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I ran a workshop firstly concentrating on clay, making small pebbles and decorative pieces using cookie cutters, and making impressions and patterns from found objects such as cut glass vases, pine cones and shells.  Then running with the sea shell theme we moved on to decoupaging individual jigsaw puzzles with pretty images of sea creatures.  

A watercolour painting of Jean Paul submitted to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

Designing and printing t-shirts.  As the Olympics and the Queen's Jubilee celebrations are nearly upon us, I thought it would be a nice idea to use the Union Jack flag, crowns, London buses and the Queen's profile to use as motifs on our personalised t-shirts.

Week 1:   Art Deco pattern printing and Rennie Mackintosh rose style paintings.   Week 2:   Wire Sculptures, choosing a favourite animal to sketch and work in wire. Week 3:   Shadow Puppets. Choosing scenes and characters taken from 'The Jungle Book'.  Week 4:   Japenese Silk Paintings. Designing watery effects based on Hokusai's 'Great Wave'.    Week 5:   Egyptian Art. Heiroglyphs and paintings on papyrus and clay models. Week 6:   Henry Moore style sculptures. Working with dry foam and clay filler. Week 7:   Self Portraits. Experimenting with watercolours on box canvasses. Week 8:   Aztec Silver Tooling and Monotypes.     Week 9:   Mosaics. Making...

Over the Christmas holidays I have been working on imagery to submit to the  'House of Illustration' book illustration competition, based on Angela Carter's book the 'The Bloody Chamber and other stories'.