On Tuesday I hosted a group of friends who came to celebrate a birthday by creating a metal embossed hanger. I had a great afternoon with this lovely group, and they all took to embossing really well, as you can see from the photos, and were happy to experiment with the embossing and created some fabulous textures. Absolutely beautiful work, all of you!
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!…
Here are the three fabulous copper house numbers that were made on my metal embossed house number workshop today. I had a great afternoon teaching three lovely people how to emboss metal, and they all created amazing pieces. They were all complete beginners to metal embossing before the workshop. As you can see they all…
Some ‘in action’ shots of some of the fantastic mandalas that were drawn on my workshops for Angela Reed of Creative Calligraphy yesterday and today. I always enjoy delivering workshops for Angela’s groups and it was lovely to be back and see everyone again. I was at South Shields both yesterday and today to deliver this…
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…
Over the past four Fridays, I’ve had a fantastic time with a community group in Stanley, showing everyone how to make a hand bound journal. We learned a lot of different skills over the four weeks: Week 1: carving a design out of soft lino, which was then printed on to fabric to create the…
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?
