nature

Elephants cooling off

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Always find this the fun, nerve wracking part of creating; the starting block in stages.

I’m loving playing with lights and darks on these grand Elephants and placing them in the murky dark ponds of their natural environment.

Still much more work to get over the finish line with this one.

At the beach and lots of fossicking

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I love to fossick on holidays and collect new and interesting things from nature.  Playing with my travel watercolour set; revisting watercolour is always fun and challenging.  At the Beach, love it! I hope to finish a small sequence of at the beach drawings and will post them when done.img_7800

Merry Christmas from me and Homer (studio boy)

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Another year has passed and it has been hard, albeit creative too and filled with loads of love from my doggy Homer by my side in the studio.

My beautiful Mum passed just before last Christmas and I guess we (our family) will find it a bit tough each year at this time. They say it gets easier with time, but now it feels more permanent each time I go to grab the phone to call her.

Thanks so much from my arty heart for all of your follows, support and encouragement in my artistic journey. Knowing there are those out in this space who read, acknowledge and show interest makes this creative life all that bit more relevant.

We are heading into a hot summer in Oz this Christmas and I live in a bush fire prone bushy haven; so always mindful of this amongst the Gum trees.

If you have snow for your Christmas, love that white fluffy powder while you think of us sweltering through our BBQ’s on Christmas day.

Yay for Summer and our beautiful beaches over these holidays and watching Homer stalk little native froggy’s in our backyard pool.

Can’t wait to paint on the beach in the sun under a Tea tree.

Merry Christmas, stay safe.
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