James Sharp Workshop - Day 2

Day 2 and we were focusing on Lynne Perrella and Teesha Moore techniques.

James was having heart failure trying to control the 6 of us - hehehehe!!!

This is one of the techniques they use, random squares and punched shapes and pieces of fibers just randomly placed. Funnily enough, this was Martins favourite page!!

This next technique was my favourite page. The idea was to blend images into the images on the background so you can't see which is which and instead of it being two, it all became one.

Again, we had a bit of a tidy up and moved on to our next technique.

I know it's hard to believe from this double spread, but there are actually 4 different copies of photos on this page. The idea is to cut out extra heads to disguise where they join. I'm really pleased how mine came out. Using pastel crayons we hi-lighted various heads.

 

James demoing the next part of the process.

Chris hi-lighting her heads.

This is Lin's page.

This is my page with the copper and red wash over it. Tried to do drippage but the page was too wet.

Another regular boarder page, this time from magazine pieces.

Everyone creating their borders from magazine bits.

Then we made people using different body parts and accessories and again, I was dared to write in the leftover space.

We also created an irregular border and had to incorporate an image in one of the corners using it to create the border. Added another image and some more writing.

Then we were given the choice of some Teesha and LP papers to put in our books to hide the covers as James had very kindly made us all a cover to put our books in.

This is the back page. The left hand page was just for us to add random images as we went along.

This is the front cover which is all fabric.

And this is the back cover, again all fabric.

And the show and tell, James, Helen, Em, Lin, Chris and Linda.

And I lifted this one of all of us off James's blog post.

Thanks everyone for a lovely, fun filled weekend.

To see more of our weekend check out - 

James's Blog

Helen's Blog

James Sharp Workshop - Day 1

This is us, from left to right, Chris, Linda, Helen, James, Emma, Lin and I was sat on the end. We are alfesco at James's workshop in the Peak District.

Then we got going. We had to choose one image and stamp it at least 50 times on lots of different backgrounds, along with a whole range of other stamps.

The shop and stamps that were for sale.

This is a view from the garden side.

And more of the shop, this side were the journals and aprons.

The tables soon got into a mess!!

This is what we'd done so far. We were simply sampling on different background papers and making a sampler page in our journal books.

My work space, look at all those wooden stamps!!!

My sampler page. We used different backgrounds mostly on shiny papers.

Then we had a bit of a clear up to start on the fabric printing.

Linda and Helen.

Emma and Lin.

James passing down more pieces of fabric.

Helen had been round the gardens taking some photos and Linda, Chris and Lin were shopping.

More shopping, Helen has her basket which is overflowing - hehehehe!!!

So this was the reason for the 50 images, to create an Andy Warhol style double spread.

The girls and James finishing off their Andy pages.

Chris assembling her Andy page.

Lin and her pages.

Linda and her pages, although she was a few short - lol.

Helen and her finished pages.

Em and her nearly finished her pages.

Adding the final touches.

 

And James and his double pages.

Then we moved on to creating borders with our stamped images.

This was the irregular border and then a row of images in the middle.

And the regular border with a collage of images, I just chose 3 to work with.

Everyone creating their borders.

Hard at work, but we were having great fun.

Em deciding what to do next.

Linda placing her border images.

Then I was dared to write in the spaces so I did. It still needs titivating, but in the main, it's done.

And more writing on this page. This page is full of where everyone was up to.

I think this is Em's page but I'm not entirely sure.

Sorry, can't remember who this one belongs to. Let me know so I can update please.

Let me know who's this is please!!

This one is Helen's as she started to do some writing.

This could also be Helen's irregular border pages.

And that was it for day 1. Day 2 to follow.

Oriental Surprise!!

I really wanted to try out my two new oriental stamps. The background text image was bought for me by my mate, Emma, and Lin kindly bought me the one of the figure. I painted the tag in the red Dylusions paint as I wanted it to be really bright. Stamped the background with versamark and heat embossed with black embossing powder. Stamped the image onto a separate piece of card and mounted it on black card. Added washi tape and fibres to finish it off.