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  • Exploring butterfly paintings

    Exploring butterfly paintings

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    This is an updated version of a previous exploration. I’ve updated it and reposted it here for today’s workshop participants and anyone else who might be interested. A new exploration on paper mosaics will follow shortly ๐Ÿ˜€ Do you remember those fun paintings we did as a kid in school – blob some paint on…

  • The Calm

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    Our lives are nuts. While many of the mundane tasks of existence have been relieved by technology, we’ve filled the gaps with more stuff, so instead of spending hours washing our clothes in the local river, we’re dashing off to work to a gazillion deadlines, places to be, people to see and appointments to keep.…

  • Exhibitions

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    This is the state of my hallway at the moment.

  • Stare II

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    First completed painting of 2016 on the first day!

  • They all end up as mermaids

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    I’ve completed another painting. This one took on a life of its own and ended up quite different from what I had intended. It seems that I always end up painting mermaids.

  • Four paintings and two exhibitions

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    After a year of not much painting, but a whole pile of web design and graphic design, I finally cracked a month ago and determinedly put my painting at the top of the priority pile. Consequently I now have a backlog of work to catch up on, but I do have four paintings that have…

  • It is all in the mindset

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    I’m in the perfect position to achieve anything I want, I just need to make sure I don’t stuff up what I already have in order to get it.

  • Retrospective – Sunflower I

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    There was a period in the history of this blog where I stopped posting for whatever reason, but didn’t stop painting. So there are a handful of paintings that were never documented here. So I thought I would share one of those.

  • Hands number six and seven

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    This post follows on from 100 hands and, funnily enough, has more hands ๐Ÿ˜€

  • Paint Party Friday – Gungurru Dawn

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    Aaargh! I had hoped to have this finished to show for PPF, but I haven’t had time, plus there were at least two days this week where I came home from work and just crashed (well, after the evening routine with the kids, anyway, gone are the days of relaxing straight after work).