Student Showcase: Found Poetry Play Session
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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…
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…
Two lovely greetings cards made by the students on my Celtic knot flow workshop yesterday. I taught a more flowing and less technical technique of creating interlaced knotwork, which included chains, triquetras and unicursal curves. I also taught a traditional space filling technique used in medieval manuscripts in order to create the backgrounds. Both are…
Two beautiful bags made on yesterday’s private lino printing on fabric workshop. I love how the friends both took different approaches to their bag designs and that the ideas evolved as they carved the lino and printed up test pieces. Beautiful work!
Yesterday I had a great afternoon as part of Highlights Rural Touring Scheme when I visited Crosby Ravensworth Village Hall and taught an enthusiastic group how to create metal embossed coasters. Everyone took to learning the techniques really well, and they all made beautiful coasters, with a bit of experimentation going on too, which I always love to see!…
I had a wonderful afternoon showing a lovely lady how to make a copper house number plate. She was making it for a friend, who lives in a place with ‘olive’ in the name, hence the olive branch. In keeping with the olive theme, she aged the house number with green paint and added a…