For my very own personal development I enrolled in a class of Contemporary Ink drawing with Anna Hoyle.
After some works of marlene dupas – not quirky like hers though.
I wondered what we could do in three hours but it just flew by very quickly.
I have posted some photos of a newish coffee shop in High Street Preston/Thornbury that I have visited a couple of times. Mothers Day was extremely noisy though.
Hope you like my explorations and will let me know if you have any tips on using ink.
Happy Mothers Day (Australia). I have posted a very funny cartoon from our daily newspaper. I’m so glad I am over the Mum, Mum, Mum, Mum bit and luckily they haven’t as yet forgotten me.
paint, thickener, collage, acrylic, ….
Paint, collage, abstract, scratch, …
Funny sentiment probably true.
Here is Ninna my Kelpie all nice and silky and clean.
There is a new business in my area called Big & Small Dog Grooming (Ivanhoe). Holly runs it and she is wonderful with humans and animals alike – my Ninna just loved the experience (minus the blower to dry her).
Vicki guessed the wall location.
I had so much fun with offering a small collage prize to anyone that could guess the location of the wall that I photographed and posted recently. It was a wordpress thing but unfortunately it is difficult as many followers are from overseas. I also posted it on my old high school wall and my facebook. Vicki guessed several streets and eventually named it as Langridge Street – it was correct. She asked me to send her prize to her mother for mothers day so I had to search for something to make her smile as alot of my collages are sometimes a bit surreal. The little framed otter woman is what I am sending. By the way I have never met Vicki and I finished high school eons ago.
Here is my pup, now 8 months old at the park with a wooden egg sculpture in the background and a painting I just decided to hang – I think I made it a couple of years ago.
I am offering a small character collage to the first person to identify the location of this wall in Collingwood (Melb).
A new adjustment.
If you read my last post – dog brushed up against this drawing and ruined the pristine white so I inked it and now I have blacked it. Getting there, still thinking and looking at what else I can do to it.
Clue = Close to Fitzroy, ask if you need more clues.
My dog dragged her dirty body against a drawing that I spent more than 12 hours on.
I was thinking that the composition was not working so well with this drawing so the dog just made me look at some options. I have inked the dirty background – dont love it – still looking to either paint it out, cut it up etc..
As you can see my studio is a mess – I did some surface preparation for an abstract painting.
A little art collage blended with my gorgeous neice Julia.
A little collage assemblage to make a digital card for my gorgeous neice.
I added a new page – Art Workshops and I made a small painting today and am very happy with the result.
Acrylic and pencil on paper.
I have also created a new page for Workshops in Art – hope it is of interest as it is something I love to do.
Also added a few new images to my Gallery.
I’m in the mood for painting. Haven’t done it for quite a while so I am playing on paper, on newspaper, scribbling on top of it, mixing it etc. So I am just getting to know it again.
migrants
This little people sculpture was made about 10 years ago – I emptied an old trunk and found lots of them. I have framed several of my pencil drawings and am very happy with the selection because it needed to be subtle to suit the drawing.
Ninna my Kelpie dog is almost 7 months old now. Soooo very energetic, needs lots of walks and company.
Excess paint doodle on newspaper
As I mentioned I am in the zone for painting however I will need much more preparation. I have been very ambitious and have ordered a stretched canvas in quite a large size. I need to let loose and have some fun.
I saw a lovely movie last night called Seraphine.
I’m wondering if everyone except me has seen the movie Seraphine.
It was a gorgeous movie with the lead of servant/artist played so sensitively and so warmly by Yolande Moreau.
I have now been introduced to the art of Seraphine as well as acting of Moreau – such a treat on a night of not much on TV tonight. In Australia this is a foreign film with English subtitles.
Yolande Moreau the french actress playing Seraphine.
