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I started painting some burnt bark as a back drop but it went horribly wrong and the black paint mixed with a little white gave it a sheen. The more I started to work this painting the worse it got, even adding colour didn’t save it.
Australia Zoo Markets were 3.5hrs drive from home and as we got closer to the zoo it was apparent that the 0% chance of rain may not happen. The clouds stared to build and its was getting darker the closer we got to the zoo, then it started to rain half an hour from the zoo.
I’ve spent most of the day framing postcards and wrapping everything in bubblewrap for the markets tomorrow. I can’t believe what I have created in the past two weeks, once you see it all spread out on the table.
A few months ago I photographed this kingfisher at Mon Repos beach Queensland, in the afternoon setting sun. Since I was in an open area it was a little more difficult to photograph this shy bird and I mush have walked a few kms.
After I finished Audrey the chicken portrait, one of my sisters friends asked me if I could paint her dog Minnie. I after we agreed on a photo that would look good we just needed a better angle of the body and another shot of her favourite hair bow.
I will highlight the Australia Zoo Market collection in this blog as they will be available on 1st August 2020 at the Australia Zoo carpark, along with my postcards.
Back in January I went for a walk on Mon Repos Beach 5mins from my mums bed and breakfast. Mon Repos is famous for turtle laying, where people come from all over the world to watch this night time activity.
To be honest this painting scared me a little. I’d been putting off painting anything with scale as I thought I wasn’t good enough yet but my cousin gave me the push I needed.
Unfortunately my real exhibition at Gatakers Artspace was cancelled due to Covid19, so I have created a short video so you can now view my artworks virtually from the comfort of your own home.
This was one of the best family holidays I’ve had, we also got plenty of walking in as it’s a 10km hike around the base of Uluru.
I just love the trees in this area, I must have taken 100’s of photos from different angle of various contorted trees, all expressing themselves with dramatic poses.
I was visiting a friend in the blue mountains because I had skills she needed, I was helping erect a fence for the chickens.
The weather was very windy which made painting outdoors quite difficult and people loved to stop by and have a chat, which I really enjoyed.
Painting out doors has its advantages and disadvantages but what I found was people loved to stop by and see what I was doing.
Well these three finches were certainly spread over Australia and photographed over a span of 4years of traveling and camping holidays.
I’m loving the thin brush with the really long bristles for painting long smooth strokes found in grass and twigs.
The bower bird builds its nest out of twigs and collects anything it can find that has shades of blue.
The red backed wren was photographed at Australia Zoo last year when I was walking around Bindi Island.
The koalas fur starts off like a squirrel and seem to change further down the body and almost become more like the wool of a sheep.
Watching the bushfire concert and deciding to paint a burnt tree stump gave me the idea to name this painting the Bushfire Galah.
This beautiful specimen of a bird was perched on the branch looking rather fluffy having just had a bath in the nearby creek.
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