.....the scene of my mystery novel, "Bad as Gold"...... more coming soon.........
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Welcome to The Hargate House Hotel
.....the scene of my mystery novel, "Bad as Gold"...... more coming soon.........
New Workshops Coming Up.
These are the next workshops I'll be giving:
Newburyport Adult Ed
Flowers, Flowers, Flowers - Botanical Watercolor
April 30 - May 21
1:30 pm - 4 pm
At South Church in Newburyport
Contact: vhendrickson@newburyport.k12.ma.us
Welcome spring by painting a bevy of flowers. Botanical watercolor differs in several ways from the usual watercolor methods. We will explore these new techniques that will allow you to create wonderful paintings of several varieties of flowers.
You will need to bring three sable brushes (the best you can find) numbers 2, & 4. All other materials will be provided.
Book in a Box - A Memory Book
May 8 - May 29
7 pm - 9 pm
High School
Contact: vhendrickson@newburyport.k12.ma.us
First, and most importantly, let me know what theme you want to use: family, pets, flowers, children, boxing (?), heritage, women, your spouse, spring, no particular theme or anything else you’d like, so I can bring the proper papers and images. Think of images you can bring, like photos, or magazine pictures, etc..
Make copies of old letters, photos, etc. Don't bring originals unless you want to use them 'up' or I can make copies at home of anything you need. You can also bring ribbons, memorabilia or flat items you’d like to use on the pages.
Please feel free to email me to ask me any questions or information you need before we start the workshop (after you apply) . Remember to bring some small sharp scissors if you have them. I can provide a couple if you don’t, but I don’t have enough for the entire class.
To save time, please cut out the pertinent images so you don’t have to go through the magazines during the class.
1st Day - We’ll be collage-ing the box today and planning the contents of the book.
Bring any kind of text or papers we can use to decorate the box itself.
Save special things for the book. We’ll talk about anything you need for the book itself.
If time permits, we will begin the making of the accordion book.
2nd to 4th Days: - The exciting work will begin, the making and embellishing the book
book book until we have a finished work of art, an Artist’s Book.
More workshops soon!
Newburyport Adult Ed
Flowers, Flowers, Flowers - Botanical Watercolor
April 30 - May 21
1:30 pm - 4 pm
At South Church in Newburyport
Contact: vhendrickson@newburyport.k12.ma.us
Welcome spring by painting a bevy of flowers. Botanical watercolor differs in several ways from the usual watercolor methods. We will explore these new techniques that will allow you to create wonderful paintings of several varieties of flowers.
You will need to bring three sable brushes (the best you can find) numbers 2, & 4. All other materials will be provided.
Book in a Box - A Memory Book
May 8 - May 29
7 pm - 9 pm
High School
Contact: vhendrickson@newburyport.k12.ma.us
First, and most importantly, let me know what theme you want to use: family, pets, flowers, children, boxing (?), heritage, women, your spouse, spring, no particular theme or anything else you’d like, so I can bring the proper papers and images. Think of images you can bring, like photos, or magazine pictures, etc..
Make copies of old letters, photos, etc. Don't bring originals unless you want to use them 'up' or I can make copies at home of anything you need. You can also bring ribbons, memorabilia or flat items you’d like to use on the pages.
Please feel free to email me to ask me any questions or information you need before we start the workshop (after you apply) . Remember to bring some small sharp scissors if you have them. I can provide a couple if you don’t, but I don’t have enough for the entire class.
To save time, please cut out the pertinent images so you don’t have to go through the magazines during the class.
1st Day - We’ll be collage-ing the box today and planning the contents of the book.
Bring any kind of text or papers we can use to decorate the box itself.
Save special things for the book. We’ll talk about anything you need for the book itself.
If time permits, we will begin the making of the accordion book.
2nd to 4th Days: - The exciting work will begin, the making and embellishing the book
book book until we have a finished work of art, an Artist’s Book.
More workshops soon!
My Mystery Novel is Almost Finished!!
Last year, I took part in a great program called NaNoWriMo, which is National November Writing Month. Tons of budding writers (read: me) took part and basically what we had to do was write 50,000 words in Nov..
Sound easy? NO! I had begun this book years ago, so I cheated, since I already had about 18,000 words, but I still had to struggle really hard to finish the 50, 218 words by Nov. 30.
Now is the hard part.....editing.... to make an already too long blog short, I have several 'readers' doing me the favor of pre-editing and now I'm sending it out to an editor.
Then, when all the re-writing, editing, changing, sweating, crying, tearing-out-of-hair is done, it will go to be published as an e-book on Kindle and Nook. Hopefully by April 15.
If you don't have either, Kindle, and maybe Nook books (have to research this) can be downloaded to your desktop, iPad, whatever, and you all can read my book! Aren't you lucky?
It is a murder mystery set in a New York City Hotel during Fashion Expo, where companies take booths to show off their lines of dresses. The main protagonist, Lindy Price, is the Assistant Security Manager of the hotel. She is funny, pleasantly plump and sassy.
She has several encounters with Reilly, the NYC detective in charge of the investigation, and the rest is for you to read about! (And yes, nowadays, you CAN use a preposition to end a sentence with, but we'll see how a proper-to-the-core literary editor feels about that!)
So, bottom line, stay in touch and I will send out a call to all of you to help me get a Pulitzer....right, and if you believe that, there's this long bridge in NY I'm selling.
Sound easy? NO! I had begun this book years ago, so I cheated, since I already had about 18,000 words, but I still had to struggle really hard to finish the 50, 218 words by Nov. 30.
Now is the hard part.....editing.... to make an already too long blog short, I have several 'readers' doing me the favor of pre-editing and now I'm sending it out to an editor.
Then, when all the re-writing, editing, changing, sweating, crying, tearing-out-of-hair is done, it will go to be published as an e-book on Kindle and Nook. Hopefully by April 15.
If you don't have either, Kindle, and maybe Nook books (have to research this) can be downloaded to your desktop, iPad, whatever, and you all can read my book! Aren't you lucky?
It is a murder mystery set in a New York City Hotel during Fashion Expo, where companies take booths to show off their lines of dresses. The main protagonist, Lindy Price, is the Assistant Security Manager of the hotel. She is funny, pleasantly plump and sassy.
She has several encounters with Reilly, the NYC detective in charge of the investigation, and the rest is for you to read about! (And yes, nowadays, you CAN use a preposition to end a sentence with, but we'll see how a proper-to-the-core literary editor feels about that!)
So, bottom line, stay in touch and I will send out a call to all of you to help me get a Pulitzer....right, and if you believe that, there's this long bridge in NY I'm selling.
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