My Latest Obsession

Book Making Time Lapse Video

2012-03-12T21:28:20Z

http://folksy.com/shops/mylatestobsession

Book Making Stall

2012-03-06T22:15:04Z

Last weekend I had another stall at the South West Jumble in Tooting - my Mum came to help too!

I've also done some time lapse filming of the book making process which I can't wait to put together and publish! Here's a sneak preview of some books all sewn up and ready to be glued to their covers:

Stay tuned...

I'm busy over here...

2012-02-05T15:18:46Z

Well hello!

I am still alive! I've just been really busy doing my new blog www.londonhiker.com!

Been walking!

2011-10-24T22:41:59Z

Been away walking in the Lakes at the weekend. This is me in Coniston.

I had a great time, and hope to share more of it with you very soon!

Doodles

2011-10-18T08:00:00Z

Oh I did some good doodles last week:

Happy Monday!

2011-10-17T08:00:00Z

It's Monday, it's time for nice pictures!

1. Natalie, in one line, 2. Hurt never again, 3. pensieri zine5, 4. pensieri zine2, 5. IMG_1653, 6. Large owl - Owl Be Your Friend, 7. Daisy Red, 8. guest book, 9. tag gate

Created with fd's Flickr Toys

Friday Art Class

2011-10-16T08:00:00Z

Catherine Redfern

These are the words that just be true

2011-10-14T23:43:12Z

I keep on scribbling

In the spare room I'm living in
Body's here but I'm living in
Why do I keep wasting time

I keep on writing, writing
But them folk ain't biting, biting
Maybe the bait ain't juicy enough
So I'm switching, chucking spice in, add some flavor,
Up the heat, silly rhymes and three-time beats, yeah

But that ain't me - nah, nah, nah
It just ain't me
So like me or lie me
These are the words that just be true
Sending them out with love and faithfully,
Hopefully, they'll mean something to me cause...

Life is too short to store our grudges
Life is too long to make no plans, plans
I'm counting up time that I ain't using (1,2,3,4...)
I need a good use for all these lines, and lines, and lines, and lines
And lines, and lines, and lines, and lines...

ghostpoet

I can't put into words how much I love creative people.

Who put in the hard work.

And create things.

And put them out into the world.

"Sending them out with love and faithfully."

Because they just have to.

Who just can't help pouring out these lines, and lines, and lines, and lines

And lines, and lines, and lines, and lines...

Easel

2011-10-14T08:00:00Z

Catherine Redfern

Ordinary life

2011-10-12T08:00:00Z

I thought I'd post up some old cartoons I did back in 2008.

If you like this, you might like my zine made whilst walking the Coast to Coast!

I wish...

2011-10-10T08:00:00Z

...That I had a job where I could dress like this every day and no-one would care.

...That I didn't have to spend ten frustrating minutes every day trying to find a pair of tights without holes in them, or spend precious hours of my free time ironing shirts.

Happy Monday!

Happy Friday!

2011-10-07T08:00:00Z

1. Sea Life Bunting, 2. Somewhere down the crazy river, 3. detail 3, 4. 20100906_5325, 5. Almost Autumn, 6. pencil sketch of fashion girl with bow belt, 7. Sweet Child, 8. Bluegrass, Hiking & Beer, 9. Clippy London Bag

I've scheduled this to post on Friday, but around this time I'll be heading off to the Knitting and Stitching exhibition at Alexandra Palace, wahoo! Will definitely blog about it afterwards...

A message from Cy Twombly

2011-10-05T08:00:00Z

The other week I went with my friend Helen to see a Cy Twombly exhibition at Dulwich.

I LOVE Cy Twombly. Saw the big exhibition at the Tate a few years ago and fell in love with his work then. Here's a little doodle I did back then:

The Dulwich show was comparing his work to Poussin. To be honest I didn't care about Poussin. It was Twombly all the way for me.

His work is completely beautiful. Here are links to some examples

As I stood in awe of the paintings I noticed how his style of messy, energetic paint with scribbled phrases and words reminded me of artists / art journalers such as Samantha Kira Harding or Sabrina Ward Harrison (for example), or Christine Mason Miller.

There is something about the mixture of paint and words that I do love a lot.

Anyway the exhibition also featured some of his sculptures and this one caught my eye so I picked up a postcard of it (I also picked up a couple of completely inadequate postcards of his paintings).

Words to ponder, I think.

On Bow Fell, Langdale

2011-10-03T08:00:00Z

So, the other weekend Andrew and I went to the Lakes and did some walking. As usual, as you can see, it rained!

Anyway, he made a very exciting video about it and I'm included! Check it out here.

Spiral Painting & Journaling

2011-10-01T14:11:41Z

After the full-on practical activity of the craft fair last weekend, during the week I needed to do something a bit more arty and creative just to relax more than anything, so I got the easel out and did another 'Fearless / Total Alignment' style painting.

This time I had fun blending the paint on the surface and enjoying the pastel colours that resulted.

I love this process of painting so much. As it is more about the process than the result, and it's not supposed to look like anything, it's not only fun to do but also somehow a lot easier to share.

I've also been following Suzi Blu's new journal class "A Lovely Dream", I've always been a big admirer of her style and some of the work she's been posting is just beautiful.

To be honest I haven't had time to do anything from the class yet, but I decided to spruce up my boring moleskine by collaging the front to remind me to do more in it:

It's a good opportunity to use up a lot of paper scraps too!

I'll paint over it and add more to it. I really want to make the coptic bound journal she has instructions for and hopefully I'll get around to that eventually.