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February 2022
An Illuminated Letter with a Touch of Gold with Jan Mehigan
SYNOPSIS: Jan is a renowned calligrapher and artist, with an interest in both traditional and contemporary calligraphy. She is a Fellow of both the SSI and CLAS and is a popular and knowledgeable tutor and demonstrator. Enjoy designing your own decorative letters. Create vibrant modern decorative letters or an initial, using a dip pen, line, colour and gold (the real stuff or gold gouache). We will look at the techniques of arriving at good letter design with the…
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Gelli Plate Printing: An Introduction to Monoprinting Techniques – with Janina Maher
SYNOPSIS: Janina is a bookbinder and mixed media artist working from her garden-based studio in Reading. She loves experimenting with new materials and book structures and has been teaching bookbinding, gel plate printing and mixed media techniques for several years (including at Ardington School of Crafts). She is an exhibiting member of the Reading Guild of Artists. Gel plate printing is a process for making monoprints pulled from a gelatine-like plate. It is a fast and very addictive process! During…
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