Watching the years turn
Happy New Year...a journey into the next phase. I find myself exploring facets of myself that are about this time of reflection. The wolf...a dream guide watches on as a butterfly breaks free...an offering perhaps. I have decided topost the different sections as this...
Accordion book completion
After working in the studio all Boxing Day I managed to finally complete the accordion book. The extensions lead to a different direction and I ended up with 2 books. I have added the final piece below. The project was bigger than I ever expected but I am happy with...
Christmas Day accordion book musings.
Accordion book progress and text. update with images as promised. It is Christmas Day and I spent the day with my husbands family in Taralgon. This is a 2 hour drive each way so a perfect opportunity to work on the small moments of creativity. As I sit in the car I am...
Guiding light at Xmas
Wishing you joy and peace... As Xmas celebrations overtakesand social events are the priority for the season, I thought I would pause and say thank you to all the new friends who have dropped by and liked or commented on my posts. I have enjoyed exploring many of your...
Christmas angels…celebrating the season.
Over the years I have painted a lot of different angels. I thought I would share a few of them here and wish you a wonderful, safe and guided Christmas and New Year holiday celebrations. These are some of my smaller angel pieces. [gallery type="rectangular"...
Process 4: The joy of discovery…
Gentle touch I have always sought out imagery in the world around me. I would drift into sleep with my eyes half open watching the figures dance across my bedroom curtains. My imagination was vivid and searched for possibilities in the world around me. I loved the...
Lazy impractical days that flow…
Did you ever have one of those days, where you know that you have a mountain of work to get through but somehow you manage to do everything else. I need to get this accordion book finished for Xmas but I ended up cleaning my studio, going to the art shop, picking my...
Wabi-sabi art
Wabi-sabi life A couple of years ago I came across the word 'wabi-sabi" and I loved the whole idea of the beauty of imperfection. I feel as though it is my imperfections that have shaped me and enabled me to become who I am today. Today I walked into Hampton Supplies...
Process 3 – adding inks and following my intuition.
Adding color layered with acrylic inks. As I continue this piece, the choices continue to build. After adding the dioxidone purple and quinacridone acrylic paint, I have already developed the color palette further. I use a combination of Golden and Atelier fluid...
Accordion book – a long story
I have been working on my background layers.i am so aware that this book is to big. When I was laying on further collage elements, the acrylic paint and inks, I realized that the piece was approximately the length of my studio. I was working on the floor as a table...
The challenge of beginning…
Here I am looking at this long strip of accordion book pages and feel unsure where to begin. I have gathered gum leaves to print but that does not happen, I make a simple tree silhouette stencil and a roller stamp using adhesive foam. These are definitely delaying...
Accordion book project
My Accordion book gift project I am starting to look at this accordion book project that I committed to. It needs to be a book that is close to A5 so it is compact and can travel easily if desired. The question has been about how to begin. I have so many photos but...
Dreams and layers: accordion book musing.
Two nights ago I woke in the middle of the night, planning stamps or possibly stencils to use to build the background layers. Then I made my gum tree stamps. Last night my waking dreams were about the collage pieces and how the layers would work together. I realised...
Gum tree lino cuts
Australian gum tree dreaming. Today I started an accordion book. It is for a gift and is larger than I have done before. I will discu ss the how to process ideas in another post. I know I want to lay...
The next step…process 2
Continuing my large square mixed media acrylic painting. This is the next stage of the piece. Each stage needs to be added to dry fully before proceeding to the next point. I spend time in developing the detailed layered background from an intuitive playful space...
Stepping out the process or where to begin.
Where to begin Today was the first day in ages I haven't had a whole lot of tasks to do by a looming deadline so I did some Xmas shopping in the morning and had a nice relaxed start. I am avoiding starting the accordion book wedding piece as it has so many possible...
Art at Burnley Harbour
This afternoon I dropped off my 6 finished works to the Art at Burnley Harbour. As a first time exhibitor in this annual show, I had no idea how to find it. So the tip is that it is on the Yara Trail bike path and you go down the subway path from McConchie Reserve in...
The Gift
Another piece for The Burnley Harbour Exhibition this weekend. I am playing with the white out and transparency effect to see what it does. I like the effect in this work and have the sense that it is about not overdoing it. I do. Like the effect of the stencil rub...
Evolving images
This is one of the pieces that I started at the Tracy Verdugo workshop. She has moved so far from this beginning point. I am loving the paint markers but am finding the freedom of refillable brush pens is giving me a greater variety of line. The biggest difference in...
Creating, exploring, learning and finding balance…
Life is an amazing learning journey. The question is, how do we find ourselves within the Miriam of responsibilities, pressures, and unexpected moments and challenges that we face. i was side-swiped by a Kenworth ( a huge freight truck) on the way home from work this...
The Dreamer
This is the second older work that I have re-worked for the Burnley Harbour Exhibition organised by The Contemporary Artists Society, of Victoria. The Dreamer had never quite felt complete until now and has evolved into a much stronger image than the original piece....
Hope returns
Okay it's a play on words. I re- visited an old painting I had titled 'Hope'. I was happy with the original but because I'd changed, my paintings had changed, I felt like I needed to lift the colour. As soon as you touch one element, you start balancing across the...
Change and progress.
I am finalising a group of works that began when I did a Tracy Verdugo workshop but have transformed into a style that is truly my own. Layers of Flora Bowley, Erin Faith Ellen, misty Mawn and Suzi Blu to name a few. Alll the on line course shave deepened my art...
The business of art
This is what happens when you have too many exhibition opportunities. I had 2 pieces with names that were almost the same so I have gone back and changed one so it matches the exhibition entry form. Sometimes it gets confusing but the blog helps me record my journey...
The Night Garden
As I explore the layers my work is shifting. This is my final piece for the Quadrant Gallery exhibition 'Summer 11. Now to focus on the works for the Burnley Harbour weekend show on the first weekend in December. And the time comes when the world That you were born...
A process of discovery
Each face in every painting is a new discovery, I find myself thinking 'ahhh... there she is'. Every face, every figure, is like that. They slowly reveal themselves through the layers. At the moment it is the push and pull of the shadows and the sense of connection...
Resonance
I have completed another painting of the Quadrant gallery exhibition. Slowly building the 5 pieces to completion. I am really enjoying using the POSCA pens...they have great colours and work beautifully as paint pens. I added my hand cut hummingbird stencil to the...
Intuitive art movement and change
There is a sense that this intuitive focus in art is what will become to be known as the Intuitive Art Movement. No one seems to be giving it a group name. History does that but as I look around, and do my own research, it is obvious that there is a consistency in...
Into the Garden
Exploring the garden of possibilities.As I worked on this piece I began to add more pen lines. Drawing techniques became interwoven. This piece is for another exhibition. I have finished it and feel that it is one of my best pieces. Funny how you always feel that when...
9 x 5 exhibition art works
I have been working on 2 small pieces for the 9 x 5 exhibition to be held at the Walker Street Gallery in Dandenong in Melbourne. I ended up developing 2 young girls and had fun enjoyed playing with the colours and layers in these small mixed media acrylic collage...
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