here's some I made earlier!

Trust, soon to be for sale!

'The Magpie Gaurdians', not for sale, private collection of the artist

Painting update

Hi all my 142 followers, hope you are all well, happy and creating !!!
Busy, busy week ahead for me I have to finish three paintings before the end of the week so I will be on track for when I leave on the 28th of this month....I'm not going far but I'm doing something that I've wanted to do for years...but more about that later!

here is a little peek at Alice

oh is that the Red Queens head lying there by Alice's feet? I think it might be.
Apart from my Alice project I've been painting flat out to try and finish my paintings for the online course I'm doing at Suzi Blu's. So far so good. Today I finished my "Day of the Dead" painting. It's about my little orange kitty that passed away 4 years ago. Lots of images, found rusty objects and wax.
Last week my wood burning tool arrived so I got to work on another 'Petit Angels' in love.
A bit cute, I know but you see I have to balance both sides to my nature.....

my Goth Angel!! Took me a while to work out just what I wanted in this painting and I think now I'm happy with my idea. Better run, wish me luck on my quest of finishing these three...or 4 or 5 paintings!!

All waxed up!

My little drummer is finished! here is the final photo with some detailed shots. Enjoy the waxy fun!!

Thank you for the lovely comments every one. Jess, I think you are right about watermarking photos. I have had a few problems with people using my work and re-working the images. I've written to the offenders but have not had any reply's.
One of my brothers has done a lot of work with 'Creative Commons' and I think it is a fantastic idea. But I really dislike those people that use your work without your permission!

caught up in mixed media

He Marches To The Sound Of His Own Drum

There is NO WAY that anybody will be seeing photos of my studio for the next few months/years!!

I'm just so hooked on making these little mixed media paintings that nothing and I mean nothing gets chucked out without me at least pondering ways to use it in some way. I have always been bad at throwing things away. feathers, stamps, bits of paper, dried up insects, rusty nails and bottle tops, bottles, bits of string, old cardboard, broken crockery, dried leaves, shells, drift wood, scraps of fabric....have I left anything out??? Well now I have a use for them, well maybe not the dried insects, they are too special!

So now not only do I knit, paint, sew, make dolls, sketch, lino print in my studio I now have to find room for my mixed media work! BF has promised me to make some shelves...I told him I neeeeed lots of shelves, but I think he knew that already.

So this little guy is nearly finished, sometimes it helps to look at your images on the computer so you can see how it's going.

I can see his ear needs a bit of work, his shoes could stand out a bit more....don't know whether I should put text in there or not???.....Some areas could still be lighter....maybe hammer a few rivets and melt a bit of wax. What do you think?

changes, and painting

Like I have nothing better to do than playing on my blog....but I really, really wanted a big new header for the top of my page. I'll see if I still like it tomorrow may change it a bit as the weeks go by. Its autumn you see and I feel a change in the air!
yes I've been painting!!! A bit at the time. I've started blocking in a bit more detail and cleaning up the rough line work. I do tend to paint rather tight but always start off very loose.
Fat Kitty has a lot of colors in her fur so I've slowly been adding oranges and browns. Ned is very gray but has a hit of cream around his eyes and forehead. I've also fixed up their proportions and painted them standing a little closer, (there is now way that this would ever happen in real life!) The back ground will be left fairly simple. The green border will get some sort of patterning.
It's very helpful looking at the photo's on the blog as it puts the painting into another environment and you can start to see whats working and what's not.
Another good technique is to turn the painting upside down or view it in front of a mirror.

painting update

Blocking in colors adding a green border.
It's been a bit of a hectic few days so not much painting has been achieved. I have the whole night to myself and if I'm not lured by my new DVD of the latest Batman movie then maybe a bit of painting. :)

The Russian Funeral

I'm often surprised by a painting of mine when I haven't seen it for so long. I try to remember why I painted it and what was going on in my life around this time.
The death of Brezhnev and my father seemed to have coincided around the same time. I remember watching on TV the funeral of Brezhnev and being moved by the solemnity of it. My father was born in to Russian parents, although on his birth certificate it states he is Yugoslavian, as that's where he was born. But according to him it was only because his mother happened to be in Yugoslavia at the time.
I never really understood him and I never got the chance to ask him all the questions that I wanted to ask him after he had died when I was older. In a way this painting became a homage to my Russian bloodline and to him.

It's an odd painting even for me. The faces are of my relatives that I found in old black and white photo's from my dad. The old women on the left grieving sometimes looks like the dead mans mother and other times I think of her as his wife. I was never sure who the person was watching on on, hiding amongst the trees, I have a little inkling that maybe it was my fathers estranged brother...but who knows. Very strange!

Still painting??

the never ending painting!!

a work in progress....this is a painting I started recently. it was worked off a sketch that I drew quite a few years ago when I lived in Melbourne near Williams Town.

Because the top painting is taking so long to finish I started a new painting a little smaller and in a more familiar style.

I had put off painting for a while not only because of becoming involved with sewing, knitting, photograph and WORK, but because the cheap paints I was using, they where so uninspiring. I couldn't get my favorite, 'Matisse', brand of acrylic paints here in Tasmania. I used to buy a box lot from the mainland, but this was getting expensive so I tried to settle for the cheaper stuff...But guess what I found out that the at-least 2 art shops have started selling my favourite brand!!

Last week I bought a few tubes and tomorrow I plan to set aside a few hours and see if they are still the same quality that I remembered them for.

past work

Armadillo nocturne

Cockatoo Summer


Brown Street, Hobart, Tasmania


Brown Street, Detail

Little Cow on Hill

Cow Lick , SOLD

Evening Cow , SOLD