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Moving to the Wild Far North recently has reignited my passion for creating - drawings, paintings, sculpture, & cheescakes. We live nestled between Deep Creek, Deadman's Gully, & the beautiful Coral Sea, along with crocodiles, pythons & canetoads.
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Brewing & Stewing
Thanks to all of you for your comments, they really mean a lot to me. I have been such a slacker with posting of late - lots of “Real World” goings-on PLUS fighting for the computer = not...
Cyclone Hamish, flotsam and jetsam
Image courtesy of the Bureau of Meteorology Cyclone Hamish could be here as early as tomorrow night/saturday morning. There goes the weekend plans of exploring the Tablelands. Still, might be less ...
Who turned out the lights? (and more importantly, the air conditioning!)
You may have heard in the news that ALL of North Queensland (from Townsville up to the tip at Cape York) was blacked out from 5.30 last night. That’s over 700,000 homes and everything else with...
You know you’ve made it when….
…your photos make it into the weekly magazines. And you know you’ve really made it if one of them is a booby magazine....
Noisy Neighbours
Leaving the back gate open provides an open invitation to arguably the noisiest night birds IN EXSISTENCE to wander around as if they own the place. I do apologise for the “murkiness” of t...
Snakes and birds (revisited)
This was an entry originally posted 2 weeks ago. I had to delay it’s publication until now due to media committments. If you’ve been following this blog, you may remember my recent pa...
Snakes and birds
If you’ve been following this blog, you may remember my recent painting, the very first I’ve sold - of the birds eating the snake. Even the journalist said it was an amazing karmic event....
My 15 minutes….
Python eats cockatoo for dinner | The Daily Telegraph 3 Nov 2008 … FIRST, it was a spider chowing down on local birdlife that caused a frenzy around the world. www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...
Catching cockies. Again.
Another casualty in the backyard this evening. I don’t know what had befallen this sad fellow, but he couldn’t fly, couldn’t walk and was generally just miserable. I tried to coax hi...
In bed before 2am? Is it possible?
I’VE FINISHED! You don’t know how good it is too be able to say that! 2 paintings delivered to the Tanks Art Centre with almost half an hour to spare. Mind you, I had to skip Uni today, h...
R.I.P. Reg (we think….)
6.50am, my phone rings, waking me from a restless few hours of tossing and turning (finally got to bed at 2.30am after thinking, thinking and more thinking…) “Get here quick if you want to...
Beyond the garden gate
I’m so lucky to be living where I do. In our last home we had “delightful” children living behind us that hurled rocks into our pool. Surburbia at it’s most uninspiring. Liv...
Invasion of the Birds!
We’ve been invaded by birds. Lots and lots and LOTS of birds! Spring has sprung big time. My first birds for Show and Tell are the ones that just made it (with 18 minutes to spare) into the pre...
My, what big feet you have…
I was thinking about what Elizabeth said in her last comment on my previous post. Is Mundane perhaps only a state of mind? Change the parameters of my day and maybe Mundane disappears. I think this ...
Cocky comedian
“Spring” in the tropics is just like Winter. 30 deg C the past few days. AirCon in winter - who would believe it? I can barely keep up with life at the moment. Luckily I have backyard come...
Glazed and dazed
Friday - painting class - continuing our adventures with “oil glazing”. A tiny dab of oil paint is mixed with fast drying Liquol to produce a thin layer (a glaze) of paint. Many layers ...
A bird in the paper is worth 2 pooping on the car,
I’ve had such a busy week that I’ve only just sat down to read Wednesday’s paper (and the rest!) this evening. What a nice surprise to see one of my photos being used in the paper: ...
Move a little bit closer…
These Wood Swallows were hosting a very small party this afternoon. I’ve seen over 20 of them cuddling up close late in the evening. It’s nice to have close friends. No time to upload tod...
Dancing with the cars
That crazy Sunbird is at it again. She is obsessed with singing, and now dancing with her reflection. Over coffee yesterday with our neighbour, he told us that she has ruined the rubber strips on his ...
Illustration Friday - Enough
Made it by the skin of my teeth again! So much going on right now- including the exhibition Official Opening at Kickarts tonight. I can feel the butterflies already - I’ll be right once I have a...
Frustrating Feathers
So what do I have to show for a week’s intensive tuition? Raised blood pressure I’m sure! Cursing fickle feathers and my own inadequacies went hand in hand with my small successes. I comp...
ArtEscape Exhibition Evening
Last day, Friday. What a wonderful week of observing and absorbing, learning and trying, becoming full to overflowing with inspiration and enthusiam. Many chose to spend the better part of the day w...
ArtEscape Environment
“What a gorgeous place this is!” say all the visitors to The Tanks. I uttered the very same words last year at my first ArtEscape. As part of the Botanical Gardens complex, the old WWII Ta...
ArtEscape 2008
Day 2, and Jez has joined me. He spun out when he realised I was being tutored by Paul Margocsy, and wasn’t at Uni. One extra school holiday certainly wouldn’t hurt, and his teacher ac...
Painting in Paradise
ArtEscape - a whole week of being tutored by Australia’s best artists in a tropical rainforest - just bliss on a stick! The Red Bamboo Gate sits alongside the lower Tank where the Oil Pain...
Blood & Guts. That’ll teach me to help the limping gazelle….
You know how when you watch telly documentaries about wildlife, and you see the ubiquitous limping gazelle. You just know what’s going to happen next. You wish you could be there on the savannah...
No press to flatten my fish
Linocut prints done in high school are responsible for a lot of impressive hand scars I reckon. So apprehension and the fear of unstoppable bleeding filled my head when I started cutting a new one ...
Mirror, Mirror on the wall. Or Car…
Remember that cheeky little sunbird who would sing to itself in my car mirror or window? She really has furthered her fetish. She has progressed from the Red Beast… To the Green Heap belonging...
