Don't eat your sweets . . . print them II

I knew this would be fun to do with kids and I was proved right. Armed with sacks of sweets on Wednesday I had a printing workshop and we had great fun stretching, printing and eating them. creating all manner of owls, bats and monsters.

Below is a selection of our printing tools. 

Thanks to the young artists: Louisa, Camy and Sash

Don't eat your sweets . . . print them

Last weekend at George Douglas's class we were shown the possibilities of confectionary printing with midget gems.
I wanted to try some other sweets out and here are midget gems and liquorice allsorts. I have enjoyed working with sweets to create art before and I think I may try this soon with some school groups.

Sara Ogilvie Masterclass I

Yesterday I treated myself to a workshop with illustrator Sara Ogilvie at the National Gallery
 It was lovely to be able to see her working practice right from the initial ideas 'on the back of an envelope' right through all the development stages to the completed book. The images here are from the book Dogs Don't Do Ballet (Simon & Schuster) written by Anna Kemp.

Clouds Walking

Oh, I would have loved to be in this cloud building workshop by Tim Johnson, what a fantastic and inspiring artist.