This last week was a good one but also one in which we stayed home a lot. I can’t say that a lot was done during that time apart from the usual housey type things but thats ok. The biggest thing this week was that I spent four days wearing a heart event monitor to [...]

Tags: dolls house, eat, Family, fun, play, Weekly What List
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WWL time again. Last week was really nice. I had a couple of great surprises including being interviewed by moleskinerie and winning a little facebook comp for a years subscription to Offspring Magazine. I had a couple of friends visit for morning tea and we went out to another friend’s place for lunch one day. [...]

Tags: Art, creativity, drawing, garden, Painting, Weekly What List
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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned an under-painting I did in preparation for a new painting (shown above). All of these are for practicing my oil painting as I try to remember how to use this medium.
Last night I got the paints out again and worked on this painting. Here it is half way [...]

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I thought I should introduce to you the other Etsy shop that I keep mentioning, so here it is. KeLu, which is named after my daughters, will sell only paper products including cards, prints and original paintings. So far the shop has just cards but hopefully I will be able to put together some A4 [...]

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After struggling to get out the oil paints for a couple of weeks, I forced myself to keep pressing ahead with it last night. Its not that I don’t enjoy it, its all the getting things out and having to pack them up again afterwards that is a hassle.
I decided I would focus on [...]

Tags: Art, oil painting, seed pod
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I managed to remember to take a couple of shots of the other paintings I did the other night so here they are.

I singled one of the pods out for this one. The white part is the shininess from the oil which is not dry. Red takes ages to dry!

The burnt sienna painting ready for [...]

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I got the oil paints out again last night and set up a little study to practice on. These are seed pods I gathered in New Norcia last year and they were a vibrant yellow when I first got them. The yellow has dulled but I still painted them as their bright original colour.
This [...]

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Its time again for the Weekly What List. Here’s a review of last week:
Weekly What List for the 22-28 Feb.
Physical
- drink 1 litre of water a day. – mostly
- Eat two pieces of fruit a day – mostly
- Eat less lollies. – epic fail!! Fantales, you are my enemy!
Spiritual
- Go over the same verse and [...]

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So, after getting the paints out after a very long time I laid them all out today to have a good look at what I’ve got. Looks like I’ve got a decent amount until you look very closely.

I laid them out in their brand groupings to see what was there. I’m having trouble remembering what [...]

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So, this afternoon I got the oil paints out (post coming about them after this) again and spent three hours on my peacock feather. Seems like a long time for a small painting but its taking a while for things to click back into place with oils. I am enjoying it though and I suppose [...]

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