Student Showcase: six week metal embossing course – week five
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It was sad to finish this six week lino printing course this afternoon, as I’ve really enjoyed teaching all the participants at a wellbeing centre in Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert. Today we had fun lino printing on fabric, which uses different printing inks and also I like to use a different method of inking…
Four decorative coasters / tiles made on today’s private metal embossing workshop in my studio. It was a great workshop with a mum and daughter. We went through a few basic techniques first of all, working on a practice piece, and then moved on to creating the coasters, learning a few more techniques along the…
Not just screen printed bags, although that was the main focus of this workshop! We also painted and added a few lino printed motifs to our bags too. Lots of fun was had, with plenty of ‘ooohs’ and ‘ahhhhs’ as screens were lifted off and textile paints blended together in unexpected, yet attractive ways. Sun…
Over the weekend I had four people come to my studio and learn metal embossing with me, and in the process they made a double-sided Easter egg ornament each. It was two lovely days, with plenty of creativity going on, and people making the designs I’d supplied their own, or working on their own designs….
We’ve long needed a key holder in our hallway, so with the new year I decided it was time to create one! As I’ve been working a lot with my Celtic knotwork and metal embossing recently, I thought it would be good to combine the two again and create a metal embossed key holder. This…
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…