OPEN STUDIO

A couple of weeks ago, a group of local artists held 'open studios' on two consecutive weekends. The project was reasonably sucessful for our first attempt, but next time we will need to do more advertising and link it up with other arts activities in the area. However, I enjoyed the opportunity to tidy and sort out my studio and to re visit some of my older art works. This is some of what I unearthed:

"Chatterbox"

Ink, paint on paper, app 40cm x 60cm [frame]

Tiny Treasure

ink, dyed paper fibres, copper wire, app. 5cm x 5 cm [image]

Tiny Treasure

ink, gouache, gold foil, app 5cm x 5cm [image]

Pelican

ink, water colour pencil, app 8cm x 12cm [image]

"Patch"

recycled cotton fabric, tea dyed & stitched, gold foil, app 30cm x 30cm

detail of "Sedimentary"

recycled cotton fabrics, painted, stitched & dyed, app 80cm x 65cm

"Growing Old Gracefully"

recycled paper pulp, iron rust paint, dyed cotton & silk wrapped sticks, 95cm x 45cm

"Approaching Storm"

Acrylics, collaged paper & gold foils, 95cm x 45cm

This was my lovely tidy studio for 10 days.

'Rust to Dust'

Aggh - I am under pressure to complete a workshop proposal by next Saturday, and have no time for blogging. I am in withdrawal, so this is a short, quick post just to let my followers know I am still alive.

This is a recently completed painting I titled 'Rust to Dust' - a bit of reference to the rust glued to the canvas and to the harsh outback landscape in Australia.

It was part of my 'open studio' display on the weekend [more on that later]. I swapped it for some graphic design work from a young friend who is a professional graphic designer - more on that later as well.

A day of PHOTOshopping

 

 Yes, photo shopping is fun, whereas ordinary shopping is such a bore. I find it hard to get out of the house to buy groceries, let alone shop for clothes or consumerist 'stuff' ......ugh....

I had a fun couple of hours with my sister yesterday taking photos for 'piccy comp' - a facebook group thing with this month's theme 'parks and gardens'. We went to the local river/park, where there are lots of waterfalls big and small and plenty of 'chocolate box' scenery.

These are some of my original pics - no photoshopping.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Every day I feel blessed to be living in such a beautiful place.

...and a pretty photoshopped azaelea from my garden to finish off.

Painting again

It has been a busy week - mostly full of designing work for one of our community arts organisations, but amongst it all I managed to do 3 small paintings which I quite like.

'The Mists Rolling In 1 & 2'.

...and 'Billabong'.

I also managed to finish 2 more scarves for a new gallery in Marcoola, near Mt Coolum, called 'Studio 4 Gallery'.

They have an exhibition of lovely paintings by Heather Gall, and they have these 3 paintings, some scarves and jewellery of mine.

art4place
The design work involved coming up with a new name [art4place], a logo, a DL card, an A3 and an A2 poster for our community 'placemaking' arts organisation.

I hope to play with some more painting ideas this week as next weekend I have an 'open studio.

Never a dull moment!

More post cards

...inside 8,

front & back,

inside 9,

front & back,

inside 10,

front & back,

inside 11,

Broken window

My dear elderly neighbour called me over to show me his car. It had been in a bit of an accident and a square steel rod had gone through the rear side window. I sympathised and was told the full story but I couldn't help myself - the pattern of shapes, shadows, colours and textures was beautiful. He knows me well enough to forgive my insensity in taking a photograph. Just as well!!

I played around with the photo and came up with these images.

 

Now, if only I can transfer the image onto canvas with acrylic paint....