Her face is fashioned from craft felt. Strips of recycled t-shirt fabric are hand-hooked into burlap cloth – much as one would hook a rug – to create her tresses. The background fabric is a portion of unbleached muslin onto which I write during my morning meditation process. The muslin is heavily machine-stitched to a…
Two of a series of three birds constructed to serve as window displays at a local non-profit, fair trade shop. Using an under-lament of recycled corrugated plastic to provide rigidity, they are primarily fashioned from craft felt. I designed them to slide onto recycled bamboo ladders. They each measure nearly 6 feet from beak tip…
How I spent my week: designing and creating a donation piece for an auction to benefit Therapeutic Horse-riding and Youth Outreach Programs. This is my first attempt at hat decorating! Traditional millinery technique dictates that ornamentation is sewn, not glued, into place. Lots and lots and lots of teen-tiny stitches, including seed bead embellishment. Done!!!
Designed and made a 12 inch prototype of a fantasy bird in felt. The actual birds – three of them – will measure more than 6 feet from tip of beak to tip of tail, and will serve as Spring/Summer window dressing in a neighborhood gift shop. Never worked that large before – woo-hoo!!!
3×3 inch canvases wrapped in pages of my morning meditation writing. Hearts made of recycled newspaper collaged with bits and pieces of new and old newspaper and vintage dictionary pages. Series of 7. Art by Joan E. Heinrich of Lakewood, Ohio.
Set of five papier-mache structures made from mostly recycled materials, designed to play together as a moveable city-scape. Joan E. Heinrich, Mixed Media Artist, Lakewood, Ohio
Set of five papier-mache structures made from mostly recycled materials, designed to play together as a moveable city-scape. Joan E. Heinrich, Mixed Media Artist, Lakewood, Ohio
A set of five paper-mache buildings made from mostly recycled materials and designed to form a moveable city-scape.
A set of five papier-mâché buildings made from mostly recycled materials and designed to form a moveable city-scape.
A set of five papier-mâché buildings made from mostly recycled materials and designed to form a moveable city-scape.
