Misc

Learning to Love Legumes

I’m not a fan of chickpeas, lentils split peas and their ilk. I’ll admit that right up front. I’d like to love them and have jars of dried legumes cluttering up my kitchen;…

Small

Lately, I’ve been spending most of my creative time making maternity clothes – basic stuff to get me through a maternity winter and not worth of getting a blog post together for……

Date Night

Chris and I loved Power Works at the Tasmanian Botanical Gardens last night. Now I want some sound and light installations in my own backyard!

Some Acquisitions

And a Triptich to Round it off

Design 2

Design 1

I’ve produced the first design for my ‘Batch of Five’.

My Favourite Film

Nothing much to say tonight. I have been up since 5am (Australia progressed to the next round of the World Cup! !!!! !!!) and then spent most of the day driving all over Gippsland…

Another Inexplicable Day

Encouraged

Idea Rich - Skill Poor

Babushka Boxes

Bird Play

Tuesday I've got birdys on my mind

Oh - I was feeling a little smug

A Little Post

Textiles? A bit of a ramble

Back to our regularly scheduled program

The Dredger was juried into Fabricate. YAY! Even though I was in two minds about submitting my art for public exhibition, I am pleased that the jury selected my work, and not only…

Ice Tray, Away Away Away

Colour Craving

The Church

Pot 'o' pencils

My pencils live in this Raku fired pot (which I made!) I received the pencils as a Christmas present from my mother, I think I was 15. My mother moved away when I was three and my…

EDM - Self portrait

The Everyday Matters drawing challenge this week is – Self Portrait. EDM – Self Portrait on my birthday I drew this from a photograph because I wanted to turn the photo upside…

The Fabric

I’m done with the dyeing, now the quilt can start. You would not believe how happy this makes me. I was starting to feel the project slipping away and I really want to see this…

Clean Clean Clean

It feels sort of boring posting a pencil only drawing, no colour. But I don’t want to paint in this journal. EDM #54 – Someone I Love Chris watching Alpine Skiing on telly. This…

Draw a Mouth

Everyday Matters – Draw a mouth: No one said the colours had to be realistic… where’s the fun in that? LOL I had lots of dodgy attempts at this topic. I won’t be showing my duds…

Can you believe it?

This is TINY applique, tiny tiny crazy cutting. A miniature prototype, a practice piece for BIG ONE Last night I got a crazy urge to try out the design for the dredger quilt in…

Dredger

photo screen print of the dredger: veiw of the underside I screen printed this image of the Dredger mainly to see just how much detail I could get using the photo screen print…

Getting ready for a screen printing workshop

I’m doing a photo screen printing workshop tommorow at the Latrobe Regional Gallery. I’m not entirely sure what sort of images are suitable, so I’ve been playing around with some…

What the hell is she up to now!?!

Layer 1: Charcoal Forest. Paper template half ripped off I killed the pod quilt. I overdosed it with a thick layer of icky green acrylic paint. It seemed like a good idea at the…

Here Fishy Fishy Fishy

I like the ‘water’ stitching. The fish started out as a scrible that looked sorta fish shaped, so I gave him a big eye, better fins and painted him up. Riscy and I are car…

The Resolution

A quiltlet. Ink and watercolour and STITCHING 7.5cm x 12.5cm. Yeah Baybeee! The Resolution: Get back to the stuff that floats my boat… the stitch, quilting, embroidery, fabric and…

Aquisition and a bit of knitting

I treated myself this year. I bought Angels in Stone from Dijanne Cevaal. Dijanne is a well known textile artist in Australia and I’m very pleased that we have been able to…

Tinkering

This scan doesn’t accurately represent the metalic parts of this assembly, but I quite like the effect I get here anyway. I cut up and painted (then rubbed) the edges of foil BBQ…

My Favouite Restaurant Reborn!

Today we found out that our favourite restaurant, Rasa Satay, which closed about 3 years ago, has come back as Rasa Thai!!! Same owner, new chefs, and located in the next town…

Contour drawings and some flowers

I’ll start out with my first modified contour drawing: Maryellen (who left a comment yesterday) could you please email me by clicking the ‘Contact Me’ section on the right hand…

Blind Contour Hilarity

First a thing of beauty: A couple of big clumps of agapanthus in my garden are just about to burst into bloom. Look at all the stems! Something that I often overlook is how…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…