Loving her work its such good fun and great community

And interestingly here is a whimsy one that i did prior

Its been a fun new way to work with pencils and all of my art supplies amd to practice drawing faces.

Mixed Media on paper – 85 X 60.5 cms

Here she is all done

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“Underwater Dreaming” – Is one of my artworks from last year, this one evolved from trying  new techniques at a workshop with Penny Murison for the CCAS.

I really enjoyed her workshop, it really includes having not much control at all over what is happening with the paint it was a heap of fun.

So today I just finished framing and will be entering it the CCAS Summer Exhibition which is starting next Friday 20th January at the Studios at the Gallery. It should be a great exhibition and an annual event on the CCAS calendar. I am tossing up between a couple of other works to enter as well, please come along if your from my local area and support the artists and all the work that goes into putting on community events.

8X10 inches, 20X25cms

A Fabulous little warm up for me for the beginning of the year I thought I would share with you all. These were the roses that I bought on Pink Rose Day, I blogged about and supported last year. (wow it feels weird saying that it seems like it was just the other day).

“Strangers in the Night” – I don’t know that I will keep this title, but for some reason when I saw these two Roses that famous song came to mind.

I am a bit embarrassed to say this has been my first coloured pencil artwork  on paper (other than ones for demos and commissions and experiments ) that I have done for a while, and for that reason I wanted to do something quick an fun and just kick start me off to the new year.

This is an 8X10″ (20X25cms) work, done with Prismacolor and Polychromos and Derwent Colorsoft pencils, and I have use Zest-it in the background particularly.

As this is a work in progress you will be seeing this one again.

BTW – If your wondering what is going on with my website design atm, i appologise I know it needs work and I am delaying a redo as I need to make some decisions first and I don’t want to run with something until I have a good feeling of where I want to go .. so until I am there I am “sitting on it” and you all have to perservere. Please just ignore the design and look at the artwork for now : )

This photo really doesn’t do this one justice, but its been sitting on my board for a while now and I actutally started this one over a year ago. Here is the link.

This one fits in with my contemplation series and means a few different things, I don’t want to impart my thoughts on others so happy for you guys to make up your minds on this one

Once its dry I will get a better photo

Calling this one pretty much done, maybe a few tweeks here and there.. its been a fun experiment trying this technique ..I feel like I can call it done, tho I can see areas I would like to keep working but time calls for finishing up a different painting and moving onto the next thing

• Self – portrait WIP… continued

• Self portrait in the old masters / realism styles -WIP 1
• Start of portrait