The video above will take you through a very quick sneak peek of my next colouring book. This book has been three years in the making, and contains much of my hand drawn Celtic knotwork that I have created over those years. The book will be released on 27 May 2022, but if you would…
My history with lino printing goes back to the early 1990s, when I bought a ‘Make your own rubber stamp’ kit at Make Your Mark in York. Back then I used to make small lino cuts to decorate my envelopes with (I was a huge letter writer and mail artist back then), but I soon…
Tearing and cutting and gluing pieces of paper is so therapeutic, and my students certainly found this to be so in yesterday’s Collaged Landscapes workshops. I just love the variety of styles and themes that everyone chose, and the wonderful way in which they executed their ideas. Wonderful work, everyone! If you would like to…
Not just screen printed bags, although that was the main focus of this workshop! We also painted and added a few lino printed motifs to our bags too. Lots of fun was had, with plenty of ‘ooohs’ and ‘ahhhhs’ as screens were lifted off and textile paints blended together in unexpected, yet attractive ways. Sun…
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…
It’s the final week of my free ‘how to draw simple flowers’ series, and the latest tutorial is now up, this one showing you how to draw a simple poinsettia. Suitable for beginners, I take you step-by-step through the process, and the beauty of an online tutorial is you can always press the pause button if you…
This week’s workshop was a really fun one on lino printing on fabric. The students had already completed my lino printing for beginners workshop, so we got straight on to carving out our designs and then learned techniques for printing on fabric rather than paper. Everyone had different styles and some experimented with different designs…
It’s week four of my free ‘how to draw simple flowers’ series, and the latest tutorial is now up, this one showing you how to draw simple tulips. Suitable for beginners, I take you step-by-step through the process, and the beauty of an online tutorial is you can always press the pause button if you need to!…
The daffodils haven’t quite come out in my garden yet, although the shoots are starting to appear. However, that doesn’t stop us drawing them, and this week’s free tutorial is on how to do just that. It’s week three of my free ‘how to draw simple flowers’ series, and the latest tutorial is now up, this one…
In this week’s workshop I showed everyone how to take a blank, balsa wood box, and turn it in to a faux marquetry decorated box. I call it ‘faux’ marquetry, as the method is very different to traditional marquetry techniques, but I still think it produces a lovely effect. It was definitely a relaxing and…