Life, Art and Alteration: Vintage Ladies

Friday, 4 September 2009

Vintage Ladies

I sometimes struggle to use vintage pics effectively, but the lovely texture of these handmade papers works really well with glamorous ladies. The combination of the two creates some really feminine, tactile-looking journal or altered book pages.

2 comments:

Carmen said...: Love your vintage ladies and you're right that paper is perfect. Is that ribbon threaded up the side of the bottom one? Great effect.; 5 October 2009 at 03:30
Claudia Hemmings said...: Yes, there's a layer of ribbon threaded through eyelets, with a layer of embroidery thread over that. thanks for the compliments!; 6 November 2009 at 12:45

About My Art....

I've had a go at just about everything in the past...Card making, Art Journals, Collage/Mixed Media, Photography, Papercraft, Embroidery, and Scrapbooking.

I've moved onto fine art in the last few years, and my main interests are Landscape, Botanical and Wildlife art. As I get older I'm becoming more and more passionate about nature and conservation issues, and find these are the subjects I want to study and paint.

I've never had any art lessons at all, so I've learnt from books and videos. I like watercolours and coloured pencils (both the dry type and water-solubles).