Studio blog: Inktober 2024 – week 2 round up
Week two of my Inktober project saw a lot of crafting tools and a couple of days out.
See my week one blog to read a bit more about the project.
Week two of my Inktober project saw a lot of crafting tools and a couple of days out.
See my week one blog to read a bit more about the project.
Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me this year, it has been an amazing year, delivering 107 workshops both in my studio and to organisations around north east England. As well as my studio workshops, I have also delivered workshops for Durham County Council‘s Thrive programme, Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert, Creative…
Pictured is the beginning of one of my Celtic knotwork drawings. They start from a pencil drawing, often involving a geometric base. Once hand drawn, the piece is coloured in pencil, with a little bit of gold ink along the way sometimes. With all the intricate detail and many layers of colour, an A4 piece…
Last week I finished a metal embossed keepsake box project, and now that it has been received by the intended recipient, I can show it to you. I used a balsa wood box for the base, which I painted in chalk paint, mixed with a little acrylic paint to get the shade I wanted. The…
A few months ago I bought this fabulous ‘Waves’ bargello kit by the Bargello Sisters and Appletons Wool. I bought the kit from Bargello-A-GoGo who I can thoroughly recommend (no affiliation, just very pleased with the excellent service!). I absolutely love the colour combination and really enjoyed the relaxing process of slowing down and stitching…
The month is flying by and week three of Inktober is already over! Above are my sketches of daily life for this past week. See my week one blog to read a bit more about the project.
This week I’ve been playing with an old poppy lino print of mine, and creating some new artwork with it. The original poppy lino print was a three colour reduction lino print, which resulted in five original hand pulled lino prints. That original reduction print can be seen to the right of the text here….