Over the past three weeks my community group have been making their own gel-printed and metal embossed accordion books. The first week everyone printed up their book cover papers using various gel-printing techniques. In week two the papers had dried, and everyone made up their books using A2 sized papers, which we folded up to…
This morning was my final session with a local community support group, where we put together everything we’d learned over the past two weeks to make accordion note books. The covers were decorated with acrylic paints, then everyone carved a simple lino carved stamp to add extra details to the covers. Some decided to add…
I’ve been enjoying getting myself out and doing plenty of plein air sketching recently, mainly due to watching great videos by Woodward’s Watercolours, Koosje Koene and Toby Sketch Loose – I can definitely recommend those YouTube channels if you would like plenty of tips and encouragement! I made some simple accordion sketchbooks to put in…
