Week of Courses
GILDING NATURE
Learn techniques for gilding flowers, leaves and seedheads from your garden. Start with pressed leaves and flowers, then progress onto more challenging 3D items such as dried pods, seedheads, cones, bark, fresh leaves, flowers, pebbles and shells. Put together your own arrangements to create decorative pieces for Christmas, weddings and special occasions. Jo Mabbutt Residential:
GILDING FOR CHRISTMAS
Bring some metallic glitz to your own Christmas cards and wrapping paper this year! Learn to use real metal leaf, metallic transfer foil and metallic powders to create striking patterns and designs, bold and subtle images and backgrounds. Print and stencil with metallic varnishes and waxes for wrapping paper designs and textures. Experiment with combinations