Lino class

I had a great day teaching lino cutting and printing on Saturday with Jill, Jenny and Clare. I wonder if they were as tired as I was that evening?! I do love this teaching, it's such fun helping people to bring their designs to fruition. You always learn from your students as well, so it's an interesting process for all.

Luckily Jill, Jenny and Clare all liked cats, as Pepper aka Tibbles aka Mr. Tibbs wanted to meet everyone.

Here's Jill cutting her block.



Clare inking up -  a delicate balance to get those really thin layers of ink; Jenny taking a closer look!

Jenny cutting her words, back to front of course so that they print the correct way round.

Jill turned out to be the hand burnishing Queen, taking great care to get an even print. We loved her lady cycling along with a goldfish in a bowl.

 

Clare looks after hedgehogs in her garden, her little hedgehog was delightful.



Jenny did really well cutting her letters, here's the resulting message in red to match her kitchen.

Pepper was also tired with his day of lots of attention!

It's a hard life!



Happy cat

My new house guest, Pepper, is making himself very much at home, trying out all the best places to make himself really comfortable....

...on my patchwork fabrics here! These lovely fabrics are for a quilt for Barney's bed, blacks and reds.

More lovely work from my class at the weekend....

Mavis printed a delicate allium head,

Jenny with a prickly teasel

and Rebekah with cute reindeer...

ready for next Christmas. The results of another fun, busy day.



3rd lino class

3 more people joined me early in January for a lino class. Another busy, interesting day with all of us learning from each other. I love printmaking whether on my own at home or with my print group but teaching the process adds a new dimension which I'm really enjoying.

Above, Pete hard at work on his powerful cheetah image.

Inking up......

Jean's lovely tree and landscape....

and the finished prints....

Asako's iris block inked up and the finished print; beautiful.

 I'm also having problems with uploading photos so have done this using Firefox, but it doesn't seem to behave in the same way as Internet Explorer, so this has taken ages!