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Kathleen Kay

Creative play for beginners in design

Are you at a loss for a simple design idea when, with no references to hand, a teacher asks you first to draw a design for a new project; or maybe you just lack confidence in drawing or designing and prefer to get on quickly with the enamelling?

Our finished enamels, when done well, could survive for a great many years so it's worth spending a little time improving our design skills. A line drawn confidently with style is usually preferable to a hesitant one lacking direction.

A few sessions trying various methods of creative play, with the help of a few aids and a fine marker pen, in the privacy of your own fireside will add to your store of ideas and help boost your confidence in producing design sketches fairly quickly.

Our requirements are simple, an A4 pad — of inexpensive paper so that we don't mind wasting a few sheets: a fine marker pen, giving a line of similar thickness to that of a pencil, but immediately imparting more confidence: and small, sharp scissors or a scalpel (if not both) to cut thin plastic sheet or card.

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