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Doing workshops are such great fun and last Saturday I had a group of lovely ladies who enjoyed getting very messy hands using lots of glue and paint. We altered one of those paper mache book boxes that has a drawer in it.
I took along the box we were making and some samples of possible other embossed backgrounds and colours they could use when they try it out for themselves another time.
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These are some of the finished boxes made by the class.
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The group learned a great deal about how to prepare card substrates for lots of layers of paints; the thickness of paints when wanting to add a coat or a wash and creating textures.
Thanks ladies you worked so hard and produced some magnificent results.
Quote for this week.
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint', then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
Have a creative week.
hugs {benda} x0x
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