Addiction to stitchin’

After a brief and hilarious piggy-back incident with a small but weighty miss Z the other day I have injured my arm.  I think it’s my elbow, and what is required is rest.
It’s driving me nutso.
The past months and month have been spent curled up on the sofa stitching a quilt for her, and I’m [...]

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All I want…

We live in a house.
We live in a big old house.
We live in a big old house with high ceilings.
We live in a big old house with high ceilings that hasn’t been painted for at least 20 years.
We live in a big old house with high ceilings that hasn’t been painted for a least 20 [...]

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Rosy Rabbit

If you came here expecting a softie I apologise….

Miss Rosy Rabbit posed at Dr Sketchy last night – and it was a lot of fun.  So good to be out drawing.  I missed it enormously.

Hurrah!

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Daily sketching

I’m very active on the Australian Art Forum.  It’ a great place to discuss ideas, techniques and get feedback and encouragement from other artists of all levels.
We run a monthly challenge – and the challenge for September will be be to post a sketch every day.  Nothing fancy, or careful – just a doodle or [...]

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Say what?

Are you sitting?
Some people have no idea what a blog is, and it doesn’t matter to them at all.
Say what?
Blogging (reading and writing) has become such a part of my life that I just can’t comprehend how it isn’t a daily part of some peoples life.  I love to skip around the world in five [...]

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The HUGE ferris wheel as seen from the Bolte Bridge on the way to Mt Macedon yesterday.
I am cheerful, and pensive, full of ‘to-do’ lists and promises to self and others.  Excited about painting, and about not having to paint. And generally happy to be alive.
We are on the cusp of spring and I can [...]

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the old man underpants

There is something fantastically mysterious about vintage textiles.  Sometimes they retain something of the wearer.  Sometimes the wearer is mysteriously absent and only the mystery remains.
While frolicking a few weeks back, in excellent company, in my favourite Japanese textile store I unearthed a mysterious treasure.

Dark steel-blue grey, with long ties, a rigid panel, a fascinating [...]

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She talks to trees

She talks to trees. 2008 Oil on linen. 51cm x 51cm
New work from me.

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self-portrait wednesday

Looking inwards, looking outwards, and looking forward to an opportunity to combine the delicious suggestions of Catherine and Alison and uncoil the big black ball to see what is inside.  Slowly and meditatively while being quiet and listening to the muse – I wonder where she is.
Happy me .
Guess the mystery object anyone?

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Development

Every so often – in the creative life there will be a little period where you make a breakthrough – or take off in a slightly different direction that feels good and right at the time.
Sometimes you will find yourself at the end of that small leg of the journey, turn around to catch your [...]

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