Every sketch a story
Australia is a land of birds. They are numerous and diverse, with almost half of them being found nowhere else on Earth. I could easily spend a year just painting and describing my own personal encounters with different birds, but I’ll keep it to a two page spread for brevity:
Draw, paint, repeat
It would make sense to me to fill a whole sketchbook with sketches and paintings of giraffes – I just love their ears and lumpy faces, their earthy tones and big dark eyes. Drawing them gives me joy, but I also love illustrating many other subjects, and besides, this homemade watercolour sketchbook is for all…
Unnerving my inner critic
I’ve been creatively stagnating and unhappy about it for too long. Too many of the drawings or paintings I attempted ended up stuffed in a pile of defeat, or worse, destined for landfill, which always felt wasteful and discourteous. Worse still, so many of the sketchbooks or visual diary’s I’ve started have fallen out of…
A creative odyssey
Just for fun I decided to imagine creative projects as a landscape through which we journey. I made a map of what one journey to project completion (Fruition) might look like. Most ideas for creative projects start out as a spark, washed up or captured on the shores of the Sea of Imagination. A (not…
Crikey . . .
Last year in September the authorities in South-east Queensland, where I live, told us to prepare for water restrictions, as previous wet seasons had failed and the dam levels were getting low (under 50% for our largest dam). Two months later, the Bureau of Meteorology predicted a wet summer and Australia recorded its wettest November…
Every day is tree day
I once worked for a bush regeneration project in which I planted thousands of Australian native trees over the course of about six months. Despite the stinking heat and creature-invested dirt (including some rather deadly spiders and snakes), I loved every minute. I’ll never get tired of trees. I love looking at them, being near…
Mindful doodling: Am I doing it right?
In keeping with my 2022 Intentions poster I’ve been putting my pens and pencils to good use and filling a sketchbook with art for fun. Ok, so these aren’t exactly absent-minded scribbles, but they aren’t showpieces either. This is as close to doodling as I’ve been able to get. It’s really hard to create art…
Creative Intentions
A very Happy New Year to you. Busyness took over life for a little while, but this week I took the time to sit down and map out my (mostly) creative intentions for 2022. I decided to go with intentions instead of goals because creativity itself is something I live every day rather than an…
Impetus for creative pursuits
I’ve been on the look out for a new ceramic watercolour mixing palette, appropriately sized and shaped for my workspace, so I looked on Etsy and loved the handcrafted palettes I saw there. There are such clever people out there. Unfortunately all the ones I liked shipped from overseas. The postage service is understandably overwhelmed…
Creativity is not a luxury
Questions I ask myself at 2 am when I can’t sleep: How much does the Earth weigh? How fast are we travelling through the Milk Way? Is it always this quiet? Why aren’t my watercolours coming out as expected? Why can’t I stop? The question regarding watercolour expectations versus reality is simple to answer, at…
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