Student showcase: Lino printed chine colle Christmas cards at Great Whittington
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Student showcase: Lino printed chine colle Christmas cards at Great Whittington

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…

Student showcase: metal embossed Christmas ornaments at Soulby
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Student showcase: metal embossed Christmas ornaments at Soulby

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…

Student showcase: Christmas chine colle lino printing at Gleaston Village Hall
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Student showcase: Christmas chine colle lino printing at Gleaston Village Hall

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…

Student showcase: paint and stitch
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Student showcase: paint and stitch

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…

Student showcase: chine colle lino printed Christmas cards at Ellingham Village Hall
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Student showcase: chine colle lino printed Christmas cards at Ellingham Village Hall

I had a fantastic day at Ellingham Village Hall yesterday as part of Highlights Rural Touring showing an enthusiastic group how to create lino printed Christmas cards using collage. As you can see from the photos, everyone really took to the method and created some beautiful cards. Thank you so much to Eileen at Ellingham Village Hall for looking…

Studio blog: Inktober 2024 – week 1 round up
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Studio blog: Inktober 2024 – week 1 round up

I am currently taking part in the annual Inktober challenge, where participants are encouraged to create a sketch using ink every day during October. There are ‘official’ prompts given out by the organisers if you are stuck for ideas, but I have decided to go my own way and concentrate on what I would like…

Student showcase: Metal embossed Christmas ornaments at Gleaston Village Hall
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Student showcase: Metal embossed Christmas ornaments at Gleaston Village Hall

Shown above are 13 fabulous double sided Christmas ornaments that were made on the first of my Christmas workshops for Highlights Rural Touring! These were all made by a lovely group at Gleaston Village Hall in south Cumbria yesterday, and as you can see, everyone took so well to the process and made the ornaments…

Student showcase: messy mandalas with Creative Calligraphy
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Student showcase: messy mandalas with Creative Calligraphy

Some ‘in action’ shots of some of the fantastic mandalas that were drawn on my workshops for Angela Reed of Creative Calligraphy yesterday and today. I always enjoy delivering workshops for Angela’s groups and it was lovely to be back and see everyone again. I was at South Shields both yesterday and today to deliver this…

Student showcase: metal embossed Japanese stab bound sketchbook
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Student showcase: metal embossed Japanese stab bound sketchbook

Four fabulous metal embossed Japanese stab bound sketchbooks were made on my workshop in the studio yesterday. We started off creating a practice piece of metal embossing to get used to the tools and materials and how best to use them. Three students designed their own motifs and one decided to go with one of…