A wet weekend in Kemnay...
Monday, January 25, 2010 at 14:58 
This weekend saw the first of our 2010 Weekend Workshops. Five students completed panels, from the design stage right through to cementing and a final polish. The swear box remained empty, Wendy's daughter made a great little mosaic from scraps of glass, and much cake and coffee was consumed...
I always try and get feedback from the group as to how everything went. I had decided against imposing any size limit on panels for this class, to see whether there was a better way, and it was very interesting to see how folk approached the idea of limiting the number of pieces of glass rather than a size restriction. I think it worked much better in terms of the quality of the finished pieces.
Wendy, who created an amazing transom panel in just two days with aboslutely no previous experience, brought her daughter Ellen along on the second day. Together we cut her a range of mosaic pieces and she produced a funky little flower piece. At the end of the day, while we were clearing up and after she'd helped solder and cement her mum's panel, Ellen drew a group portait of the class (detail above). Not shown are my, allegedly, smelly feet...
Our next workshop will be held in late April - there are currently no spaces available on this class - and the summer workshop will be held at Mill Farm in late July (more details here).
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