Student Showcase: six week metal embossing course – week five
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I had a family group come to the studio for a private Christmas tree ornament metal embossing workshop on Thursday. It was a lovely afternoon spent with them all, and they created such fabulous ornaments. Excellent work, all of you!
It was great to be back at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert this week, this time running a ‘Found Poetry’ workshop. Found poetry is the art of taking a piece of text, and searching for a poem or sentiment within. Once this has been found, we then illustrate the poem, using drawing, paints, collage, rubber…
Today was week 3 of a six week lino printing course for beginners for a community wellbeing project in Durham. This week I gave everyone my sketch of a tree, and we worked on carving out our backgrounds and paying attention to the direction in which the backgrounds were carved out. As you can see…
I’ve had a really enjoyable two Mondays with the members of the Lanchester Monday Art Group, showing them how to create a reduction lino print. Everyone was so enthusiastic, and really took to lino carving and printing. Some members followed along with my sycamore leaf project, and others worked on their own designs. As you…
I’ve had a very enjoyable morning with two lovely people who came on my Celtic Knotwork Drawing for Beginners workshop today. We started off by learning how to construct the basic knot, and then played with adding break lines to make more intricate designs. We also worked on a simple corner knot motif. Lots of…
A fabulous selection of metal embossed illuminated monograms were made on my workshop at Land of Oak and Iron Heritage Centre on Sunday. I took everyone through the tools and materials first of all and then we created a test piece to get used to using everything. Next I took everyone through designing their own monograms and…