Epic oil

Well epic for me anyhow. Ive been tackling this one on and off for a while now. I do a bit, then it gets on my goat. Its pretty tight, but hey Im still getting used to this oils caper. It will be called "Zella of Florentinos" - the woman Zella (awesome name- so suits her) runs Florentinos, a great cafe filled with interesting things she has collected, artworks and poems and artifacts; and serves great coffee and food. Its always busy! Zella is beautiful and intriguing- strength mixed with frailty, and I suspect many interesting stories from life to tell.

New Year?

K so not so sure what the year is going to hold...never am. But got a commissioned portrait on the go (good start), and have some plans boiling away on the back burner. Im never short of ideas. Perhaps a slighty larger portion of discipline wouldnt go astray!
For now its school hols and so plenty of distraction around - its always difficult to do a great amount with kidlets underfoot. Not good for concentration or production.
But the beach is BEAutiful and were enjoying a splendid summer in SA!
Will keep you posted!

Stop Press!

This is a momentous occasion. I am actually updating my blog...crazy I know! So...havent really had access to the net and havent written a thing on here for nearly twelve months. But all thats history. This year I have managed to pick up a couple of minor awards, made a few painting sales....not too shabby. Been working on an oil that gets fitted in between other more pressing demands. I shall upload a pic shortly. Todays big achievements included figuring out how to get back into here as I could not for the life of me remember what my password was, but even worse, what email addy I had used to set up the account. Kind of problematic. The other great achievement today was catching 6 crabs....yeah! Just down the road. Din dins.

New oil painting

I have once again embarked on the more tedious of painting projects; a portrait in oils. This is only my second oil painting so Im learning as I go, but quite enjoy the process...how you think its as good as you can get it, and walk away, only to pick up the brush the next day and find many ways to tweak, and many tones to refine. So this is a work in progress, and I will post another picture when I have completed it, but hope you enjoy a squiz at it thus far. Its my daughter Elodie, being gorgeous as usual.

Painting...finally

Hey to all my non-existant readers and 3 followers who may or may not read this. Its highly unexciting to everyone else really, but just thought I would add to my quiet little blog, that I am painting today....finally. Havent in a while, so its worth noting for me!
Next hurdle...will it work...
Got a few things going on...hanging out on Mondays in Spiritus. Putting some stuff in an art sale in Nov. Looking forward to getting some fresh paintings out and about.
Anyhow, thats my big news.

Opening of "Spiritus" Gallery in Yack

Had a great night at the opening of Spiritus - a new art craft gallery in Yackandandah. Heaps of people attended and it seems many are suprised to find that I paint! Or at least they seem pleasantly surprised that I paint well! I have a few things in there so anyone who wants an arvo drive can head up and check it out.
It was a really good night for Yack, so good to have something new and "arty" and I wish Christine and David all the best!

Finished!!

Yay! So its been paint brushes down for one day, and now Im madly packing for Melbourne but cant wait for some chilling time after this insane endeavour! Im totally spent! Four weeks of painting between things like the of last week of term school activities, then school hols, two lots of family visiting and my American friend Rachel visiting presently! Needless to say I feel very much like I have run a marathon...not joking. I am losing it. Just ask Rachel. And Brett. And for those who are interested, whilst I appreciated the advice to go see a movie...I didnt have a car so I went for a walk and had a sleep. Is that still ok? And then I went to a movie on Saturday. So there was a breather in there somewhere. :)
Will let you know what it is like to have a painting at a media launch for a new CD...stay tuned. Oh, and there will be some birds in the final installation, which dont appear here, because that will all be attached on site...but will take some pics and post my "artist statement" so my hundreds of followers can trip out over that.