Tuesday 8th November

Inspired by Sissa I made a start on my christmas cards this week. I took a lino block home to cut into, and Oksana took some press print home. When we arrived on Tuesday we had both done almost identical designs and found that we had both used the same image for inspiration, even though I found mine on page 10 of a google search and Oksana's was on the back of a craft magazine! Spooky!
Siobhan continued with her scrapbook, Markus played around with some multi media experiments and Sissa had her first try at shaving foam prints having missed the class earlier in the year. We also talked about having a 'Community Art School Christmas Do'.

Is it too early to be getting extremely excited about Christmas?! I don't think so!

Tuesday 1st November - Tie Dye, back to the 60's!

This Tuesday was the first week back after half term and we had all almost forgotten that we had the unveiling of the clingfilm work as a nice surprise. When we peeled back the clingfilm from the paper what was left was a beautiful, richly coloured and textured surface. It's almost hard to believe that the paper is 2D. We haven't quite decided what to do with them all yet, some will be used as backgrounds for printing or drawing, whilst others are just artworks in their own right.

After this I fancied having a go at good old fashioned tie dying! I havent done it for ages and as it's quick I thought we would give it a try. I also really like having something to come back to the following week and not knowing what it will look like until we unwrap it.

There was a bit of time left at the end and everyone got on with individual projects. Siobhan is making a scrapbook for a friend and started to use some of the techniques we have practiced to decorate the pages. Sissa made a start on her Christmas cards! I'm very jealous of the beautiful snowflake print she has created. And Oksana dabbled with monoprinting, copying some images she liked from her daughters school work.

All in all, a successful week!