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.
Archive for May, 2009
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!
341. Backyard Photo Blitz
May 20, 2009
My mum tells me that this is called a swan plant.
Some chalk art on the driveway, courtesy of the children.
Air vents on the side of the house.
A crack in the footpath.
Photography, April 2009.
Photograph, March 30, 2009.Keeping the Children Busy
May 17, 2009A few snapshots from the April / Easter school holidays. I thought there might be something in this – “baby’s first SLR camera,” perhaps.
Grandparents take note: invest in a Nintendo Wii and be amazed at how often the grandchildren visit.
It’s my theory that every 4 year old is ready to learn how to operate a Digital SLR.
We’ll start her on the Nikon D40 before she graduates to the D90.
This photo entertained me. For some reason certain members of my husband’s family decided to strain the sausages out of the goo mix,
which resulted in a gruesome looking series of photos.
Go to a playground, hand a DSLR to a little kid, and enjoy the surprises that await when looking at the photos afterwards. Life is different when viewed from closer to the ground.
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.
Photograph, April 2009.Nicaraguan Stamp
May 12, 2009
I’m not entirely sure what is happening here… it’s a little morbid… It probably made it into my collection due to the fact there’s a horse on it.
335. More And More Roses
May 5, 2009
Asiatic Wild Horse, Poland
May 5, 2009
This is a Polish stamp featuring a fairly rare species of equid (horse family), the Przewalski Horse.
The Amalgamation 
