Student Showcase: six week metal embossing course – week five
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This week I started teaching a six week lino printing course for beginners for a community wellbeing project in Durham. We started off by learning all about the tools and materials that we use, and then worked on carving a simple floral lino print. We then printed this up, again, I gave plenty of hints…
Sunday saw me at Amble Parish Hall teaching metal embossing to a lovely group, as part of Highlights Rural Touring Scheme. Everyone took well to learning the techniques, with lots of experimentation going on, as well as people working on their own designs, which I always love! They all made beautiful coasters, scroll through the carousel above…
These hand bound books were created over two workshop sessions. The first session was spent creating abstract acrylic paintings, using a wonderful and slightly addictive technique that plays to the properties of acrylic paint, and involved creating many layers. In the bottom row, middle photo, you’ll see some of the papers I have created with…
I’ve had a lovely afternoon teaching a private party how to create my metal embossed Christmas tree baubles. One lady has been on one of my metal embossing workshops before, but the rest were all complete beginners, and as you can see, they all did brilliantly! Thanks so much to the host for welcoming me…
Yesterday saw the last of my Christmas workshops as part of Highlights Rural Touring at the beautiful Blanchland Abbey. Lots more Christmas trees will be looking festive adorned with their new hand made metal embossed ornaments this year. Beautiful work, everyone! Thanks so much to Susan at Blanchland Abbey for looking after us all so…
This year there are an amazing ten workshops to choose from! I have workshops on Christmas card making, Christmas tree decoration making and Christmas gift making – for those people who are hard to buy for! You’ll find details of all of the different workshops over on my Christmas workshops page, and you can book…