Student Showcase: Found Poetry Play Session
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This morning was my final session with a local community support group, where we put together everything we’d learned over the past two weeks to make accordion note books. The covers were decorated with acrylic paints, then everyone carved a simple lino carved stamp to add extra details to the covers. Some decided to add…
I had an enjoyable afternoon at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert on Tuesday, teaching a lovely group how to make junk journals. All of these fabulous journals are made out of things that would normally find their way into the recycling – discarded print outs, odd bits of decorative paper and wrapping paper and scraps…
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…
I had a fabulous day with a craft group up in Birtley, Northumberland, yesterday, showing everyone how to make a Japanese stab bound sketchbook with a metal embossed cover. In the morning I showed everyone how to make the cover, taking everyone through the tools and materials first, creating a sample piece, and then moving…
My six week metal embossing course being held in conjunction with Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert is going really well. Everyone has been working on larger projects during these few weeks, and two of them were finished today. On the left is a wonderfully intricate bookmark, and on the right a very elegant house number….
What an incredible array of copper house numbers were made on my workshop at Land of Oak and Iron Heritage Centre yesterday! As you can see from the photos above, everyone really let their creativity shine, and made house numbers that really show off their individuality. The majority of attendees were absolute beginners to metal…