Tag: reflections
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From the vault: puzzle from a picture
Here’s another from the vault and completely forgot I had done this. We have been getting into puzzles and have just completed our first one with the family. I was pleasantly surprised to find amongst my old childhood things that I’m still going through, a puzzle I did when I was in highschool. On the…
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From the vault: first canvas oil paintings plein air
So it turns out that I have tried oil painting before and plein air nonetheless. I recall I was chosen to go to a special interschool workshop where we learnt the basics and then went to the pond to paint plein air. I was really into impressionism at the time and imagined painting like Monet’s…
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From the vault – art classes
I recently had to clear out my childhood home and found all my old school books and visual art diaries and had given up art in my senior years to take on more science classes. Even in uni I had dabbled with it but with life, family, kids I had completely forgotten this part of…
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From the vault – dissection of a finger winner of the gokawa award
Amongst the other artefacts that have surfaced after 20years from under my mother’s staircase was a giant finger that I had made out of plasticine in high school. I recall this was another one of those I-wonder-what-I-can-do-with-plasticine moments. At the time I was sketching hands and fingers just for fun and so decided to naturally…
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Beach holiday kits – final set up and paintings
So the last few posts have been the set up of my kits however I realised for my holiday I was limited with space and had to make some hard choices. So here’s what I actually took with me and what I actually used. The first kit I kept in my handbag for ink and…
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Reflections of a reflection
I love this picture as it captures our first roadtrip in our new 4wd camping out west in the bush. I usually enjoy painting on roadtrips but it was our new car my husband didn’t want me to paint in the car. So for this trip I did more sketching whilst we were driving and…
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Reflections on learning to cross stitch and the digital age
My daughter recently came home with a cross stitch kit despite being completely not interested in anything related to needlework. It was on sale and my husband bought it for her. I immediately took out all my old projects half finished and new from when I was a kid 3 longstitch and 3 cross stitch.…
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QLD vs NSW covid border lockdown
This is an painting I did with the $2 paint from office works and a cheap art journal from the newsagent. We went for a holiday down at Coolengatta and stayed a street away from where they had locked down the border between QLD and NSW. It was probably the first time I sat down…
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