Student Showcase: six week metal embossing course, week six
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I had a fabulous day with a craft group up in Birtley, Northumberland, yesterday, showing everyone how to make a Japanese stab bound sketchbook with a metal embossed cover. In the morning I showed everyone how to make the cover, taking everyone through the tools and materials first, creating a sample piece, and then moving…
Four fabulous metal embossed Japanese stab bound sketchbooks were made on my workshop in the studio yesterday. We started off creating a practice piece of metal embossing to get used to the tools and materials and how best to use them. Three students designed their own motifs and one decided to go with one of…
What a great morning I’ve had at Holyoake Community Centre in South Pelaw, showing everyone how to make metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments. Such an enthusiastic and friendly group, I had a great time with you all! With 14 people on the workshop, it got a bit busy, as you can imagine, and so unfortunately…
Yesterday I taught a workshop on how to create these metal embossed heart ornaments, and had a lovely afternoon with the mum and son who came along. The hearts are inspired by the Mexican tradition of making ‘milagritos’ and ‘corazones mexicanos’, which you can read a bit more about here. I took them through creating…
On Monday I taught a lovely art group who meet just around the corner from me in Annfield Plain. I showed everyone how to do simple white line lino carving and then how to print out their carvings using both plain and gradient colours. As you can see from the photos, they all took to…
Once again I’m over the moon to be working with Highlights Rural Touring for their autumn / winter season. I will be teaching two different workshops for Highlights Rural Touring – a metal embossed Christmas ornament and chine collé lino printed Christmas cards. I will be at: Gleaston, Cumbria, 5th October – metal embossed Christmas ornament…