Student showcase – floral chine collé lino printing – Soulby
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Student showcase – floral chine collé lino printing – Soulby

On Saturday I had a fantastic day at Soulby Village Hall, teaching a lovely group chine collé lino printing, as part of Highlights Rural Touring Scheme. The theme of the day was definitely tulips, although we did have a rose, a poppy and a wren being created too. Everyone took to the method so well, and…

Student showcase – metal embossed coasters – St Mary Park
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Student showcase – metal embossed coasters – St Mary Park

Yesterday I had a great afternoon as part of Highlights Rural Touring Scheme when I visited St Mary’s Village Hall in St Mary Park and taught a fabulous group how to create metal embossed coasters. Everyone took to learning the techniques really well, and they all made beautiful coasters, scroll through the carousel above to see what…

Student showcase: metal embossed coasters – Ellingham Village Hall
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Student showcase: metal embossed coasters – Ellingham Village Hall

On Tuesday as part of Highlights Rural Touring Scheme I visited Ellingham Village Hall and taught a fabulous group how to create metal embossed coasters. Everyone took well to learning the techniques, with lots of experimentation going on. They all made beautiful coasters, scroll through the carousel above to see what everyone got up to. Amazing…

Student showcase: Metal embossed coasters workshop – Amble
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Student showcase: Metal embossed coasters workshop – Amble

Sunday saw me at Amble Parish Hall teaching metal embossing to a lovely group, as part of Highlights Rural Touring Scheme. Everyone took well to learning the techniques, with lots of experimentation going on, as well as people working on their own designs, which I always love! They all made beautiful coasters, scroll through the carousel above…

Student showcase: Metal embossed coasters workshop – Woodland
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Student showcase: Metal embossed coasters workshop – Woodland

I had a lovely day at Woodland Village Hall on Saturday, teaching metal embossing to a great group, as part of Highlights Rural Touring Scheme. Everyone took well to learning the techniques and they all made beautiful coasters, with some even working on their own designs, which I always love to see! Scroll through the carousel above to…

Student showcase: experiments with drypoint printmaking
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Student showcase: experiments with drypoint printmaking

During the past two weeks in my community art group, we experimented with drypoint printmaking using a Sizzix machine as the printing press. A Sizzix machine is a piece of craft equipment mainly used for die-cutting cardboard shapes, or embossing designs on to cardstock. However, due to the pressure it can exert, it’s also great…

Student showcase: Metal embossed coaster workshop – Grizebeck
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Student showcase: Metal embossed coaster workshop – Grizebeck

I had a fabulous day at The Community Hall at Grizebeck on Saturday, teaching metal embossing to an enthusiastic group, as part of Highlights Rural Touring Scheme. Everyone really took to learning the techniques and they all made beautiful coasters, with some even working on their own designs, I love it when that happens! Scroll through the carousel…

Student showcase: metal embossed coasters – Wark
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Student showcase: metal embossed coasters – Wark

I had a great day at Wark Town Hall and Mechanics Institute on Tuesday, teaching metal embossing to an enthusiastic group, as part of Highlights Rural Touring Scheme. Everyone really embraced the techniques and they all made beautiful coasters, with some even working on their own designs, which I love! Scroll through the carousel above…

Student showcase: metal embossed coasters – Armathwaite
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Student showcase: metal embossed coasters – Armathwaite

Yesterday I had a fantastic day at Armathwaite Old School Hall as part of Highlights Rural Touring Scheme, teaching metal embossing to a lovely, enthusiastic group. This workshop is suitable for beginners to metal embossing, and I took everyone through transferring a design to the metal, to embossing techniques and then how to add an aging…

Student showcase: metal embossed hearts
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Student showcase: metal embossed hearts

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…

Student showcase: Floral chine collé lino prints – Arnside
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Student showcase: Floral chine collé lino prints – Arnside

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…

Student showcase: metal embossed house numbers
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Student showcase: metal embossed house numbers

I had a great afternoon with two lovely ladies who came on my copper embossed house number workshop today. Neither had done metal embossing before, but just look at these beautiful house numbers that they made! Aren’t they wonderful? We went through the process from the beginning, going through all the tools and materials and…