Riikka Kovasin workshop 1: Unfamiliar flowers grow on the seashore

Hello there! How are you? I hope you are well. Things have been getting worse with my lovely dad - he just seems to be shutting down at present and is sleeping and sleeping. At least he doesn't seem to be in pain which is great - we will just have to wait and see what the next few days bring. I am spending as much time as possible with my mum - love you mum!

So at the weekend I had the most fabulous time at Art Workshops in the North East - The very talented Riikka Kovasin was the artist who took us for the workshops - she was a very calm and beautiful person and talented - did I mention talented??? Here's a picture of us before I left on Sunday.



The first workshop that I took was titled Unfamiliar flowers grow on the seashore. It involved making lots of ATCs.


This is during the workshop - in fairness to Riikka I don't want to publish a step by step method but it involved beautiful papers, gel medium, mica powders, sprays and gorgeous ephemera. I loved it to bits! I have swapped one atc and given one each to the girls and one to my mum - these are the ones I have left.

and this is possibly my favourite...

Here we all are at the end of the workshop:

I loved this workshop -- I hope you have enjoyed my report of it - and don't mind me bringing you more reports later in the week.

Big Hugs

Rachel x