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Ilustration Friday - Dessert

My housemate Trudy has an awesome dessert she regularly whips up. I know there are some secret ingredients, but the basics are:

Mix a tablespoon of nutella with a small amount of milk, and heat in the microwave. Pour on icecream, add some hundreds and thousands, and chow down... in a happy chocolate coma.

A Room Of One's Own

Winston modelling on the couch.

Big desk, and clothes line art hanger complete with pegs.

Cupboard of tools, gocco printer and other fun stuff.

I've always wanted to have an art space... rather than the kitchen table sprawl, the lost notebooks around the house, the ink spilled on carpet. Recently Matty kindly built himself a new music studio in our garage, allowing me to shift this art flotsam from around the house into one lovely little den (/guest room), take over the walls with art (rather than crushing them like I usually do) and put little trinkets from life on the shelves. It is currently messy and has lots of work to make it fully functional, but I now have an ART ROOM STUDIO! Woohoo!

I just also had my mum come and stay... Twas lovely to see her, and she left me with more childhood journals and books and a beautiful scarf she made.

Emerging Artist Exhibition

Oooh I am excited to be next week a finalist in the Emerging Artist Award and Exhibition, at the Walker Gallery in Dandenong.

I've just started putting my work "more out there", so it is very exciting to see progress... and I'm really looking forward to see some other work. Should be fun.

Embarrassingly, when I went to hand in my work, children's book illustrator Leigh Hobbs was there and I introduced myself with the babble that I hoped to be a kid's book illustrator one day. Fate or awkward!? :)

Byron Bay

Illustration Friday - Caged

“Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.” ~ Saskya Pandita

The Canvas Project

There are some clever chaps in NY who have set up "The Art House Co-op", bringing together whoever wants to contribute with cheap, fun international projects.

I'm going to participate in "the canvas project" - I was sent 3 mini canvasses with the words "SAVAGES", "KEMPT" and "PERSISTENT". Just for something different I've made them with oils and ink, however sort of forgotten how long damn oils take to dry... still wet a week later, so needing them to hurry on so I can mail them on their merry way back to the USA to join their exhibition in Brooklyn later this year. Dry oil dry!