wonderfully enthusiastic group, as part of Highlights Rural Touring Scheme. Chine collé is a fun lino printing technique, combining collage with lino printing and produces some really spectacular results, even with simple lino printed motifs. This…
I made this copper embossed clock recently as a birthday present for my partner and I’m pleased to say it has gone down very well! Apparently it’s ‘the best birthday present ever’ 😄 The design is by my partner, it’s the monogram he uses on his artwork, and he will be using the clock in…