Student Showcase: six week lino printing course for beginners – weeks 4 and 5
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Student Showcase: six week lino printing course for beginners – weeks 4 and 5

I can’t believe that we’re already 5 weeks into a six week lino printing course at a community centre in Durham. The weeks have just flown by! For the past two weeks, participants have been working on their own designs. Some drew designs themselves, some used my designs, some used clip art. Participants have also…

Student Showcase: six week lino printing course for beginners – week 3
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Student Showcase: six week lino printing course for beginners – week 3

Today was week 3 of a six week lino printing course for beginners for a community wellbeing project in Durham. This week I gave everyone my sketch of a tree, and we worked on carving out our backgrounds and paying attention to the direction in which the backgrounds were carved out. As you can see…

Student Showcase: Metal embossing – beginners
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Student Showcase: Metal embossing – beginners

This week I taught a metal embossing class for beginners. I showed everyone the basic techniques for creating a small metal embossed plaque, and everyone chose a design to work with and embellished it with their own little details. There was one more plaque created, but somehow I seem to have missed that one! Metal…

Student Showcase: six week lino printing course for beginners – week 2
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Student Showcase: six week lino printing course for beginners – week 2

Today was week 2 of a six week lino printing course for beginners for a community wellbeing project that I am teaching in Durham. Last week we just used a U-blade to create our carvings. This week, we moved on to using both a U-blade and a V-blade to create finer detail. I also showed…

Student Showcase: Celtic Knotwork for Beginners
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Student Showcase: Celtic Knotwork for Beginners

I was thrilled when the lovely Angela Reed of Creative Calligraphy invited me to teach her regular calligraphy groups how to draw simple Celtic knots as part of their Inspired by Lindisfarne project. I showed the groups how a basic Celtic knot was formed, and they practiced simple 2×3 and 3×3 knots, before moving on…

Student Showcase: Six week lino printing course for beginners – week 1
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Student Showcase: Six week lino printing course for beginners – week 1

This week I started teaching a six week lino printing course for beginners for a community wellbeing project in Durham. We started off by learning all about the tools and materials that we use, and then worked on carving a simple floral lino print. We then printed this up, again, I gave plenty of hints…

Student Showcase: Abstract acrylic painted, hand bound books
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Student Showcase: Abstract acrylic painted, hand bound books

These hand bound books were created over two workshop sessions. The first session was spent creating abstract acrylic paintings, using a wonderful and slightly addictive technique that plays to the properties of acrylic paint, and involved creating many layers. In the bottom row, middle photo, you’ll see some of the papers I have created with…