Photograph, April 2009.
I was really taken with the bright red rose petals on the brown oak leaves.
Posts Tagged ‘Art Folio’
390. Horse On Yellow Paper
October 15, 2009
Sharpie marker on yellow ‘cloth-textured’ paper, August 2008.
389. Galahs
October 13, 2009
Photograph, May 2008.
Galahs - Eolophus roseicapilla albiceps
Galahs are very common in our local area. I think they’re cute!
Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day!
September 19, 2009
19 September 2009, drawn on an iPhone using the ‘Doodle Buddy’ app.
International Talk Like A Pirate Day – 19th September. Mark it in your diaries!
373. Grrrl
August 20, 2009
Watercolour pencil, watercolour pencil and colour pencil on paper, July 2009.
This is a bit of a flashback piece for me – more akin to the type of stuff I was drawing in the late 1990s / early 2000s! A little inner Goth that keeps trying to crawl out… Admittedly, this one is relatively colourful when compared to some of my teenage years drawings.
I’ve made this painting available as an art print and greeting card, see http://flokot.redbubble.com/sets/79778/works/3471712-2-girl for more information.
363. Mount Dandenong Bushwalk
June 20, 2009
Ferny Creek Leaves
Autumn Leaves, Ferny Creek
Kookaburra
Sherbrooke Falls
Photographs, May 2009.
On the last day of May, 2009 – which is also the last day of Autumn (Fall) for us – we took a wonderful bushwalk down to Sherbrooke Falls in the Mount Dandenong, Victoria area.
The wonderful mixture of the Autumn leaves on deciduous trees combined with the evergreen eucalyptus forests is a sight to behold. Most amazingly, we actually had the rare privilege of seeing a Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) in the wild. These unique birds are named for their lyre-like tails, and are known for their ability to mimick sounds to a surprising degree of perfection. We used to hear them all the time in the bushland near my childhood hometown: they would often imitate a bizarre mixture of chainsaws, truck engines, and other birds.
Links (accesssed 7 June 2009)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrebird
Dandenong Ranges National Park – Information
My Photos are also available as art prints, mostly in the form of greeting cards. They can be viewed at my RedBubble Profile. The following links are to the same photos on my Bubblesite Gallery:
361. Don’t Ask Me What It Is
June 15, 2009
Digital art, Paint, April 2009.
ahahahah this is another one of my lazy day Paint efforts.
360. It Had To Happen Sooner Or Later
June 14, 2009
Digital art, April 2009.
With the arrival of our new baby Netbook (an Asus Eee PC of some description – don’t ask me for specifics, because I’m not some tech head who knows this stuff), I took great delight in the novelty of playing with long-forgotten PC type stuff. We’ve been using a Mac Mini for a few years, so imagine my delight when my new Netbook came already armed with Paint. Hooray!
I proceeded to draw the first thing that came to mind. What you see here is the first creation I made on Paint on the new computer. I hope you enjoy its crude simplicity.
359. Some Sketch I Did On Music Paper
June 13, 2009
Ball point pen on music manuscript paper, August 2008.
355. Landscape
June 8, 2009
Ball point pen on paper, 2008.
There’s this picture in my mind of some small grassy area in the middle of dense forest. I thought I’d see if I could capture it using red pen.
351. Я ЛОМО
June 4, 2009
December 2008, photograph, 35 mm scanned negative, Lomo LC-A+RL camera.
This is me, photo taken on Christmas Eve by my husband. We were just mucking around with our beloved LC-A camera. The sunset silhouette made me laugh when we developed it. It’s astounding the comments annd queries we get from family members. “What, is that a film camera?” “Who uses film anymore?”
Bah… they must have no sense of organic artistry… Digital might be handy but nothing beats the clarity of film… evenx if it is then taken through the not-so-clear Lomo cameras. Ah I love these things!
More information:
see the Flickr.Com group Lomo Kompakt Automat
LC-As and other Lomo cameras are available at the Lomography Shop
(all links accessed 4 May 2009)
350. Recycled Paper and Moonscape
June 3, 2009
Pencil on handmade recycled paper, December 2008.
This was drawn in a notebook given to me for my birthday. It was bought from the charity One Seed (link accessed 28 April 2009), which was started by members of my home church. Well, this is a good spot for a gratuitous plug for the charity. I have bought / been given quite a few products from their great range of handbags, notebooks and Christmas decorations. (I am not emplyed by this charity, by the way! I just happen to know a few of their members!)
349. Something Sketchy
May 29, 2009
Watercolour pencil on paper, 2008.
Ok, I’m pretty sure this one is watercolour pencil. It was so long ago, I can’t quite remember it… Pencils dipped in water, rather than drawing then painting over them witha paintbrush.
344. Elephant Sketch
May 23, 2009
Graphite pencil on paper, 2007.
One from the vaults – and something that’s not a horse!
343. Purple And Green Star Horse
May 22, 2009
Watercolour pencil and fine liner ink pen on medium tooth paper, 2007.
This is just a little thumbnail sketch. I was looking at different ways to represent cutesy horses – without turning it into a My Little Pony!
Photograph, March 30, 2009.339. Rainy Days
May 16, 2009
(looking out from the front porch – oops, better go get the newspaper out of the letterbox)
(a rainbow! I made the kids rush outside to enjoy it)
(another rainy day, this one photographed from the relative comfort of our loungeroom)
Photographs, April 2009.
After years of drought, it has been such a relief to see rain again! These photos were taken on various days during April 2009. I was so astounded to see wet weather that I felt compelled to take a photo.
The state of Victoria, which is in the south east of the Australian mainland, is naturally a wet, cool temperate area. However, years of various weather problems havemeant a terrble drought, not to mention heatwaves. There has been a lot of theories proposed as to the reason for the weather. My first guess is probably that the climate was devasted when, sometime in the the previous 200 years, the eucalyptus and tree fern rainforests were cut down to make way for farmland.
