Part three of my free five part course on Simple Flower Drawing, is up now. This course guides you step-by-step through drawing five different flowers. This course is suitable for beginners, as I take you step-by-step through the drawings.This week we’ll draw a simple daffodil motif.You can get started right now, just pop over to my simple flower…
If you fancy getting creative, and don’t know where to start, then why not try downloading and colouring in one of my free colouring pages? They are all created from my hand drawn designs. Some of them come with three images on the page, where you can cut out and frame the larger image, and…
Part two of my free five part course on Simple Flower Drawing, is up now. This course guides you step-by-step through drawing five different flowers. This course is suitable for beginners, as I take you step-by-step through the drawings.This week we’ll draw a simple crocus motif.You can get started right now, just pop over to my simple flower…
This year I aim to bring out a monthly video blog to round up what I’ve been up to in the studio. I do need to remember to document my work in video form though, rather than photographs, but I’m sure I’ll get used to it in the end! For now, here’s my ten minute…
We’ve long needed a key holder in our hallway, so with the new year I decided it was time to create one! As I’ve been working a lot with my Celtic knotwork and metal embossing recently, I thought it would be good to combine the two again and create a metal embossed key holder. This…
Last week I finished a metal embossed keepsake box project, and now that it has been received by the intended recipient, I can show it to you. I used a balsa wood box for the base, which I painted in chalk paint, mixed with a little acrylic paint to get the shade I wanted. The…
Are you looking for a creative outlet to help you relax and unwind?Starting today I have a free five part course on Simple Flower Drawing, guiding you step-by-step through drawing five different flowers. This course is suitable for beginners, as I take you step-by-step through the drawings.I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of the snowdrops…
Last October I taught Celtic knotwork to two groups of calligraphers, who attend weekly workshops hosted by Angela Reed of Creative Calligraphy. Angela’s groups are currently exhibiting at the Customs House, South Shields, in an exhibition called ‘Inspired by Lindisfarne’, where they have combined calligraphy, Celtic knotwork and book making to put together a wonderful…
Shown above are the two beautiful ‘junk journals’ made by the lovely ladies on my workshop this morning. We used keepsakes, scrap paper, wrapping paper, cardboard packaging and more to make a hand bound journal. These journals can now be used as memory books and more keepsakes can be added. On the workshop we were…
It was sad to finish this six week lino printing course this afternoon, as I’ve really enjoyed teaching all the participants at a wellbeing centre in Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert. Today we had fun lino printing on fabric, which uses different printing inks and also I like to use a different method of inking…
When you need a new house number and you can emboss metal… well, you have to make a metal embossed house number! I made our new house number out of copper. As we are both Celtic artists, I chose one of my Celtic knotwork designs for the border to represent ourselves. You can see from…
A few months ago I bought this fabulous ‘Waves’ bargello kit by the Bargello Sisters and Appletons Wool. I bought the kit from Bargello-A-GoGo who I can thoroughly recommend (no affiliation, just very pleased with the excellent service!). I absolutely love the colour combination and really enjoyed the relaxing process of slowing down and stitching…
