Been in North west Victoria

This is a pretty awful watercolor that I did sitting in the sun and looking at the view from Imperial Stud which is near Benalla. Sarah and I did a quick trip across (11 hours + drive)with a float to deliver and pick up some ponies. Such a lovely place and the views are lovely. As I said, not at all well done but just a small thing to remember it by. We were away for 3 days and it was all pretty exhausting, but so lovely to catch up with old friends. Havent posted on this blog for a while and thought perhaps I should although my painting sketching mojo has not been with me for a while.

sketchbook play.

More playing in my sketchbook. We have a new kitten called George and at 10 weeks he is full of fun and play. I have to watch him all the time but trying to sketch with a biting scratching kitten is not easy. I managed to get the magazine Faces the other day and have been having fun with it. Not sure where the fox came from. Spring is coming fast, a bit too warm too early but after all my moaning about drizzle and cold it really has been nice to feel slightly warmer than perhaps I needed to be.

Fungi

All this wandering and looking at galleries has made me want to paint. Not terribly well I admit, but at least I had a go. fungi from my imagination. Watercolour.

Moving on

I wasn't sure if the top one was finished and looked at it for a while and then decided to put a wash of gesso over it and add the branch of leaves. I quite liked the depth the background gave it. Leaves are easy to do.I am not a painter, acrylics are not my medium but I seem to have quite a few, so this was fun.

Fungi

I have been in Adelaide for 2 days and a night. Mostly went up to spend time with P and have a bit of a look at some of the SALA exhibitions.I am afraid I got terribly tired as I have had a few problems with my tummy, not sure what the problem is, stress perhaps. Any way I managed the drive up and back. We saw some lovely, and also not so lovely stuff in some interesting places. Highlights were the magnificent space in the St Peters library, transformed from the original town hall, and some lovely stuff by friends I know displayed in smallish acrylic boxes, books, boxes and embroidery. From there we went to the National Wine Center where there was a great display by mostly emerging artists from Kangaroo Island, called KI Fungi, great space, interesting work, hence my sketchbook jotting, these were really only there to be used for display, and then interestingly this morning I found some ink caps, a very quick sketch using ink and a dropper. now tired and trying to catch up after a morning of shopping and checking of things in the garden, still cold but a bit of sun.

Back to childhood

Today was Lyn's turn on Carla Sonheim's blog and we made birds and bugs in tags using leaves.Great fun. This has been a fabulous set of free classes. As you can see, 2 birds, a cat, or perhaps a fox and a caterpillar. Cold overcast and making my joints ache. Collected oysters, which we are having tonight, battered which we haven't done before. woops, not sure how there are two pictures, but I don't think it matters.

Having fun with a free on line class

Carla Sonheim has a free on line class, supposedly for children but adults can join too. As you an see I have joined in, the first were Picasso dogs and the next night sky is put up by, oh dear, can't remember who. Any way they have been fun to do. It has been very cold all day and I have a running nose, so a nice thing to do on such a miserable day.