Delicious pressure

Last gasp of summer – Brighton Beach.
It’s less than 2 weeks until I need to deliver works for Canterbury.  I have one large one that needs to be finished, and one smaller one that I would like to substitute (60cm sq).  I did promise one that is already a completed work – and it may [...]

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Illustration Friday – Fortune

My submission to Illustration Friday – Fortune 
I LOVE fortune cookies.  I love that they hold tiny messages from a huge factory somewhere that have the power to make us feel warm and special, comforted or powerful.  I love that words can do that, and that our minds do the rest.  Arn’t we great.

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sticky fingers

The nature of friendship – Work in progress

Had my second session of oil painting today.  Gosh I’m having fun.  It is difficult though.  The paint is so slippery I find it difficult to keep it where I needs it to be.  Any imperfections are so visible, and impossible to fix immediately because the paint becomes [...]

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Feet First

3 works – 1st wash
As promised, yesterday I jumped in.  I actually enjoyed it immensely.  I’m still nervous about the drying times though.  With acrylics, it’s dry within hours, so it’s possible, if you’re really diligent to almost finish a painting in one day.  An acrylic painting takes me about 10 hours work.  I’m not [...]

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Looking for structure

I don’t know how it happpens.  Actually – that’s probably how it does happen.
Last night I stopped for a minute and looked around to realise my house was a mess!  I have 2 small children, and an enthusiastic nature, so it is probably no wonder that we move from one activity or distraction to the [...]

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Self-portrait Wednesday

Although I’m shy, I’m an enthusiastic, clumsy, expressive person.  I get carried away with myself in my own obsessions – and when it comes to my art I appreciate the fact that what’s in my head manages to make its way on the the canvas without too much inhibition these days in terms of skills [...]

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Bloodletting

Decor Do – about to be done
Bloodletting was seen as necessary at one to time to relieve a wide range of medical imbalances.  Thankfully it isn’t done anymore – I go weak at the knees at the sight of blood.  If It didn’t affect me so badly I’d certainly be a blood donor.  Lord knows [...]

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Bag it

I’m sitting at the computer – shoulders up around my ears, calling out for the 5th time (in under 20 minutes) – ‘I’m at the computer – just give me another couple of minutes!’ (actually that last bit should have been in capitals.  There is a constant procession of transformers in various mutations, easter eggs [...]

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In which I crack up…..

Don’t get me wrong, I love Easter, I love birthdays, I love my husband, I love my family and being an integral part of all of that, but the past 2 weeks have left me a little crazy….
I have, dismantled an exhibition, planned and executed a children’s birthday party for 12 guests, a family one [...]

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I look funny

My husband tells a great joke. It’s great because it’s clean and appeals to kids without being lame. It’s OK for him to tell this story because English is not his first language, though he speaks it better than most Australians do .
A man is driving in the country and he [...]

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