Wow, what a day - Seth Apter workshop with Paperartsy

Glossing  quickly over Southern Rail's attempts to screw up the day, today saw me heading at 6.15 to Shenfield in Essex for the Paperartsy - Seth Apter workshop.
Big thanks to Leandra for picking myself, Kirsten and Claire up from the station (and back again) - loved the detour to the home of Paperartsy and the farm, we can envisage you all the better now.

Anyhow, on to Seth and the workshop - managed to take quite a few photos during the day (and the camera remains paint free) - we were working on a large canvas along with a smaller one to mount on top.  Seth is a very patient guy and explained and showed each step so we all knew what we were doing..

 after Seth got us all to introduce ourselves to the class it was time to get painty..

 Jo and Alison

there were lots of ladies I didn't know, but I do know Claire and Darcy of course

 with her back to me, Caz, Miriam, Jo

 Kirsten and Claire next to Darcy

 first two paint colours mixing on the canvas... you'd never guess by the end of it this is were it starts!

We had a selection of Frescos to work with, including the new Seth colours... oh boy.. fabulous or what!

 couple more layers..

 keep going...mono printing off a sheet of smoothy cardstock (bit like gelli printing I guess)

 tea break, Miriam showing Seth the swap journal she and Darcy and doing

 back to work... get some paint on the smaller canvas, and some water-pulling (I couldn't get this to work, so will be trying again soon)

 big gap in photos now, where we leap to stencils... lots and lots of stencil layers

Seth made sure we all knew what we were doing at each step of the way and helped lots (especially with my water pulling that didn't! )

thanks to Julie Hickey for taking this

 next work in progress shot , getting some die cuts in there

 next step,nearly at the end now, some pen work and shadowing and mark making... we spent 45 minutes on this that flew by (and I will be adding to at home)

everyone listening and watching intently

 Seth and Rebecca who was sitting next to me

 more watching intently

 lots of tweeting going on..

 my table, I seem to have not got Hazel in for some reason, so sorry Hazel!
Bernadette, Jackie and Debs

 someone (Claire!) has already let out of the bag that I had a big splurge.... well like that was a surprise..

 close up...

 closer..  stamps...

 added to my stencil stash too  (sorry about the flash glare)

a HUGE thank you to Seth and Mark and Leandra for putting on this workshop - it ran so smoothly (lunch was gorgeous) and everyone gave so freely of their time.

to the PAtwits I already knew and the ones I didn't before today, thanks for making it so much fun.


just lifted this group photo from Facebook.. in all our painty glory