Studio blog: Inktober 2024, week 3 round up
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.







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.
A huge thank you to everyone who has left a review on one of my workshops on CraftCourses.com, I received the Gold Students’ Choice Award from them yesterday! I am absolutely over the moon and really appreciate everyone who has taken the time to leave a review. I absolutely love passing on my joy for…
I made this copper embossed clock recently as a birthday present for my partner and I’m pleased to say it has gone down very well! Apparently it’s ‘the best birthday present ever’ 😄 The design is by my partner, it’s the monogram he uses on his artwork, and he will be using the clock in…
A huge thank you to everyone who has come along to one of my classes this year. It’s been an amazing year and I’ve loved every minute of it and meeting so many wonderful people. If you would like to see what people have been creating on my workshops this year, then I have plenty…
Here’s another three colour reduction lino print, which I completed this afternoon. Reduction lino printing is a way of creating a multicolour lino print, by carving and printing each layer of colour out of the same block of lino. There are only 8 of these in the edition, so these will be going out to…
Recently I’ve really been enjoying making these metal embossed sketchbooks. Those with my Celtic designs on I made as sample pieces for my workshop with Birtley craft group, you can see all their amazing sketchbooks here. I recently spent a fantastic long weekend away with a group of amazing ladies, for each of whom I…
I had a fantastic day at PrintFest in Ulverston on Saturday, where I attended two workshops taught by Alex Jakob-Whitworth. The morning workshop was a drypoint workshop where I worked on a scene local to Ulverston, a view looking towards Hoad Hill from Canal Foot. I have done drypoint before, but I joined the workshop…