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Get Creative: How to draw a Charles Rennie Mackintosh style rose

Get Creative: How to draw a Charles Rennie Mackintosh style rose

by Carrie on 24th January 2021 with No Comments

This week’s ‘draw along with me’ video is now up, about how to draw a Charles Rennie Mackintosh style rose motif, with some Celtic knot heart and leaf additions. The materials you’ll need are: A5 paper (148mm x 210mm) Pencil … Read More

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Get Creative: How to draw a simple poinsettia

Get Creative: How to draw a simple poinsettia

by Carrie on 17th January 2021 with No Comments

Another ‘draw along with me’ video for you! This week it’s how to draw a simple poinsettia design. The video has been filmed in real time so that you can draw along with me. The materials you will need are: … Read More

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Get Creative: How to draw a Celtic style floral mandala

Get Creative: How to draw a Celtic style floral mandala

by Carrie on 11th January 2021 with No Comments

In my last post I gave you a free Celtic floral mandala colouring page – in this post, you can learn how to draw one yourself! The video has been filmed in real time so that you can draw along … Read More

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Get Creative: Star shaped desk calendar project with free 2020 calendar printable

Get Creative: Star shaped desk calendar project with free 2020 calendar printable

by Carrie on 3rd January 2020 with No Comments

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

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8th anniversary celebration! And a free colouring page too :)

8th anniversary celebration! And a free colouring page too :)

by Carrie on 1st September 2019 with No Comments

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

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Get Creative: Peace colouring page

Get Creative: Peace colouring page

by Carrie on 1st February 2019 with No Comments

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

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Get Creative: 2019 desktop calendar project – with free downloads!

Get Creative: 2019 desktop calendar project – with free downloads!

by Carrie on 8th January 2019 with No Comments

Make your own 2019 star shaped desk calendar – with three free downloads!

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Guest blog post for Louise Lewis – and a freebie download!

Guest blog post for Louise Lewis – and a freebie download!

by Carrie on 29th September 2018 with No Comments

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

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Get Creative: Recycled slate house number plates

Get Creative: Recycled slate house number plates

by Carrie on 12th September 2018 with No Comments

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

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Experiments with gelatin plate printing

Experiments with gelatin plate printing

by Carrie on 17th August 2018 with No Comments

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

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New 'how to' video out tomorrow! I've refined my C New 'how to' video out tomorrow! I've refined my Charles Rennie Mackintosh rose design, and will be showing you how to draw the one in the bottom of the picture in this week's video. It'll be out tomorrow (Sunday 24 Jan), look up 'Press for Design' on YouTube πŸŒžπŸ‘
This week's 'draw along with me' video is how to d This week's 'draw along with me' video is how to draw this simple poinsettia motif. You'll find it over on YouTube, search 'Press for Design' to find my channel. I hope you'll have a go, and will show me what you created 🌞 Happy drawing!
Four free colouring pages are now up on my website Four free colouring pages are now up on my website for you to download. Just go to www.dendryad.co.uk (link in bio) and then click on 'Colouring Pages'. Happy colouring 🌞
On the right, painted in acrylics 2 years ago. On On the right, painted in acrylics 2 years ago. On the left, drawn and coloured in pencils today. Think this might be the subject of another video tutorial, if you're interested?
Get creative! 🌞 I put a tutorial up on my YouTu Get creative! 🌞 I put a tutorial up on my YouTube channel yesterday on how to draw this Celtic style floral mandala. I recorded it in real time, so that you can draw along with me. Feel free to tag me with your art once you've finished, I'd love to see it 😊 Search 'Press for Design' on YT to find it πŸ‘
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