I had a great afternoon yesterday with two lovely ladies on my Mindful Messy Mandala workshop. We were supposed to be a group of four, but unfortunately one lady had to cancel at the last minute. I hope you’re feeling better soon. The whole aim of the workshop is to play with colour and pattern…
I had a fun morning today with a local community art group, creating metal embossed coasters using aluminium. Everyone was a complete beginner to metal embossing, but you can see what amazing results they all had! I took in a few different designs that everyone could work from, and some people added little extras to…
My six week metal embossing course being held in conjunction with Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert is going really well. Everyone has been working on larger projects during these few weeks, and two of them were finished today. On the left is a wonderfully intricate bookmark, and on the right a very elegant house number….
I had the pleasure of meeting three lovely ladies today who booked a Make a Junk Journal workshop on demand as a group. They all had a specific project in mind for future junk journal making, and it was great to chat with them and hear all about their plans. They each made a beautiful…
Today saw the start of a six week metal embossing course, held in conjunction with Breathing Space at Witton Gilbert. For this week, everyone worked on creating a metal embossed coaster, using designs that I took along. We started off using a practice piece of metal first, to get used to the tools and materials….
Today saw the last session of my three week journal making course, and what a lovely course it was! In week 1 I taught basic lino carving and printing and we printed up the fabric for the spines of the books. In week 2 I taught gelli printing and a fun acrylic paint technique and…
I had a fantastic two mornings yesterday and today with the groups that Angela Reed of Creative Calligraphy runs in South Shields. I showed everyone how to make an accordion flag book, which is a fun structural book, that’s great for putting on display. I took plenty of art materials with me, and everyone got creative…
We had so much fun on part two of my three week journal making course. My little studio is now full of beautiful decorative papers that we made using acrylic paints and gelli prints. Here are just a few of the papers we ade. Next week we’ll be making the journals using some of the…
This afternoon saw the start of my three week multi media journal making course. Step one was to learn how to carve lino in order to create some hand printed fabric to create the spine of the book. We went through the basics of lino carving, how to use the tools and materials, practiced some…
