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Event Description
Janine will start with a brief history of decoupage and guide you through a selection of decoupage tips and technique videos.
You will then use napkins and decoupage glue to create a beautifully decorated jam jar, which will be able to hold battery-operated fairy lights or tea lights.
There will be plenty of one-to-one support and opportunities to ask questions throughout.
Materials needed for the session:
HOME ITEMS
- Work on a tea tray, wipeable mat, or plastic tablecloth.
- Glue can be cleaned up if on a non-absorbent work area.
- Brushes can be cleaned under warm water.
- At least two clean glass jam jars.
- 2 battery-operated tea light candles or fairy lights.
If you already have suitable decoupage glue, flat tip brushes, or napkins, there is no need to buy more.
LINKS TO MATERIALS
- PVA Glue: £3.49
- Decoupage Brushes: £4.99
- Decoupage Napkins: Choose a design scale to fit the jam jar.
- Battery-Operated Tea Lights: £4.99
- Duration: 60 mins
- Online Zoom event: Join from your computer, phone or tablet (a recording will be available)
Meet the Host, Janine Kilroe
Janine Kilroe is a professional Fine Art Photographer gaining her Photography degree in 1985. She has a Postgraduate Certificate in Education and is also a Public Speaker delivering a wide range of talks and workshops. She lives in Oxfordshire.
As a photographer she has worked and travelled for many major international companies such as: Shell, The National Trust and The British Tourist Board. She has taught Photography and IT in University’s, Colleges and for 8 years in various Prisons.
Achievement Highlights: Exhibited at The Royal Academy Summer Show, Saatchi Gallery, London. The Royal West Academy Bristol twice plus many other galleries and Art Shows throughout the UK and Europe.
Including two solo exhibitions and artist in residencies at Derwent Pencil Museum, Keswick, Heritage Centre Hassocks and a three-group exhibition “Alternative Views” at West Oxford Art Society.
Her photography has been reviewed in and featured on the front cover of The British Journal of Photography, EOS Magazine, Cotswold Life, and The Oxford Times.
Her signature artwork is: To print black and white fine art photographs onto watercolour paper, then selectively reintroduce colour back into the image by hand painting using watercolour pencils and washes.
Current projects: Film photography book projects.
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