Our new house!

Last weekend Chris and I moved into our new home. After years of having our belongings spread across different continents, we finally got all our stuff in one place! Hooray! It has been lovely unpacking and remembering what we have.

Cheers to new starts!

Screen printing at Harvest Textiles

This weekend I had a lovely time at Harvest Textiles in Melbourne on their two day screen printing workshop.

Fox & Sui

Dear all, I really like this song...summer is coming!

 

x x

 

Wedding Birds Print

I have just recently finished this print which I have called 'Wedding Birds'.  It is a gift for my sister in-law and her partner who have recently wed.

 

It is a reduction lino print, with two colours (a pale lilac and a purple-black).  As you can see from the second photo - it wasn't always easy - there was real blood spilled during the making of this! It is an edition of 7, and each of them are all a little different due to ever so slightly different alignments, but I don't mind that. 

 

I really feel like I am addicted to lino...if only I didn't have to work and I would spend all my time doing prints!

 

x x

 

 

Ouch!

 

 

This was my original sketch alongside one of the final prints. 

 

Crochet Rug Update

Hello,

 

I thought I would share some photos of my circular crochet rug which is coming along nicely, if a little slowly.  It's just single stitch and it goes around and around and around.  I've mostly been making this rug during car journeys so I have decided that it is a rug which is made in the car, for the car.

 

A recent drive to Yarrawonga in country Victoria gave me a good opportunity to get stuck into some serious crochet.  A little cat called Kahlua likes the rug too - she had a great time clawing her nails into it...argh!

 

 

Monoprinting Workshop

Today I attended a mono printing workshop at Zart Art in Melbourne for a professional development day.  It was lots of fun revisiting mono printing and having a whole day of drawing and making.  Here are some of my prints from today...

Rugby player...

daffodils...(my favourite from today)

a doodle...

a big orange flower...

face doodle... 

teapot doodle... 

Reminisce Art Club Submission

Here is my recent lino print which I made for Around the Kitchen Table Art Club last month....

                     For last month’s Art Club  'Reminisce' theme I started to think back to my earliest memories as a child. I have two very vivid memories from when my family lived in Union Street, Greenock in Scotland. I don’t know how old I was, but I was able to walk about and I can remember my line of vision being quite low down, so I must have been quite little.

The first memory relates to the image of the fish. Dad had been fishing and had brought home a big dead fish, it was night time and the lights were on in the kitchen. He lifted me up on the side of the kitchen bench and I began examining the dead fish. To my surprise dad lifted out the eye of the fish and pretended to eat it, yuck! I remember that I started squirming and squealing and then there was lots of laughter because of my reaction.

The second memory relates to the key. Two policemen came to the front door one day enquiring about a young woman who had been murdered in the local area. I remember peering through the legs of my parents and feeling a bit scared of the men in uniform. Mum and dad said they didn’t know anything but the told the police about a key they had found when they were gardening a few days earlier. I remember my parents giving them the key and that was the end of the conversation. Keys have interested me ever since.

I was telling my parents about these memories recently and mum told me that the case of the dead girl has still not been resolved. It was strange having the conversation with my parents about my earliest memories as neither of them remembered the fish, and they said they only vaguely remembered the police coming to the front door.