My week long spread

Here is my small watercolor journal with the first of my weeks spread in it.
The second page had sketches done on the beach at Pt Elliott, and a piece of brain coral I found and sketched,a few of my collection of fish in ceramic and tin, the opium poppies who are flowering in my garden at the moment and roses on the front terrace with a bit of the wrought iron.
None done in great detail, some just for fun, but when time is of the essence at the moment this id keeping up my interest.
After yesterdays heat and wind today it is quite cool and damp and misty, lovely but not a great deal of actual measurable rain.

Half of a weeks spread

Nina on EDM put out a challenge to do a weekly spread across a journal page, doesnt have to be finished, well here are 4 days so far, I have not had time to do much at all, nor lets face it the inclination, so this has at least started me back on a few small sketches.
Last sunday on our walk we saw this very strange down pipe on a small shelter, then gum leaves off the tree out the front, my short sansavieria in a pot in the sun room and this old shearing shed right by the road where John stopped to have a pain killer on the way home from Adelaide and the dentist!
A small offering.

Flowers in the garden

My back is not being kind to me so not a lot is getting done but the Irises and valerian in the garden looked so nice around the pergola post that I had to paint them.
It is warming up so things wont last very long, the subsoil is dryer than last spring so summer doesnt bode very well I am afraid. the rain has just not been there and we can only hope for summer rains to come, and we usually only get them if a cyclone has formed off the Western Australian coast.
What a world we live in, but I still love where I am and what I have.

My bedroom at Geelong

My scanner is back!! Hooray.
This is a very sketchy sketch of my bedroom while I was at Geelong, there was never much time to sketch or do anything so it was a miracle I even got this done. My student hadnt attempted to move much out of his room so I had very little space.
Cold and damp here, been pretty busy and still not getting much done which is frustrating, typical of spring when there is so much to do and no time to do it.

The garden shed

I have finally resorted to using the camera which I dont think does such a good job as the scanner but as I am still without the scanner I was feeling I really needed to put something up.
I think it looks better this size, if you enlarge it you will see all the dreadful things I did to it!!
This probably looks a bit dotty but that is the way I see the geraniums and succulents that are surrounding the garden shed, not to mention the trees which are now all coming out into leaf.
A very busy time since I got back from Geelong, a new baby great grand son, visitors, my birthday, heavens how did I get so old!!
Lots of birthday celebrations although the big seven o is next year. Actually I think the birthday celebrations got mixed up with the baby as well.
I have had very little time to paint or sketch and when I have I am afraid I have been feeling a bit tired but today I did actually manage to get some sort of paint onto paper.
Thank you to all who sent congratulations on both the baby and my birthday, it is lovely to think that people sometimes do read my blog.

Stone work at Geelong Grammar

This was a hasty sketch done while waiting for dinner. It is part of the stone cloister that is between the church and another part of the building. There was a cold wind blowing in from the bay so very quickly done.
I had a lovely week away but came home to visitors, who are very good friends but a house in a mess. I have washed floors and done a few things while waiting to see if my grand daughter has gone into labor or not.
A week away at a Fibre Forum is great fun, totally exhausting and rather uplifting, you come home with new friends and lots of new ideas.
Geelong grammar is set in one of the loveliest positions overlooking Corio Bay and is a lovely place to walk around and if one had time, sketch, I took lots of photos and hope to do something from them. There is very little time to just sit and relax during day light hours!!
The main problem is the at least 9 hour drive to and from it.

While waiting for the Physio

I had a few minutes up my sleeve when I went into Victor this morning and parked the car by the sea and did a quick sketch. It was very rough but Wright Island and the Bluff were over the water and one of the huge old palm trees that line the shore caught my eye.
After the gales and wet weather it was nice not to be buffeted around it is still cold.
My back feels marginally better after my visit to the physio this morning.