Vintage Button Books and Cards
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2 Hour Video Workshop
Unlimited access to this recording of a previous live Zoom class.
Printable Reference Sheets
All the required reference sheets are included.
Materials and Instructions
Includes a printable materials list and full detailed instructions.
Easy Cheats!
Buttons, button, buttons!!! Dig out your old button tin and use some some pretty, vintage buttons to inspire these gorgeous little cards!
We will be using beautiful old haberdashery ephemera to inspire this lovely project and, if you are a regular you'll know, as always, there are so many possibilities!
This is a relaxing a fun workshop suitable for all ages and experience levels
Includes Step-By-Step Instructions and Tips & Tricks
The whole process is relaxing and restorative as we learn to built layers of colour. All the difficult decisions here are made for you so that you can enjoy experimenting with colour and patterning effects.
You could add real buttons to your 'cut-out-and-keep' cards or illustrate and stitch on paper buttons.
During the session, I'll even show you how to add these illustrations to a tiny button book.
You will learn how to blend and build colour in mixed media, explore different options for adding collage and how to make cohesive colour choices as well as loads of little useful tips, cheats and hacks!
Fun, Friendly and Welcoming!
You could add real buttons to these 'cut-out-and-keep' cards or illustrate and stitch on paper buttons.
During the session, I'll even show you how to add these illustrations to a tiny button book.
This class is suitable for all experience levels. Come and join the fun!
Jane
Your workshop was absolutely brilliant! Everything is clear, concise and easy to follow – being a beginner I did not feel overwhelmed but excited at all the creativity possibilities!
Liz
Thank you for the workshop, Lucia, and for the lesson. It was an epiphany... the permission to use artistic licence! Wow! I do love your sheet of little pictures, just like I do the lettering sheets from the last workshop I did with you...thank you for the spur to start again a daily art practice.
Lucia Leyfield
Lucia is an artist, letterer and teacher who loves creating illustrated journals and artist books. She has become known for a unique and creative approach to her work which has been described as 'quietly joyful...a nostalgic, moving and profound ...a treasure chest of creativity and inspiration'
Her journals and sketchbooks, which record life as it happens, conversations, inspirations and experiments, have become works of art in their own right. Many of Lucia's sketchbooks are handmade with a range of papers and combine traditional and experimental hand lettering with watercolour, collage and mixed media sketches.
She is inspired by a diverse range of things: the old, rusty and wonky, worn architectural patinas, ancient diagrams, aged buildings, old books and ephemera, explorers' sketchbooks and vintage field guides.
