If you would like to try a really simple craft from the comfort of your own home this weekend, then I have just uploaded my star shaped calendar tutorial. It’s a free standing desk calendar, and can be decorated as you wish.
The video and all the downloads to go with it can be found here. If you have a go please let me know how you got on, and I’d love to see your creations!
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…
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…
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…
Last month I wrote about completing this three colour reduction lino print of a sycamore leaf, and mentioned that I had videoed the whole process (see the blog here). I’ve now had chance to edit the video, and the full tutorial is now posted below. This tutorial is suitable for those who have been carving…
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…
This week in my community art workshop we created a star shaped desk calendar, and I thought I would show you the beautiful calendar that Emma created. The decorated pages of the calendar were created with a monoprinting method. I showed everyone a few different techniques and everyone got stuck in and had fun playing!…
