Soon to be released “Human Energy”, A Sumi-e Art story of energy and humans’ being.
Spontaneous ink paintings explore moods such as love, life and dance, as an art picture book.
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I’m excited to announce I have a few designs available on a new product - Yoga Mats!!!!, they are 60cm x 178cm) (24 x 70 inch.)
The designs so far include a watercolour yoga pose designs on blue, teal and black. These are now available with matching tote bags. Click on image for details of each.
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My latest Fine Art photography calendar of twelve a.door.able doors in Italy was released today (yay) and is available in link and via all good book stores.
If the favourable computer fairies come to play for a while- a Monochrome Door Calendar will be released shortly..... unless they don't then you might need to wait a bit.
The doors in Italy are so beautiful, to live behind one would be such a lovely welcome on your return home
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Italy truly is an amazing and beautiful place to visit, the weather was superb when we were there earlier this year, and the food was -- AMAZING-- I hope I get the opportunity to return very soon as I absolutely adore it.
I have just published this Fine Art Wall Calendar available for sale now at
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The White Rhino is my final drawing for a great short Natural History Illustration course I have just completed. The course helped me understand graphite and I really enjoyed closely observing the natural world and the application of Science in drawing, I am looking forward to doing more Natural History-style illustrations and
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When I published my first picture book earlier this year, this blog was hibernating, so this is a little catch-up.
This is not the way to publish a children's book, a little btw after the fact, but anyhoo that's all part of the learning curve, to build the audience and do most of the marketing prior to release is the way it should be done.
To talk about
One of the hardest things for me is self-promotion, but it is a vital ingredient not only for Artists but for success in many fields. I am much happier to just create and do what I do and somehow magically it will all work out if I do... (--pfft, yeah right~)
I am pleased that my submission to the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) Style File was
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Graphite Spice- Chilli, Ginger, Garlic, Cardamom....
I am a few weeks into a short Botanical illustration course and these are a few drawings so far. I really love the beauty of nature- including food and of course all those delicious flavours- in particular gorgeous herbs and spices.
Slowly I am becoming more comfortable with my graphite nemesis, and am
With the increase of all that lovely black ink around this month (Inktober) I thought I would remind you to not forget about your colours too, make sure you include several of the colours from this palette a day- 5 vegetable servings and 2 of fruit, if you don't, make sure you paint with them :)
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Now that spring has well and truly sprung, I have re-hatched my ink harvest.
My original "Harvest" word-art was done a few years ago when I had just fallen in love with ink. It was rushed for a project and I didn't spend the time on it that I would have liked to.
Lately, I had been feeling like I was at an impasse with drawing, painting and digital, and I realised that I
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This image was a failure, the goal was to create an ink illustration for my portfolio. While composing the elements I had the idea to add one of my old incomplete oil paintings to the background. I loved the effect and the mood it created, but
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