Student Showcase: six week metal embossing course – week five
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I had a great afternoon with two lovely ladies who came on my copper embossed house number workshop today. Neither had done metal embossing before, but just look at these beautiful house numbers that they made! Aren’t they wonderful? We went through the process from the beginning, going through all the tools and materials and…
This week’s workshop was a really fun one on lino printing on fabric. The students had already completed my lino printing for beginners workshop, so we got straight on to carving out our designs and then learned techniques for printing on fabric rather than paper. Everyone had different styles and some experimented with different designs…
I had another great afternoon with the lovely folks at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert. This week I showed everyone how to make my metal embossed Christmas tree ornament. As you can see from the pictures, lots of beautiful ornaments were made, with some people putting their own take on the designs, which I love…
This afternoon saw week 2 of my six week Celtic knot drawing course at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert, and wow!, everyone did fantastically well! We moved on from the basic knot I taught in week one on to how to make the knot more intricate. Once they had learned the technique everyone was free…
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…
Tearing and cutting and gluing pieces of paper is so therapeutic, and my students certainly found this to be so in yesterday’s Collaged Landscapes workshops. I just love the variety of styles and themes that everyone chose, and the wonderful way in which they executed their ideas. Wonderful work, everyone! If you would like to…