Student Showcase: six week metal embossing course – week five
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I had a great one-to-one session in my workshop today, teaching the art of metal embossing, whilst make decorative coasters. We started off by going over the tools and materials and working on a piece of scrap aluminium to get a feel for how the metal and tools worked. Then we moved on to making…
I had a wonderful time with the Gateshead Art Diamonds, showing them some simple metal embossing techniques, and how to make these decorative coasters. After making a test piece to get used to the tools and materials, everyone worked on their coaster pieces, with plenty of students experimenting and adding their own designs and details…
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!…
A lovely class today with a small local community group who did simple white line lino carving. They experimented with plain printing, gradient printing and some even had a go at adding a bit of collage to their prints. As you can see from the photos, they all took to it really well. Thanks so…
A couple of weeks ago I finished this prototype for an upcoming full day workshop. This is a bespoke workshop for a craft group and on it everyone will learn how to create this Japanese stab bound journal and then metal emboss the front cover. There’s a quick video below showing you the book ‘in…
Last Thursday I was back at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert to run a ‘sketch and stroll’ workshop. The workshop was designed specifically for beginners and for those who say they ‘can’t draw’! Thankfully, although it was a bit breezy, the weather did behave itself and we even had some sunshine. We started off with a few…