Lots of fabulous autumn leaves lino prints were created on my workshop at the Land of Oak and Iron Heritage Centre yesterday. The workshop was aimed specifically at beginners to lino printing, and I took everyone through getting used to the tools and materials, through to designing their blocks and then printing them up in…
The final session of my September taster workshops was on rubber stamp carving. This is where I started out my lino printing journey over 30 years ago! It was great to introduce a student to this accessible artform and she created two excellent stamps on the workshop, with plenty of fine detail. Fantastic work!
A lovely evening spent with members of Langley Park WI yesterday, showing them how to create a simple lino print. We had plenty of fun playing with colour, and some even had a go at gradient printing too. Fabulous prints by everyone!
It was great to welcome back two students to the workshop today, who come along every few months to learn something new. This time it was lino printing and it was the first time creating them for both students. I absolutely love the prints they both created. Fabulous work, both of you!
I was in the mood for creating some new greetings cards to send to friends and family, and so decided on a small series of spring flowers. Inspired by the flowers coming up in my garden, I carved out a snowdrops design and two different daffodil designs from lino. The daffodil designs I created the…
Some of the lovely chine collé lino prints made on today’s private class in my studio. The great thing about private studio workshops is that we can play and experiment, and as well as chine collé, I was also asked to demonstrate gelli plate printing and metal embossing! One of the ladies also brought some…
Workshops for February and March are now available to book! I’m waiting for more dates to be confirmed, but for the moment, these are the workshops that are ready to book now. Keep checking back for the others. 7th February – Metal embossed heart workshop – great for Valentine’s Day!12th February – Found poetry workshop28th…
From complete beginners to fabulous lino printers in just one day. I had a great day teaching a mum and daughter how to carve and print lino in my studio today. They came for a private workshop to celebrate a birthday. We started right from the very beginning, going over tools and materials, then…
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…
I had a great day back at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert yesterday, showing everyone how to make lino printed tote bags. Everyone carved out their own lino block and then we got printing with fabric inks. Using sponges to apply the inks to the lino blocks rather than a brayer, meant that variegated, autumnal…
If you’ve already done some simple one colour lino printing, and would now like to experiment with adding more colour, why not try the chine collé technique? It’s really simple to do and can easily be done without a press. In this less-than-3-minute video, I show you how. Let me know how you get on!
A series of autumnal lino prints of a sycamore leaf found in my garden. They are printed using the chine collé technique, where collage paper is used to create the background colour. I also created the collage papers using a mono printing technique. It’s a really lovely technique for adding colour to lino printing, and…
