» Listings for October 2015

1. Pyrography at the Buckingham Summer School

   Posted on 1:11pm Thursday 29th Oct 2015

   I received a pyrography tool as a wedding anniversary present and enjoyed playing about with it. I realised that I needed to learn more about this art form so started looking about for a course. I found one with Bob Neill at the Buckingham Summer School and thought it looked, so I signed up. This is a great art form and so much more refined than my initial experiments. This is a great day and Bob and Del were very patient teachers, helping me refine my clumsy technique. This is something that I would like to try on leather and play about with some effects. Some of my days work is below.

   

2. Leather Moulding weekend

   Posted on 10:00am Saturday 10th Oct 2015

   On the 10th and 11th October 2015 I tried some leather moulding with Katherine Pogson from designercourses.com

   The weekend was spent working with natural russet leather and moulding it over forms. We looked at using existing items like plastic trays and also creating forms using plaster of paris. I used dariole moulds and some cat food trays. The results are below. I have tried other shapes and used leather acrylics to decorate the leather.

   

    

    

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