Happy New Year! Yes this is finally a new post for 2010! I have been having camera and computer problems which is most annoying however I managed to get some photos of recent 'visitors' to our neighbourhood. Both these birds are cuckoos - a parasitic bird that does not build its own nest or raise... Continue Reading →
I have just finished this drawing of a Kookaburra. Again it is drawn using light washed of watercolour and many many dots made with a fine nib rotring pen. It is a drawing I started last year and is part of my mission to complete unfinished projects. I am still carving one of the unfinished... Continue Reading →
I have finally started to get back to work - although slowly - and have just updated my website with the final version of the 'Tawny Expressions' linocut which I have called 'Evry Move You Make...Watching YOU'. The local 'tawnies' as they are affectionately known are back of an evening hunting under the street lights... Continue Reading →
We spent some time in Bellingen NSW yesterday.A lovely warm winter's day - and I managed to photograph just a few of the local birds. Think I have identified them correctly but any corrections welcome! This Lewin's Honeyeater - Meliphaga lewinii - was one of many flitting around feeding on nectar from a Eucalypt flowers.... Continue Reading →
It is wet windy and cold here at the moment with a 'weather event' looming - according to the weather forecasters. Nice weather for being inside drinking coffee, making winter comfort food and well procrastinating which seems to loom large for me in recent times. I have however managed to complete one set of colour... Continue Reading →
Having finally carved, printed and now coloured this linocut (after working on the original drawing over a year ago and the pre-sketch ideas are over 2 years old!) I finally have finished! I had hand painted the emu first as you can see but it felt a bit empty so added a graded wash of... Continue Reading →
Wildflowerings - Art Studio Diary 