in my dreams

I recently stumbled across these beautiful photographs on the lomography website. They were taken with a Lomography Diana camera, a remake of the original Diana camera which was produced in Hong Kong in the 60's. Cheap, and made of plastic, the Diana has become popular once again with photographers who want to achieve this 70's look in their photos. Apparently the Diana is quite unpredictable with her results, and to those of us who have become accustomed to the world of digital photography, the processing costs are a bit of a shock. But ohh how I love these deliciously vibrant super saturated colours and random light flashes. You can buy one for yourself here. Tempted?

yellow monday update

Firstly a big thank you to Irene from Bloesem for featuring a couple of my prints on her beautiful blog.

Here is a new print for the yellow monday shop. It's called bird sampler. You can find it here.



I am also very happy to have some yellow monday prints in two lovely online stores - The Shiny Squirrel, and Moose: Art for living.

One of the prints at The Shiny Squirrel is this dancing owl print.



Many thanks to Matt (from Moose) and Jessica (from The shiny Squirrel) for stocking yellow monday prints in their shops.

sale

And one more thing - I'm having a sale at the shop, so pop over and have a look.

the empty white page

These exquisite works are by Peter Callesen. I think they are all done from a single A4 sheet of white paper. Amazing!

around my place

1. kitchen corner, 2. view to wileys, 3. lunch, 4. cup of tea and peanut butter snack, 5. pig face, 6. helen's house, 7. yellow flower, 8. sad little lunch, 9. headland, 10. boardwalk headland, 11. cactus, 12. frittata

you make my day

I've never been tagged before, and I've certainly never had an award, so I was very excited last week, to find that I'd been given for a "you make my day award" (blush)by the very lovely Gigi from Roadside Scholar (who I would have to say has often made my day with all her amazing finds!)

so here goes...

Mizu Designs - an wonderful artist who specialises in woodcut and produces beautiful Japanese inspired works on paper.
Dudley Redhead - another Aussie and amazing artist (with a bit of a thing for robots).
Hyena in petticoats I've only recently discovered this colourful blog. There always seems to be something fun happening here.
feedthedog who makes beautiful one of a kind cushions and gorgeous wearables for children.
meet me at mikes which I've only recently discovered. There's a lot going on here, and I've just started to make my way through all the great links and archives.

The wall is finished

I finally finished all 23 panels for the wall project.



And it has been installed!





A big thank you to the clients because it was such a pleasure to do a commissioned work for them.


And a special hats off to Scott, who masterminded putting the works onto the wall in dead straight lines (only utilising one lump of blu tak),



and a big hug and thank you to Terase who was such a pleasure to collaborate with. All in all it was a really enjoyable project, and so exciting to see it up on the wall. And, it has to be said, David and I are really enjoying the extra real estate in our lounge room now that the plaques have gone!

Here are a few photos taken over the last few weeks



Planning what happens on each panel.



Paper templates to make sure it was all going to plan (and scale)


Panels with background layers finished and the final stage just underway



Laid out to dry



Up on the wall.

more bird love

Sorry to bang on about the birds again, but they've been coming back to visit every day, and I'm very happy about that. They are as curious about us as we are about them.



Yeah I know the windows could use some cleaning.

But that's not all, it's become a bit like the Australia zoo outside our bedroom window lately. This kookie arrived yesterday,



and I woke this morning to see a little Indian mynah standing on the window ledge looking in at me. This I'm not so happy about. These birds are no longer welcome at our place. About 3 weeks ago they suddenly realised that they can just walk in through open windows. We've had about 6 incidents and one left a special message for me all over my computer screen.

On matters of art, I am nearly finished the series of paintings for the wall. I'll post the finished pics soon.

And a new print in theshop



Off to get my hair cut now. YIKES.