Just a quick post to say I’ve updated my most popular blog post with a new 2020 free calendar download. I’ve been making one for myself for the past 4 years, it sits on my desk and is perfect for … Read More
Press for Design is 8 years old today! Thanks so much to everyone who has supported me over the years, whether by hiring me as your graphic designer, buying some of my artwork or my book, coming along to a … Read More
This month’s free download is a stationery set created from my Climbing Roses illustration. The set contains both A5 and A4 papers, as well as a C6 envelope for you to print out and use as many times as you … Read More
Looking out at a sheet of snow covering everything this morning, I thought we could all do with a bit of colour! So this month’s free download is a colouring page of my Peace illustration, drawn in 2015 and which … Read More
Make your own 2019 star shaped desk calendar – with three free downloads!
The lovely Louise Lewis asked me to be a guest blogger this month, and I was absolutely thrilled to be asked! My blog is all about how I prepare for my workshops, so if you’re thinking of putting on your … Read More
My lovely partner has just spent two months of back breaking work re-roofing both our and our neighbours houses. And of course that means we have a lot of old broken slates … and as a crafter I can’t just … Read More
I’ve been wanting to play with gelatin plate printing for quite a while, but as the commercial plates are pretty expensive, I hadn’t yet managed to have a try. Over the past few weeks I’ve been teaching collagraph printmaking, and … Read More
Yesterday I was playing with some pre-gessoed canvas paper, and ended up drawing a mandala on it. I had to use a brush pen, as the canvas was quite rough, hence the much thicker lines than I would normally draw … Read More
