my creative space

no childcare today ~ so i thought i'd show some progress on this painting . . . looking over unfinished work while unpacking has renewed my interest! i thought the white was too dominating, but i think with the plans i have, it might be ok.
and i've finally started making something with this yarn. it has been keeping me company and providing colour inspiration for a while now :)

hope you are having a creative day! pop into kirsty's for more spaces or to play along.

painting

i worked on this painting {and lots of other things} this weekend. it started out as a fun 'loose-limbed' approach to the paint. not my usual thing, but i had fun experimenting and just letting the colours happen. i'm usually much more controlling over the composition, and often wish i wasn't!! usually i have a general idea of the composition with landscapes ~ which seems to work well with short blocks of time and getting ideas out. i'd love to have more time to play and allow things to develop a little more freely/intuitively!

hope your week is getting off to a good start :)

** the image is looking a little fuzzy in blogger. if you click on the image it'll take you to flickr, where it'll look clearer!!

new white tent . a few things about the tents!

i thought i'd show + tell about the tents because i seem to keep painting them! they are my current inspiration.

i associate them with childhood holidays + music festivals, and the fun of sleeping outside under the stars ~ breaking free from the routine of hoping into bed like normal. even though home was in a country area when i was a child, the excitement of setting up a temporary outdoor 'home' was big!

there were many christmas holidays in the late 70s with 2 family tents in our backyard and a family from interstate in each of them . . .

. . . the romance and escapism of a road trip and visiting new landscapes + environments are subjects that pop up in my work quite often.

happy monday!

new painting . 2nd etsy birthday sale!

here is a painting i did over the weekend ~ not sure if it's finished or not. i think it is + maybe if i leave it for a while it'll become clear . . .

on march 11, my etsy shop will turn 2! so i'm having a print sale to celebrate.
** buy one print + get one free {2nd one equal value or less} until sat march 13 **

happy monday!

7 tents . new painting

i've had some fun painting tents lately ~ it's been years since i've camped and i'm not sure how i'd go roughing it ~ but the idea is very exciting! reminds me of being a kid :)

the print is available here.

a little painting progress

i squeezed in some painting time on sunday.
things feel super squeezed this week, and i expect this month. . . school has officially started for our 5 year old and for me! i'm doing the bakery half-dozen 6 wk business course, and boy do i have some work to do! just as i was thinking, it won't be too hard to find the time now that i only have our 2 yr old at home, he has decided that a day sleep isn't really necessary! he's out of the cot/into {sometimes} a bed and toilet training this week! busy, busy. . .

so if i owe you a blog comment/visit or two, these will be the reason! hope to get there soon!

. . .i'm also planning on trashing the j-s kit comment system when i get some time as the sign in thing doesn't work {there are no links for a lot of comments, which means there is no way of visiting back} and also i've noticed a few comments here and there have disappeared {admin at js-kit only help with this kind of thing if you buy a 'premium' account :( }

happy mid school week to you!

my creative space

yay for the first creative space for the year ~ maybe some structure will start creeping in to our days now, i can almost feel it happening!
i've taken our about-to-start-school {on tuesday} boy swimming and i'm hoping to spend an hour on these new paintings. fingers crossed that i can keep the flow and not go overboard.

i'm hoping to visit more spaces this year ~ it always seems to be a rush to get there, and most often doesn't happen til the following day . . . better late than not at all??

happy creating :)

visit kirsty to play + see.

'white trees'

this painting is finished.
i like how the texture of the board is visible through the sky section – looks like steam/smoke swirling through the air above the homes. {the links take u to flickr where u can see the detail!}
it took me ages to get the colours looking like they do in the physical painting. funny/frustrating how the layers of paint all seem to be read by the camera and interpreted in a misleading way. i would love it if there was a book on photoshop designed for artists! there are so many 'manual' style books for people wanting to create wacky images or sci-fi style work etc but none that i know of that can help make artwork look like artwork.
do you know any??