Winner!
Handspun Article – First! Handspun Skein – First! PLUS Best in Class (fancywork) for Kirishawl. I am totally chuffed. Riscy took me out for dinner tonight to celebrate! The firsts…
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Journal archive
November 2005
From the journal archive.
20 entries
Reflections
These charcoal and pastel pieces remind me of reflections you can get on road surfaces at night when it is wet. I also scratched and errased the surface, taking the top layer of…
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I'm Back
I’ve been up since 4am, but awake for way longer since my flight was at 6am … you know, when you need to wake up really early and you are afraid you will sleep through the alarm…
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Away Away
I’m flying to Tasmania tonight. I’m not packed and oh so slightly panicked… so I’d better start list making. I have to go to work this morning but I think I’ll leave earlier than…
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I can see this will be a rush
I just spent an hour and a half producing a heap of shit. I ripped off the worst bit and present the rest to you as ClaArProMo No 22. Melanie Testa linked to this amazing site…
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Quickly
I’m posting this very quickly in my lunch hour. I did this monoprint the other night after I blogged the other ones. I think it is probably the best of all of them. Last night I…
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A little bit of art, a little bit of Cricket
I also decided to try out the Hahnemuhle paper for relief printing. As mentioned before, it is a soft paper with a fair amount of texture. This is an image taken from a magazine.…
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Warning
Never linocut when tired or under the influence of a glass of wine because mistakes will be made and tears will be shed. So, I decided to do some little paintings. Riscy’s foot…
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Ink Drawing - Branches
I am dead tired, but wanted to share today’s creative endeavour with you. I love looking at stylised vegetation in rug design etc, and I’ve been meaning to do some of my own for…
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Paper Paper Everywhere
As indicated above, the PAPER has arrived. As expected, there is HEAPS of it. As feared, the Dutch Etching Paper is not as smooth as I need to pick the detail on my monoprinting…
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Injury, triumph and a little bit of creativity
In an effort to bring more colour to ClaArProMo I cracked open the watercolour for the first time in ages 🙂 And I think this brings me a third of the way there We won our second…
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I'm way behind
I don’t like the above piece, it was good to practice some techniques out, but it is about nothing, of nothing and doesn’t work for me at all. But, since I’m 7 pieces behind my…
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More Monoprint
My sister and I have an informal postcard swap happening and I owe her one: I woke up this morning with a very sore neck and shoulder. I lasted half a day at work before I called…
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Monoprinting Rocks!!!
I knocked off work at 3pm yesterday so I could get my entry form in for the Traralgon Agricultural Show. I’m entering the Homespun section, my Kiri shawl and a skein of wool (yet…
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ClaArProMo Exhibit # 4
Yes people, I reckon Nick Cave (and the bad seeds)albums are perfect in every way . If you see it, snap up his double album Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus. When I was at…
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Charcoal Delight
I’m loving this challenge I have set for myself. I couldn’t spend as much time on it as I would have liked tonight. We had our first game of touch footy for the season… first…
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Collage
ClaArProMo No 2 😛 A few years ago Riscy bought me a subscription to National Geographic. It had been my total favourite magazine when I was a teenager, our school had hundreds of…
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ClaArProMo
My plans for a weekend of printmaking have all but halted. I spoke to the ‘person in question’ on Friday, and she is not keen for me to use the workshop for various reasons, I…
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Busy Saturday
Today was beautiful. The sun was out, and it was a great day to spend in the garden catching up on all that weeding. Riscy mowed and I commented that the garden REALLY did look…
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NaNoWriMo
Have you heard of National Novel Writing Month? Starting 1 November (today) and ending 30 November you write a novel or 50,000 words of a novel (which ever comes first) I’ve…
DyeingRead entry