This weekend I returned to Ardington to do another glass painting workshop with the lovely Nicola Kantorowicz. I had a very specific project in mind ever since I got involved with the Oxford Moth Project earlier this year I’ve been pretty fascinated by all the different colours and patterns of moths. While looking through my Read more about More painting on glass[…]
You may remember a couple of weeks ago I went on my first ever glass painting course. Our awesome tutor gave us the opportunity to try some test pieces as well as producing a main panel. As the test pieces were done on the second day they had to go home with Nicola to be fired, but Read more about And they are back from the kiln[…]
If you are a regular reader of this blog you may remember a few weeks ago I took a day off work and went to see Tamsin Abbott talk about her painted glass. Well this weekend it was my turn to give glass painting a go with glass artist Nicola Kantorowicz at the wonderful Ardington School Read more about First attempt at painted glass[…]
I took Friday off work and headed to the fantastic Ardington School of Crafts for Christmas copper foil. We were given a selection of patterns but the angel you see above was based on some inspiration on my glass Pintrest board. The Christmas trees were more of a traditional design but I decided to switch Read more about Christmas Stained glass[…]
This weekend I completed my second stained glass class under the expert tutorage of Sarah Glover. Before going to the class I was unsure what I wanted to make, at my first class I was convinced that I wanted to do an owl but this time I was torn between a mythical dragon (I blame Read more about Second stained glass class[…]
A few months ago Jam’s dad gave me this beautiful corner chair, the seat was broken and he thought I’d enjoy the challenge of fixing it. It’s been say in the spare room for a couple of months till I realised the most wonderful Ardington School of craft had a re-caining course. A place was Read more about Not rushing – recaining a chair[…]
So on Thursday and Friday instead of going to work I went off to frolic in the fantastic Ardington School of Crafts for 2 days of learning from the fantastic Ray Slater. Our task was to make contemporary cloth dolls and by gosh we did. Our first task of the day (after tea and biscuits Read more about Creating cloth dolls[…]
(The finished windows at the end of day two). This was the week of my first stained glass lesson at Ardington School of crafts. Ardington is lovely & going back to the old school house really felt like going home. You’ll remember that before I went I did some research into the type of window Read more about My first stained glass class[…]
My little Arucana babies are growing up. I went to clean them out at the weekend and to my surprise (as we didn’t think they would start laying till next year) this awaited me. I think its from Carmen as she seems to have gained a red wattle above her beak where there others are Read more about A first for the arucana babies[…]
This Tuesday saw my first class at the AMAZING (caps because it is) Ardington School of Arts and Crafts. I was there to learn about marbling on fabric (I took cotton & silk but the cotton didn’t come out that well (I think it was too thick) so in this post it will be just Read more about Marbling on silk[…]