Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Farewell!
I've moved. This blog is now hosted on the wordpress.com site. http://jenhendesigns.wordpress.com Why? Because, when viewed on the iPad it looks really professional and is much easier to use.
Friday, 30 July 2010
Books galore
Took an interesting class today at the City Lit, London, on contemporary ways of doing medieval bookbinding. We learnt to use plastic wires, cable ties and even car tyres.
Saturday, 20 March 2010
Published!
The March/April 2010 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors has published my letter about using Citra-Solv - it's in the Muse Flash section.
http://www.clothpaperscissors.com/blogs/clothpaperscissors/archive/2010/02/17/cloth-paper-scissors-march-april-2010.aspx
http://www.clothpaperscissors.com/blogs/clothpaperscissors/archive/2010/02/17/cloth-paper-scissors-march-april-2010.aspx
Friday, 19 March 2010
Time flies
Time flies... there has been little or no time for any creativity... or maybe this is an excuse for lack of inspiration. However, this might well change. Spent two days this week at Art Van Go taking a workshop with Ruth Issett -- Creative Paper Works. The group worked with acrylic mediums and colour to make wonderful textured papers.
The two examples here were made by 1. collaging white/neutral papers of various thickness and texture; 2. Brushing a light coat of white gesso in parts; 3. Brushing parts with acrylic varnish that had procion dye powder added for colour; 4. an ink wash using procion dyes as the ink (turquoise, lemon yellow and magenta); 5. an overall wash of magenta to integrate the colours; 6. Markal (Shiva) paintsticks rubbed over the surface; finally a light brush of acrylic wax with gold Pearl-Ex powder was lightly brushed over part of the surface in the top image -- the one at the bottom has some acrylic matte medium added in circle shapes for added texture.
Thursday, 21 January 2010
Old stuff

Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Absence makes the heart...
Well it has been a long time since the last post. Been busy travelling - Sorrento, Italy, in September; Stockholm, Sweden and New York City in October - then November was spent preparing for a workshop I taught at Art Van Go plus house guests and lots of socialising. Busy, busy.
Now having a very relaxing time at our condo in Naples, Florida. It is wonderful to be away from the cold and ice of London. Though it was cold here for the first few day after arriving the weather is back to normal -- sun, blue skies and warm. The most we have to think about is what to eat!
The downside of all this is that my creative muse has abandoned me... I can't put my mind to anything, not even jotting down ideas in a sketch book. Today, Carol, who I have met in the virtual world of the Altered Books group, sent me a link to a great blog - Dispatches From LA - where there is an online class for making a shabby journal from scraps. The images reminded me of a textured book wrap that I made some time ago for a miniature book of fairy tales with etchings by David Hockney. The material I used was dyed by me during a class with the wonderful Ruth Issett. The book wrap was made after a class with Angie Hughes.



Now having a very relaxing time at our condo in Naples, Florida. It is wonderful to be away from the cold and ice of London. Though it was cold here for the first few day after arriving the weather is back to normal -- sun, blue skies and warm. The most we have to think about is what to eat!
The downside of all this is that my creative muse has abandoned me... I can't put my mind to anything, not even jotting down ideas in a sketch book. Today, Carol, who I have met in the virtual world of the Altered Books group, sent me a link to a great blog - Dispatches From LA - where there is an online class for making a shabby journal from scraps. The images reminded me of a textured book wrap that I made some time ago for a miniature book of fairy tales with etchings by David Hockney. The material I used was dyed by me during a class with the wonderful Ruth Issett. The book wrap was made after a class with Angie Hughes.




Monday, 24 August 2009
Stephanie Redfern at Festival of Quilts


My first teaching workshop
Exciting news... Art Van Go have asked me to teach a workshop in November. It's a real honour as I still consider myself a learner in mixed media. However, in a former life I was an information specialist and have a great capacity for recalling useful, and sometimes useless, information, which I love to share. This includes mixed media techniques, inspirational books, and web based resources. The workshop will be about sharing things I have learnt. The papers that will be created can be used in collage, handmade books, scanned for developing in Photoshop; printed onto fabric as well as inspiration for other work.
Monday, 17 August 2009
Altered Books

Corinne's work can be viewed at http://www.glitz-oh.com/art/main.php
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