I had a fantastic evening with St Mary’s Belles WI at St Mary Park yesterday. We had a large group of over 20 and I showed them all how to make their own individual metal embossed heart decoration. There was lots of experimentation and playing going on and everyone made beautiful hearts as you can…
What a great morning I’ve had at Holyoake Community Centre in South Pelaw, showing everyone how to make metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments. Such an enthusiastic and friendly group, I had a great time with you all! With 14 people on the workshop, it got a bit busy, as you can imagine, and so unfortunately…
Thanks to everyone at Armathwaite Old School Hall for such a lovely morning teaching how to make metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments. There will be lots of special pieces adorning local Christmas trees this year! Above are photos of both sides of everyone’s ornaments and they all made beautiful pieces as you can see. Thanks…
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…
I had a lovely afternoon teaching how to make these metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments at Whittingham Memorial Institute yesterday as part of Highlights Rural Touring. Everyone really took to the craft and some even designed their own ornaments, which I love! As you can see, everyone will have a lovely new decoration to hang on…
Yesterday saw the end of the Inktober challenge (read more about my initial thoughts on the challenge here). I thoroughly enjoyed creating these 6cm square sketches of glimpses of each day. I will be reflecting a bit more on the challenge and what I learned from it over the next week or so, but for…
I had a really lovely morning at Great Whittington Village Hall on Sunday, teaching a small but very enthusiastic group the method of chine colle lino printing, which is lino printing with collage. This was as part of Highlights Rural Touring. As you can see from the photos, they all created fabulous Christmas cards and…
A Christmas tree full of amazing metal embossed ornaments were made on my workshop at Soulby Village Hall on Saturday as part of Highlights Rural Touring. It was such a lovely morning with an enthusiastic group! Everyone was a complete beginner to metal embossing and just look at the fabulous ornaments they made. Many decided to…
The month is flying by and week three of Inktober is already over! Above are my sketches of daily life for this past week. See my week one blog to read a bit more about the project.
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…
Over the last few weeks my community art group have been having fun with paint and stitch. Everyone started off by creating abstract pieces with acrylic paints, stencils and texture paste. Then everyone added stitching and a bit of collage to those backgrounds. These are just a sample of the fantastic pieces everyone created. I…
Week two of my Inktober project saw a lot of crafting tools and a couple of days out. See my week one blog to read a bit more about the project.
