Its been a long time since I have entered an exhibition. I manaaged to get organised enough to enter into my art societies November one this year with three works. Two of them are acrylic (Wattle and Sunset) and one is oil (The River). I haven’t been able to enter anything much this year focusing […]
Art
Miniature Paintings
Back in June I mentioned these miniature canvases that I found and recently I have painted many more. As you can see from the picture above there are around 15 for sale at the moment but I have also decided to take commissions for these. This is the blurb I wrote to go with the […]
New Brochure
I have been trying everything online that I can think of to get my art out there into the big wide world. Tweeting will bring in views for my paintings but no actual sales. I am taking a new angle this week starting with the creation of a flyer advertising my online presence. I am […]
Busy Bee
I’ve been quite the busy artist over the last few months. Acrylic painting has been the main focus and I have been uploading quite a few paintings to BlueThumb. I have really enjoyed digging into my photo archives from our various road trips and using them as references for new work. Here’s a few paintings […]
Miniature Artwork Motivation
A few weeks ago I was shopping with my girls and noticed these unusual canvases. Normally I don’t buy tiny canvases but these ones have magnets on the back so I was intrigued. If you have read my last blog post you may have seen that I was finding it hard to find my motivation […]
John Olsen, The You Beaut Country
Last week while my Mum was visiting Sydney we were able to go along to the John Olsen retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW. My knowledge of John Olsen’s work was limited before going. I had seen his work in documentaries and books but I probably wouldn’t have remembered his name if I […]
Plein Air Painting
Over the school holidays I had a few opportunities to practice my outdoor painting skills (which need ‘brushing up’). I don’t do this a lot although I have done it here and there over the years. Our first stop was the town of Wangi Wangi on the north coast of NSW. Despite the terrible windy […]
Inky Fingers
A very long time ago……yes in what feels like a different galaxy I learned how to do the basics of printmaking including linocut. That was back when I did a two year TAFE course in Art and Design, when I was first married. The only other time I had anything to do with printmaking was […]
Local Artists Who Have Inspired Me
Just over 4 years ago we moved to Sydney and very soon afterwards I got stuck in to seeking out local artists. Some of them I stumbled across on the net and others I found myself in the same art competitions with. Of the four I want to highlight, I have only met two and […]
Wordy Paintings
A few weeks ago I was asked if I would like to have a stall at the upcoming Fellowship of Congregational Women’s Seminar in October. I was quite excited to say yes as I have very few artistic goals this year and I really needed something to aim at. Not only that, but half of […]