Kent artist Elizbeth Harbour – Welcome to my world!
Welcome to my blog, where I hope to share with you arts, crafts and living – a creative way of life!
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Kent and Sussex Paper Marbling – Paper ready!
As an established printmaker and marbler in Kent I was very excited to receive my paper for marbling; now all I need is a warm, windless day to create various designs and colour combinations! Keep...
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Art Classes in Kings Hill Tunbridge Wells and Wateringbury Art for Enjoyment...
September Flowers – a very quick study to show you pen, ink and brush techniques. The trick is to draw what you see, and play around with various marks and weight of line!
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Art in Wateringbury and Kings Hill Art for Enjoyment: creating a textured...
Method This week in our Kent art classes we started the Paint gesso onto board method using a wide brush (decorating brush); using the gesso fairly thickly, paint with broken brush strokes. Once it is...
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Kent Art Classes Art for Enjoyment: September Flowers – a work in progress!
I love teaching my art classes in Wateringbury and Kings Hill in Kent. We have been experimenting with acrylics and following on from creating a textured background, I have painted flowers and foliage...
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Watercolour Studies – Art for Enjoyment Wateringbury and Kings Hill
In the last two lessons we have been exploring and experimenting with watercolours. The important thing to remember when using watercolours is to work from light to dark, mix strong colours and plenty...
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Emma Mason British Prints Book Signing and Demonstration
I have made up my jelly printing surface, finished my hand block printed cushion covers, packaged my marbled paper – I will be at Emma Mason British Prints today 30th of November from 12-4 p.m Hand...
View ArticleThe Small Tudors – how to make homework fun!
One Sunday afternoon my daughter had a history project to do for primary school homework, about the six wives of Henry VIII. We decided to make a little film, she drew out all the characters making in...
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Papier-mâché Horse
I have been thinking about using my marbled papers for decoupage, so decided to make a papier-mâché horse – it’s amazing what you can do with a pringle pot! The horse is also made out of millboard,...
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Simple screen-printing
Just before Christmas I introduced my students to screen-printing, showing them how to process and print from a silk screen. Once you have an image that you are happy with (it’s worth spending time on...
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Preparing Board with Gesso
In Art for Enjoyment we have been painting portraits, so I thought that I would show some pictures of how I gesso millboard in preparation for acrylic. Priming board – creating vertical texture with...
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Portraiture in Acrylic – Art for Enjoyment
In my ‘Art for Enjoyment ‘classes I always demonstrate process and techniques related to each project. Here are two stages of the portrait process – these are very quick studies, using a textured...
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Eridge Decorative Living Fair May 8th, 9.30 – 5.30 p.m
At the moment I am preparing for the Eridge Decorative Living Fair on Thursday the 8th of May 9.30 – 5.30 p.m. Where I will have on sale – hand printed cards, limited edition artist prints and...
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Kent Art Classes Art for Enjoyment: September Flowers – a work in progress!
I love teaching my art classes in Wateringbury and Kings Hill in Kent. We have been experimenting with acrylics and following on from creating a textured background, I have painted flowers and foliage...
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Watercolour Studies – Art for Enjoyment Wateringbury and Kings Hill
In the last two lessons we have been exploring and experimenting with watercolours. The important thing to remember when using watercolours is to work from light to dark, mix strong colours and plenty...
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Emma Mason British Prints Book Signing and Demonstration
I have made up my jelly printing surface, finished my hand block printed cushion covers, packaged my marbled paper – I will be at Emma Mason British Prints today 30th of November from 12-4 p.m Hand...
View ArticleThe Small Tudors – how to make homework fun!
One Sunday afternoon my daughter had a history project to do for primary school homework, about the six wives of Henry VIII. We decided to make a little film, she drew out all the characters making in...
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Eridge Decorative Living Fair
My stall at the Eridge Decorative Living Fair – hand block printed fabrics, papers, hand screen-printed cards and textiles, limited edition prints, hand marbled papers and handmade dolls. Elizabeth...
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