Merry Christmas

 

 

 

 

Well, it's Christmas - again!  This year has gone so fast for me, too much happening.  I have had a lot more success with my art this year and have got a lot more done, which is good, considering I have illnesses that limit my productive time.  I sold two big drawings at Willunga Gallery and I hope their new owners are happy with them!

 

I'm actually looking forward to Christmas Day, considering I am an introverted type of person.  Looking forward to wonderful food and just sitting around in the sun and enjoying my family and especially my little niece and nephew (they are so much fun).

 

Hope you all have a great Christmas whether alone or with others!

 

 



Cats and Halloween

'Ghost Kitties'

Prismacolor Pencil on Moleskine Sketchbook Paper.

So, it's Halloween.  Halloween hasn't ever really been a thing here in Australia.  It's only starting to catch on the past couple of years I reckon.  I really appreciate the meaning and history of it but the fun part of it is great too. 

I liked the idea of cat ghosts.  For some reason I feel like my cat is a reincarnation of my first pony, Tina.  Their personalities are so similar it's scary sometimes.

Hope everyone has a safe and spooky Halloween! (Or not spooky if you don't like spooky.)

Special

Prismacolor Pencil on A4 Moleskine Journal Paper

Hi there!  Yes, can't keep away from cats, I don't know why, considering horses are my first love.  How this drawing came about is a bit of a long story.  I wasn't feeling well and my cat had turned into Veruca Salt and I seemed to be surrounded by 'special snowflake' behaviour in other people which in turn made me confront my own 'snowflake syndrome' issues. This made me think of that great 'You are not special!...' line from Fight Club(and chuckle to myself).  And anyway... this drawing popped into my head and then all the frustration inside me was resolved and all was well with the world.  Phew... the end.

Play With Me

Hi there!  A new animal drawing.  It's kind of an updated version of a drawing I did last year of a cat and birds.  I was going for more detail.  I found it hard not to make the cat look evil in a 'play with me, I want to eat you' kind of way.  I'm endlessly fascinated with the relationship between cats and birds.  My cat is constantly being harassed by the birds in my yard and I love the little cat language meows she uses to communicate with them.  I think I'll try to find out more info about that.

This drawing is around about A4 size and is coloured pencil on Arches Hot Press paper.

  

Summer Rain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anointing: Summer Rain

61cmW x 76cmH

 

 

Hi there :)  Another mixed media piece to post.  I had fun with this one.  I was trying to capture the heat and light of late summer combined with rain.  I love the smell of rain on a hot day. 

On another level, it's kind of about the cleansing power of water and fire.  The flame cleanses like water, it's not hot, it's cooling, as it cleanses and rejuvenates. 

 Also I have this thing about inner light or an inner flame.  I think I'm preoccupied with this because at times I've felt the fire go out in me.

 

I made this piece with old newspaper, patterned paper, pencil, crayon and acrylic paints.

 

 

Mixed Media

 

 

 

 

Her Heart Is Good As New

41cm W x 51cm H

Mixed media on canvas.

 

Hi there :)  I said a while ago that I was experimenting with mixed media.  This painting is one of the ones I am most happy with.  I had a lot of disasters, including gel medium splitting for some reason and going all goopy (yuck), which completely ruined a work I really liked.  Oh well. 

I was happy with the colours on this one but the mixed media background may have too much going on for my liking.  I'm still learning and really enjoying the random messiness of it all, considering I used to be addicted to being neat and tidy with my art.  I wish I could be that tidy round my house :)

 

 

 

Cat

 

 

 

 

Yes, it's another cat.  This series of small grey animals are not personal work but are being made to produce fridge magnets for Willunga Gallery.  I have a couple more to go.

 

 

 

Lamb

 

 

 

 

 

 

Continuing on the grey animal theme.  I've never really seen a grey sheep so I decided to make a white sheep with shadowing.  It has a night time theme which was appropriate for some insomnia problems that were really doing my head in :(  Thankfully in the past few days the insomnia righted itself and I got some blissful night time sleep at last - yay :).  I think I still have a hangover from all the festivities and grief that was packed into three months the beginning of this year.  I'm not really big on drama, I like a quiet life and I love solitude.  I'm looking forward to a weekend of listening to the rain come down(hopefully), my plants so need it.

 

 

Tomatoes

 

 

Coloured pencil on paper.

 

 

 

Wow, it's been soooooo hot here this week!  Today reached 44C(which is 111.2F) and of course I had to go to Adelaide today, I think it was cooler at home.  It's going to be 46C tomorrow.  The heat feels as red as the tomatoes I have drawn.  Lucky I have a portable air conditioner which does a good enough job of cooling my place down.

 

Trying to get back into the swing of things after Christmas-New Year chaos.  Attempting to do more art but most times lately my mental illness gets in the way.  Have kind of remedied that by taking an extra small dose of medication during the day.  I'm a little bit more drowsy but I can live with that for now.

 

Moving on to something happy.  I drew the tomatoes a while ago and I really enjoyed it.  I love the skin on tomatoes, it's so soft and has a wonderful glow.  I love the depth of colour.  I think I'll try another fruit or vegetable next, see how I go.