Student Showcase: six week metal embossing course, week six
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I had a great afternoon last Friday with three ladies who came to celebrate a special birthday by learning how to emboss metal. They all took so well to the craft and made these beautiful coasters. Wonderful work, everyone! As it was a special birthday, I asked my other half to make his celebration cake…
Over the summer in my community craft group at The Lodge in Blackhill and Consett Park, we have been making raffia baskets. Here are a few of the baskets, both in progress and finished. I love how they have all turned out – amazing work, everyone! The trickiest part of raffia basket weaving is getting…
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…
I spent another lovely afternoon with a local art group, taking them on their next step in their lino printing journey. Earlier in the year I showed them how to do simple lino printing and some gradient printing, and today we moved on to chine collé lino printing, using collage to create colour. Lots of…
Today I taught a wonderfully festive workshop at The Lodge in Blackhill and Consett Park, where everyone learned how to make lino printed Christmas crackers. I first taught everyone the basics of lino printing, how to use the tools and materials and also how to print. We then moved on to carving out the holly…
Today was week 2 of a six week lino printing course for beginners for a community wellbeing project that I am teaching in Durham. Last week we just used a U-blade to create our carvings. This week, we moved on to using both a U-blade and a V-blade to create finer detail. I also showed…