Tag: nature

• Tired of the Instagram hussle 🙄

  

  I was pleased to see some genuine feedback to my question on Instagram for this post. I just find Instagram is changing so quickly these days it’s so hard to keep up. Blogging on my website is far more enjoyable and sits better with my creative time. There is so little time to use Instagram […]

  tjtoffolo

  September 10, 2022

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  art collector, Aussie bush, Australia, Australian wall art, childhood, day trips, digital painting, eltham artist, family, feel safe, freedom play, illustrators australia, Instagram, joyous, nature, painterly, parenting, play, run free, social media headache

• Our natural home

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  tjtoffolo

  August 28, 2022

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  eltham artist, home, nature, river

• Velvety Print runs

  

  tjtoffolo

  August 25, 2022

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  childhood, childrens book, digital painting, eltham artist, exhibition, feel safe, fine art, girl, hope, illustrators australia, joy, melbourne artist, nature, oil painting, painting still&all, prints, reproduction prints, the eltham art show, wallart

• Sketchy in the making using my gouache and Sennelier oil pastels

  

  tjtoffolo

  August 12, 2022

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  bunny, bunny rabbit, childhood, childhood freedom, childrens book, Easter bunny, eltham artist, feel safe, gouache, Handmade, Illustration, illustrators australia, joy, nature, oil pastel, yellow

• Can you feel Spring around local Melbourne?

  

  tjtoffolo

  August 4, 2022

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  artcollector, childhood, dusk, elthamartist, feel safe, freedom, joy, life, nature, spring, walks, winter

• Woodsy and foraging girl -work in progress digital

  

  tjtoffolo

  July 25, 2022

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  burmese cat, childlike, digital painting, eltham artist, foraging, forest, freedom, joy, nature, oil paint, pet cat, portrait girl, procreate, safe, woods

• Creamy, dewy, joy and freedom

  

  Creamy dewy hues of my oil pastels. Seeing them feels like a lolly shop as a child. A few of my fave Sennelier oil pastels

  tjtoffolo

  July 23, 2022

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  childhood childhoodmemories joyful, childrens book, creamy, elthamartist, freedom, Handmade, melbourne artist, nature, oil pastel, safe

• The mannerisms of a child

  When I make little scenes up in my illustrations and paintings I will often place children in them I know. Even to not know the child can evoke a feeling of wonderment just by watching their mannerisms. A coy look from the corner of an eye, light dancing across a frilly dress or the look […]

  tjtoffolo

  July 20, 2022

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  artist in leafy Eltham, blogging, childhoodstories, childlike storytelling, childrens book, childrens cafe, copic marker pens, environment, feeling safe, fishbowl, freedom, giftideas, girl, Handmade, Illustration, illustrators australia, inspiration, joy, life, marine life, melbourne artist, nature, north east Melbourne artist, small business, tea party

• Digital paintings in progress this summer

  

  tjtoffolo

  January 24, 2022

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  artcollector, Australia, blogging, composition, digital digital painting seaside marina boatharbour paintfromlife melbourneartist julietoffolo art smallbusiness, eltham artist, environment, fine art, fishing, giftideas, Handmade, life, melbourne artist, nature, painting, Plein Air, shop local, shop locally, sketching, summer, wallart

• My first digital sketch for 2022

  

  tjtoffolo

  January 2, 2022

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  backyard, digital art, drawing, environment, greens, Handmade, home, makers, melbourneartist, nature, onmydeck, pleinair, procreate, sketching, small business, summer