The fun Twitter Art Exhibit this year is in Stratford Upon Avon in the UK. The exhibition runs from the 1st to 19th April. The charity being supported this year (by sales of the art postcards) is Molly Olly’s Wishes, who do brilliant work for children with terminal or serious illness by making their ‘wishes’…
Category: art
Summer Threads and a Nude
I’m staying at my mother’s house at the moment and I found one of my old sketchbooks from 2009. It’s always interesting looking through what you’ve done. Seeing any threads that you weren’t consciously aware of but that later developed more fully. One thread that I don’t really paint is the nude. Here’s a female…
Feng Shuiing the Studio
It’s been a pretty intense couple of weeks. Full of ups and downs. (And then Prince died… thankyou for the music Prince.) Getting spiked by a falling Aloe Vera I suddenly became obsessed with ‘feng shuiing’ the house, (I don’t know if there is such a word but it sounds like you’re shooing things away-…
Always there like a great friend…
Here’s what the local landscape’s been like with the recent snow snap. Just beautiful.
Penguin suits on the way to Estonia
We’re just in Estonia- a small, beautiful country on the Baltic Sea- for a couple of weeks for holidays. I’m not quite used to having holidays in the middle of the year, being from Australia, and keep having fleeting feelings like it’s Christmastime. On the ferry last night they had some children’s entertainers dancing in…
Watercolor Mania
Watercolour. It’s hard. You feel overwhelmed sometimes when you’re trying something new. I’m trying to find the spot where I can express my vision. The spot which is the balance between realism and abstraction in relation to the subject. So there’s a bit of variety in style with the images at the moment. I looked at…
Tasmanian Tiger in Tassie
The thylacine or more commonly the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. It’s now extinct (1936). The photo of the stuffed tiger was recently taken by my uncle on a visit to the Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia, which by all accounts is meant…
A Dream Of Water in February
On February 14, 2014 there is a sound healing day for the planet. It’s initiated by Jonathan Goldman who’s a sound healing pioneer. But this year as he writes in the article below, a special part of the healing is for the healing of the waters of the planet. healingsounds.com | A Dream Of Water….
Aqua Sea and Rocks in Chania, Crete, Greece
Aqua Sea and Rocks in Chania, Crete, Greece, a photo by sawelli on Flickr. Oh the sea! How I love you. The sea in Crete was a real surprise. You see the pictures in magazines and you think there’s probably a bit of exaggeration. Well it’s not. It’s just so beautiful. The water so aqua…
Summer Synchronicity at Jan Juc Beach, Australia
Summer Synchronicity at Jan Juc Beach, Australia, a photo by sawelli on Flickr. I love this beach. The openness of the space. The immensity of the cliffs. The waves. It’s right next to Bells Beach where they have the famous international surfing competition every year. Though most of the time the waves aren’t that big…
