We had a lot of fun in our community art and craft group this week, tearing and cutting and sticking paper in order to create these vase of flowers greetings cards. I love how everyone took my initial idea and then interpreted it in their own way to create their cards. A fun and relaxing…
This week’s workshop was a really fun one on lino printing on fabric. The students had already completed my lino printing for beginners workshop, so we got straight on to carving out our designs and then learned techniques for printing on fabric rather than paper. Everyone had different styles and some experimented with different designs…
In this week’s workshop I showed everyone how to take a blank, balsa wood box, and turn it in to a faux marquetry decorated box. I call it ‘faux’ marquetry, as the method is very different to traditional marquetry techniques, but I still think it produces a lovely effect. It was definitely a relaxing and…
A look at all the wonderful ‘junk journals’ my class participants made in my workshop this week. No need for expensive art materials, these journals were all made from ‘junk’ found around the house – paper, cardboard, old magazines and wrapping paper, odds and ends of string and scraps of fabric. Journalling is a wonderful…
I’m showing off the work of another one of my ‘students’ today! There’s a bit of a story behind this one! I have been having a weekly Spanish / English language exchange chat with a lovely madrileño, Carlos, for the past 18 months. We’ve got to know each other well over that time, and he…
This week in my community art workshop we created a star shaped desk calendar, and I thought I would show you the beautiful calendar that Emma created. The decorated pages of the calendar were created with a monoprinting method. I showed everyone a few different techniques and everyone got stuck in and had fun playing!…
