Palette knife workshop

Posted on February 24, 2024February 24, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, acrylic on canvas board, enjoyed, Fine Art, Orme Art group, Palette knife, Workshop2 Comments

I went to a palette knife workshop today. The subject was a painting of rocks amid heather on local moorland.

This is my piece, I just want to add some shadows to the white cotton grass at the bottom. We started with a lime green acrylic wash to knock back the white of the canvas board, then we had to outline the rocks. We painted the top part softly with a brush and added in pink tones at the top and pale green grass with hedges painted in gently,

Then we started with the palette knives. The small pallet knife to shape and layer the rocks and then a bigger palette knife for the grass and finally blacks purple, red and pink for the heather. You have to use the sides or flat of the knife to get various textures.

It was a really enjoyable workshop with a teacher called Jo Watson. The workshop was with the Orme Art Group.

#bandofsketchers prompt was experience. I had the experience of doing this. I think the painting we worked from might have been Derbyshire or Staffs moorlands?

Yin yang cats

Posted on September 26, 2023 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Batik, Cats, Colourful, Design, Fine Art, Layers, Printing, wax resist, Workshop, Yin yang2 Comments

My attempt at wax resist printing that I did with the brilliant Belinda Latimer a few years ago. I enjoyed trying to do Batik in her workshop, creating layers of colour. I also did a print of a couple of fish that I called Pisces had framed in a deep wooden frame. Another example of my experimental art practice.

Glass

Posted on July 2, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Fun, Fused glass, Glass, Necklaces, north east, Wire weaving, WorkshopLeave a comment

A few years ago I went to a fused glass workshop. I made glass cabochons that were then surrounded by wire woven to support them. The result were some amazing and bold necklaces.

The artist that ran the workshop was called Angela Ashton. And my friend Deborah Travis did the wire weaving so the results were really a good collaboration. I found this on Facebook memories and I really wish I could do it again, although Angela moved back up to the North East Coast I did find someone else who does workshops, the only problem now is the cost and I’m sure with the price of fuel these days the process won’t be cheap.

Two years ago

Posted on May 13, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, circus, Design, Flag, Fun, History, Horse, Life, Philip Astley, Sewing, WorkshopLeave a comment

Two years ago I was at a workshop. I was making a peice of a flag to celebrate Philip Astley inventor of modern circus born 1742, in Newcastle under Lyme. Belinda Latimer ran the workshop. Good fun to try a different craft. I don’t do much sewing or embroidery so this was quite enjoyable. I used a sacking type of cloth on top of a type of canvas cloth. I never did see the finished flag as there were different workshops to bring it all together.

Glass star

Posted on September 14, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, diamond shape, Fun, Fused glass, Glass, Memory, star shape, Time, Workshop2 Comments

Small pieces of coloured glass embedded in diamond shaped clear glass which is joined at the centre to form a star. This is an example of fused glass which my hubby made at a workshop a couple of years ago. This summer it’s been outside in the garden but I will bring it back in and hang it in a window when the weather starts to get frosty. I don’t know whether it would break in the cold but I would like to keep it safe. Its about the pleasure of making things and the memories of the friendly people who were there that adds to the experience. Made in a group led by Angela Ashton. Glass artist.

Hubby’s glass star

Posted on July 31, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Creating, Creativity, Fused glass, Glass, Sunshine, Workshop1 Comment

In amongst the fern leaves. My hubby created this glass star at a workshop a couple of years ago. When the sun is setting behind it the red glow of sunset sometimes lights it up. It reminds me of gum drops caught in jelly. The colours make me happy.

I think we shall book another workshop. I have an idea of us making some new pieces.

Transformation

Posted on July 16, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, everyday object or scene, Experiment, Pattern, Sketching, technique, WorkshopLeave a comment

First take an everyday object or scene. Then redraw it but change it. That’s what I’ve done here. Coming up with different ideas in twenty minutes. So I give you a lighthouse, graffiti torch, a torch to see fingerprints (which might be leaking acid) and changing between straight lines and curves. Fun workshop. I’m going to work more on lines and shading.

Clay at the gardens today

Posted on June 14, 2021June 14, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, BCB, British ceramic biennial, Clay, Fun, Pottery, Spode, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, Trentham, WorkshopLeave a comment

One thing I did do yesterday was make a couple of pieces clay that might be used as part of a tiled piece at the BCB (British Ceramic Biennial in September at Spode in Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent. They will be fired up and someone else may end up glazing them.

I made lots of marks using old buttons and metal rings. I tried to give them a three dimensional look. I hope they won’t explode on the kiln.

It’s good finding different things to do when you are having a day out.

Glass time

Posted on May 29, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Experiment, Fun, Fused glass, Glass, Learning, Life, looking forward, WorkshopLeave a comment

Today I found someone at a place called Art Glass Lounge where they do glass workshops. I was really pleased because I had wanted to do some more glass pieces and my hubby wanted another go too.

We met a lovely glass artist who was very informative and helpful. Social distancing was used and at the end we bumped elbows. We had a go at grinding the glass to shape it, melting thin glass rods with either a candle or a blow torch to slump it or with the blow torch, fuse it together.

Very interesting and enjoyable.

Batik workshop

Posted on May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Batik, Design, fabric inks, Fish, Fun, pisces, Sketching, sketching with wax, Workshop3 Comments

Fish from a batik workshop I was part of a couple of years ago. It was with an artist called Belinda Latimer. She moved away or I would have liked to do another one. The pictures round the side are by other people in the workshop. It’s great to let yourself do something new if you can.

Mallaband-Brown

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