Just my imagination

So I have been working non stop on the artwork you see above, it is my submission for the open Cairns Regional Gallery exhibition, which I shall submit tomorrow.  I'm not really sure where it came from, I haven't really done anything like it before, but in hindsight it makes a lot of sense, it is a way for me to mix my love of crochet with portraiture painting/drawing.  The concept was inspired by the 'drunken monkey' as Buddhists use as a metaphor for the mind.  Hundreds of thoughts enter my mind within a minute I feel sometimes, and it probably isn't that good for me.  Having said that, as I often think about, often the thought of something is the most exciting part, anticipating a great event.  This is where this girl is at, it is her aura if you like.  Wish me luck in getting this piece picked xx. 

Things that make me happy

• Looking at photos of my childhood
• Receiving lovely letters/text messages in my mail box
• Looking at pictures that remind me of a time and a place
• Redecorating my room
• Pretty red things
• A lovely new dress
• Concerts at the Tanks
• Lunch at the Lilipad Cafe
• Sweet dates
• A warm cup of vanilla tea
• A long chat with Ash and the funny things that she says like "Chay" & "true dat!" in context of coarse
• The sun
• A friendly black cat
• Socks on my feet (don't ask)
• Listening to music with sentiment
• Pretty vintage finds
• My envelope necklace from Melbourne
• Late night cuddles
• Campfires with marshmellows

Hot Wax

I just thought I would share my latest artwork from my painting class.  It is executed in encaustic style (pigments with hot wax), which is a medium I have never worked with before.  At first it looked very silly with the skin looking more like a mud mask, and so I scraped off my first layer of wax and created a motley mess of coloured wax. From here I carved lines into it of my original composition - a portrait of Selma Blair (she'd be horrified!) and finally rubbed some oil colours onto the then dry wax to make the composition more obvious.  Its funny because I swore I would never try this medium again and that I hated it, but I recieved so many compliments about it that my opinion is starting to sway about it. Maybe with more control over my colour choices and more interesting composition this medium could really work for me! Hey its just a thought xx.

One Two Three Four

... tell me that you love me more xx. 

Challenges of the Unknown

So what happens next? I have to start again, and truthfully I probably should have months ago now.  I have gotten too comfortable and I haven't been progressing in my work.  Just as some wonderful things have been happening for me- the markets and new persons in my life,  I have a setback.  Well isn't this familiar?  To be honest it is both liberating and scary, but hey it is just a page in my story.  Almost ready to turn a new chapter, and maybe even start a whole new book in the not so distant future xx.

Carnival on Collins

Down to the Market

So today with my partner in crime (Miss Ashton Rigg) at the "top of the morning" otherwise known as 5:30am we packed the car full of colourful handmade goodness made by yours truely, including beanies, cards, wrist cuffs, cuppie-cakes and some of our preloved jewellery, clothing and CD's for the punters, who were lovely enough to show up.  Overall the day was pretty miserable due to unwelcomed rain and impressive competition, but honestly I loved it, and should be marketing much more.  I sold lots of cards, clothes, shoes, jewellery and two artworks, which makes me one very happy girly.  Gotta love those tanks xx. 

Amateur

Learning to photograph things quickly, slowly and cleverly xx. 

Liquid Salvation

Yes indeed myself and my partner in crime and all things good Ash attended timeout.  My highlights would have to be Faker's 'This Heart Attack' where we jumped up and down with a crowd of thousands in perfect unison, best feeling ever! I loved Blue King Brown, some talented folk, especially for the funky beats of 'water'.  Finally, the band I have liked the longest out of those who performed, Kisschasy who I had listened to whilst road tripping down the east coast to Byron Bay performed the ubber fun 'Do-oh's and wo-oh's'.  But mostly we indulged in a healthy amount of people watching- the clothes, the hair, the body language and the uninhibited dancing. 

Umbrella-ella-eh

I liked the studio lights in my Photography class so much that I decided to include them in my compositions xx.