Student Showcase: Found Poetry Play Session
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I’ve had a fantastic day teaching chine collé lino printing to a lovely group at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert. I always love teaching at Breathing Space, it’s such an amazing place filled with the best people! These are just a small selection of the Christmas cards that were produced today. As you can see,…
What a great three weeks I’ve had lino printing with the community art group at The Lodge at Blackhill and Consett park! We have been working with one of my rose sketches, and from this, created reduction lino prints, gradient prints, two colour lino prints using using one block and masking, as well as plain…
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…
I’m showing off the work of another one of my ‘students’ today! There’s a bit of a story behind this one! I have been having a weekly Spanish / English language exchange chat with a lovely madrileño, Carlos, for the past 18 months. We’ve got to know each other well over that time, and he…
I spent a lovely afternoon today leading a crafting wellbeing session, teaching everyone how to make these crepe paper roses. The session was for a local school group, and was to help the staff unwind and learn something new. Aren’t their flowers gorgeous? If you would like to have a go at making these crepe…
A fabulous selection of metal embossed hearts were made on my workshop at Land of Oak and Iron Heritage Centre yesterday! I took everyone through the tools and materials first of all and then we created a test piece to get used to using everything. Next I took everyone through designing their own hearts and…