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…
A lovely class today with a small local community group who did simple white line lino carving. They experimented with plain printing, gradient printing and some even had a go at adding a bit of collage to their prints. As you can see from the photos, they all took to it really well. Thanks so…
Shown above are a selection of the beautiful chine collé lino prints that were made on my workshop on Saturday at Gleaston Village Hall. Ten out of the twelve participants hadn’t done any lino carving or printing before and just look at what fabulous pieces they created! Have a scroll through the gallery carousel to…
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…
A quick lino print that I created to demonstrate the beauty of ‘chatter’ – all those expressive lines that occur as part of the carving process. Some printmakers don’t like them, but I love them and I make a feature of them – see my artwork for more examples! Come and join me on a…
Two beautiful bags made on yesterday’s private lino printing on fabric workshop. I love how the friends both took different approaches to their bag designs and that the ideas evolved as they carved the lino and printed up test pieces. Beautiful work!
I had a really lovely afternoon at Penruddock Village Hall on Saturday, leading a lino printed Christmas card workshop as part of Highlights Rural. The Christmas tunes were playing and everyone was humming and singing along as they carved and then printed their cards. There was such a great atmosphere, and everyone experimented with the process,…
It’s always a pleasure to teach at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert, and yesterday’s class was no exception. Above are a selection of the beautiful lino printed Christmas cards made on the workshop. It was another lovely group, all happy to experiment and play with the medium. Beautiful work, everyone, thanks for coming along!
I had a really lovely morning at Great Whittington Village Hall on Sunday, teaching a small but very enthusiastic group the method of chine colle lino printing, which is lino printing with collage. This was as part of Highlights Rural Touring. As you can see from the photos, they all created fabulous Christmas cards and…
After a great session creating metal embossed Christmas tree decorations at Gleaston Village Hall a couple of weeks ago (see that blog post here), I was asked back to show everyone how to create lino printed Christmas cards using the chine colle collage method. It was a fabulous afternoon and as you can see, everyone…
I had a fantastic day at Ellingham Village Hall yesterday as part of Highlights Rural Touring showing an enthusiastic group how to create lino printed Christmas cards using collage. As you can see from the photos, everyone really took to the method and created some beautiful cards. Thank you so much to Eileen at Ellingham Village Hall for looking…
Shown above are two beautiful journals made by a couple on a private workshop in my studio yesterday. The workshop was booked as a birthday celebration. We started off the day by going over the basics of lino printing and then they went to carve out their designs for both the cover of the sketchbook…
