I am a canna, it says . . . .

"You stand up for what you believe in, even if it gets in the way of what other people think. You are proud of yourself and your accomplishments and you enjoy letting people know that."


Why don't you play, too?


Click on the text on the pix on the right :)

Still fiddling!

Hahaha! That's all I seem to do these days.

Last weekend, I took out my brushes and paints and didn't manage to do anything decent for the longest time! My comma strokes turned out like fat-blood-drunk leeches on pot, and my fine lines? Fine what???!!!

Ok lah, too long away from something I am not good at - and the result seems to be: Start again at square One!

Which is ok. Because that is just what I did.

And after a bit, things started to look kinda like the pictures I had in front of me, and I felt a little better.

All week, I am in Kayel, and so I have no chance to practise at all. And so it is the weekends, when I am home in PD that I get a chance to fiddle about with colour and brush! And for three whole weeks, I haven't been home!

So many plants dead, the garden so parched with no rain, and my painting: sucks!!!!

Nope, past tense: sucked. It's gotten slightly better than it was at the start of the weekend. Progress of sorts, eh  ;)

Onwards we go: Practise! Practise! Practise!

The you-tube thingy that got me started

The video below simply mesmerised me.

And for some reason, I knew that if I held a brush, and double-dipped it in paint, I'd be able to do this.

Okie. . . Hahahah! It didn't quite turn out as simple as that... but I'm having a blast!!!

Over the Chinese New Year holidays, I didn't have a chance to touch a brush. For three whole weeks. Last weekend, when I finally held one in my hand, it refused to perform as instructed. The hand and the brush lah!

So, I sat and did comma strokes, and exclamation points, and messed about with the horrid black paint I wish I hadn't bought. At least it's coming in handy for practise work and doodling and trying to write with a brush :)

Here's Donna Dewberry who's the angel who told me: "Just pick up a brush and practise. Anyone can do one-stroke painting!"

A Valentine heart?

Something I did last week, over the long weekend for City Day.

Hearts and roses are everywhere. And the red, red, red of Chinese New Year is kinda stinging me eyes!!!

So, I thought: How's about a heart of rosebuds and little-bitty leaves?

And there it is, above.

None of the stuff I've done are really original pieces. I've scoured You-Tube and downloaded loads and loads of images and been to hundreds of websites and looked at the work of really good artists.

So, like all beginners, my work is usually an attempt to reproduce something I've seen somewhere.

It seldom looks the same as the original, because I am a fledgling, and wobbling on my new-born fingers!

But, if anything you see in these pages remind you of something you've seen somewhere else, it probably does! And to those who have inspired me, I say thank you.

Blue flowers

And finally, something that came out fairly right. At least, for me. It is what I wanted, and the brushes did as I asked, and the flowers didn't bubble up into something from the Mars.

I made this as a gift for a dear friend.

First, I did the flowers . . .















And then, I added the words, by Aristotle:

What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.