LINO PRINTING WORKSHOP no. 2

Lucy Bishop held the second of her Lino Printing Workshops on Saturday and we had people coming in from all over North West England and what a nice and talented group they were. I didnt join in this week, instead playing host and chief brewer.   Ive crammed as many images in as I can, so that you will see everything they did.

Jo Pritchard came from Liverpool and brought us all a name badge which she had made herself. She showed us how to scratch our names into the board and how to enhance the design by scratching round the images.  What a lovely way to start our day.  Jo was a natural at lino cutting, look at the fabulous dragonflies on the bag she printed. 

Annette came from Prestwich with her friend Anna and printed some beautiful almost 3D butterflies on her bag.  I love her bird design with an apple on its head.

 

Anna did an Angie Lewin type design on her bag and did a block print similar to the one I did last week. Her bag has a nice layout.

 

I love these lino cuts by Carol they are so beautifully done.

Carol in deep concentration

She also brought her handmade Journal along to show us.  

. You can see more pages from it on my Sketchbook Friends Blog

 www.sketchbookfriends.blogspot.co.uk

  Barbara Jepson did some lovely Christmas tags
I like how she experimented printing onto black paper and layering up stamps

 

and then made this tea towel with a great contemporary design using black and brown fabric paints. 

www.barbarajepson.com

 John Wolfenden from Littleborough created this wonderful tree lino cut and printed it onto a cotton tea towel.  In the past he has done a stain glass course and showed us this great image by using the lino print on the acetate he was using to roll out his paint.  I missed the little owl you did John.

It was a fantastic day and I met some lovely people.
Link over to Jo's blog to see her take on it.

www.jozartdesigns.blogspot.co.uk

LINO PRINTING WORKSHOP no. 2

Lucy Bishop held the second of her Lino Printing Workshops on Saturday and we had people coming in from all over North West England and what a nice and talented group they were. I didnt join in this week, instead playing host and chief brewer.   Ive crammed as many images in as I can, so that you will see everything they did.

Jo Pritchard came from Liverpool and brought us all a name badge which she had made herself. She showed us how to scratch our names into the board and how to enhance the design by scratching round the images.  What a lovely way to start our day.  Jo was a natural at lino cutting, look at the fabulous dragonflies on the bag she printed. 

Annette came from Prestwich with her friend Anna and printed some beautiful almost 3D butterflies on her bag.  I love her bird design with an apple on its head.

 

Anna did an Angie Lewin type design on her bag and did a block print similar to the one I did last week. Her bag has a nice layout.

 

I love these lino cuts by Carol they are so beautifully done.

Carol in deep concentration

She also brought her handmade Journal along to show us.  

. You can see more pages from it on my Sketchbook Friends Blog

 www.sketchbookfriends.blogspot.co.uk

  Barbara Jepson did some lovely Christmas tags
I like how she experimented printing onto black paper and layering up stamps

 

and then made this tea towel with a great contemporary design using black and brown fabric paints. 

www.barbarajepson.com

 John Wolfenden from Littleborough created this wonderful tree lino cut and printed it onto a cotton tea towel.  In the past he has done a stain glass course and showed us this great image by using the lino print on the acetate he was using to roll out his paint.  I missed the little owl you did John.

It was a fantastic day and I met some lovely people.
Link over to Jo's blog to see her take on it.

www.jozartdesigns.blogspot.co.uk

We all learned a thing or two

Ruth hard at work with Susan looking on

Yesterday our craft group had a machine embroidery workshop led by one of our members, Meg. 

My practice piece at home

What a fantastic teacher she is very patient and giving of her time and materials.

Our first task was to get the feel of drawing with our machines

The flowers are what I achieved at home before the workshop

Then we were given a sheet with different shapes on and we had to try and do them in stitch.

Done with dissolvable plastic

Next up came embroidery using a soluble material.
Drawing a design on to the plastic we then embroidered it so that all the thread was linked together.
After which we ran it under the tap and hey presto you have these delightful leaves to layer up and make into a brooch.

Shading

The last task was shading but unfortunately we ran out of time so I can only show you the start of the pieces.
Shame !
Despite some machines not doing as they were told and mine breaking down ( I was gutted as I had been practising hard for two days), we had a lovely day.  Barbara was brilliant in coming round with Meg and helping out when cries of "HELP" could be heard.

Now the thing is when Ruth got home there was Trevor making a meat & potato pie for tea followed by an apple pie.  When I got home I couldnt even prize a cuppa out of Philip he was to busy watching sport on TV.
So I am thinking of putting him in part exchange for Trevor.

Thank you Meg and Barbara for a great day, one we can build on (once my machine is working again)

We all learned a thing or two

Ruth hard at work with Susan looking on

Yesterday our craft group had a machine embroidery workshop led by one of our members, Meg. 

My practice piece at home

What a fantastic teacher she is very patient and giving of her time and materials.

Our first task was to get the feel of drawing with our machines

The flowers are what I achieved at home before the workshop

Then we were given a sheet with different shapes on and we had to try and do them in stitch.

Done with dissolvable plastic

Next up came embroidery using a soluble material.
Drawing a design on to the plastic we then embroidered it so that all the thread was linked together.
After which we ran it under the tap and hey presto you have these delightful leaves to layer up and make into a brooch.

Shading

The last task was shading but unfortunately we ran out of time so I can only show you the start of the pieces.
Shame !
Despite some machines not doing as they were told and mine breaking down ( I was gutted as I had been practising hard for two days), we had a lovely day.  Barbara was brilliant in coming round with Meg and helping out when cries of "HELP" could be heard.

Now the thing is when Ruth got home there was Trevor making a meat & potato pie for tea followed by an apple pie.  When I got home I couldnt even prize a cuppa out of Philip he was to busy watching sport on TV.
So I am thinking of putting him in part exchange for Trevor.

Thank you Meg and Barbara for a great day, one we can build on (once my machine is working again)