Student Showcase: six week metal embossing course, week six
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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…
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…
Today saw the last session of my three week journal making course, and what a lovely course it was! In week 1 I taught basic lino carving and printing and we printed up the fabric for the spines of the books. In week 2 I taught gelli printing and a fun acrylic paint technique and…
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…
With the Lindisfarne Gospels coming to the Laing Art Gallery this autumn, interest has been growing in the art of creating Celtic knots. One of my two main art focuses is drawing Celtic knotwork, and I teach this skill to others too. In the class I’ll teach you how to draw a basic Celtic knot….
Over the past two weeks I’ve had a great time with Angela Reed of Creative Calligraphy and her two groups that meet regularly on Thursdays and Fridays. This is part of Angela’s larger Calligraphy and Creative Wellbeing project, that you can read all about on her blog. In the first week I took everyone through…