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…
I had a wonderful afternoon with three lovely ladies on my ‘Mindful Messy Mandalas’ workshop. The whole aim of the workshop was to play with paints and drawing mandala motifs and to relax and enjoy playing and experimenting with the materials. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the process and created beautiful mandalas, as you can see. We…
I had a fun morning showing two lovely ladies how to recycle papers, cardboard packaging, wrapping paper and fabric from around their homes in to hand bound journals that are unique to them. All three of us turned out to be keen knitters and crocheters too, so we had lots of good yarn chat, as…
Proud teacher alert 😁 It was the last lesson of my six week Celtic knotwork course at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert this afternoon, and what a fantastic class it was! Using some of my original designs as inspiration, everyone plotted out their grids to create the artwork and got stuck in to their final…
Today was week five of my six week Celtic knotwork drawing course at Breathing Space at Witton Gilbert, and my students surpassed themselves with their work! Drawing Celtic knots in a circle can be a tough challenge, yet everyone got stuck right in and created wonderful knots. I’m so proud of everyone! Next week is…
I had a wonderful afternoon showing a lovely lady how to make a copper house number plate. She was making it for a friend, who lives in a place with ‘olive’ in the name, hence the olive branch. In keeping with the olive theme, she aged the house number with green paint and added a…
I can’t believe how quickly the weeks are going by, we’re already in week four of my Celtic knotwork drawing course at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert! This week we worked on adding even more details to Celtic crosses and borders, and also had an opportunity to play as well. As you can see, lots…
This week we moved on to creating simple Celtic crosses and borders. We were a bit shorter on participants due to various reasons that couldn’t be avoided, but as you can see, there were still plenty of fabulous knots created! There was time for a bit of experimenting too, for those who wanted to try…
This afternoon saw week 2 of my six week Celtic knot drawing course at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert, and wow!, everyone did fantastically well! We moved on from the basic knot I taught in week one on to how to make the knot more intricate. Once they had learned the technique everyone was free…
