'Hey Mum! Your Belly Button is an Outie too' - FINISHED

'Hey Mum! Your Belly Button is an Outie too'

oil on canvas

60 x 75cm



'Hey Mum! Your Belly Button is an Outie too' - Work in Progress

.....nearly finished

'Heh Mum! Your Belly Button is an Outie Too' - Work in Progress

'Hey Mum! Your Belly Button is an Outie too' - Work in Progress

 ....close-up of work done on face

'Hey Mum! Your Belly Button is an Outie too' - Work in Progress

 June next year...myself, Dona Norwood, Fiona Cross and Belinda Green, will be exhibitng at the new Caboolture Hub Art Gallery.  The theme of the exhibition will be 'Cradle to Grave'.

I'm really looking forward to seeing this completed...it's so cute!

oil on canvas

60 x 75cm

Pauline Adair Workshop

 Well we had our final class with Pauline...here's a few images from the day.

 Pauline Adair - below & top

 We decided that the arm on my 'nude', just didn't look right, so for now I've blurred it out.

I think she's finished....still not sure about the arm though.  Will leave it for now & think about it.

'Pauline Adair' Workshop - 'My' work in progress

It's been sometime since I've attended a workshop, then I heard that Pauline Adair was conducting a class with the Samford Art Group....so I jumped at the chance!!  I've been a fan of Paulines since I started painting, it was such a thrill for me to meet her in person & watch her paint.

....this was how much I completed from the days class. 

....I then continued with the piece at home.  Still a bit to do, but I'm really pleased how it's progressing.



'Visions of Central Queensland - no.4'

'Visions of Central Queensland - no.4'

oil on stretched canvas

30 x 30cm 

.....under-painting

'Visions of Central Queensland no.3'

'Visions of Central Queensland no.3'

oil on stretched canvas

30 x 30cm

.....under-painting

'Visions of Central Queensland - no.2'

 'Visions of Central Queensland - no.2'

oil on stretched canvas

30 x 30cm



.....under-painting

'Visions of Central Queensland - no.1'

'Visions of Central Queensland - no.1'

oil on stretched canvas

30 x 30cm 

....under-painting

'A Walk Through the Tall Grass' - Figurative Oil Painting

I know, I know....another painting with a 'girl and dog'....it's just that I've got so many great images from this day.  I promise that I'll post something different next time. 

I had a 'bit of fun' with the grass in the foreground....I used alot of paint & really got stuck into it with the palette knife.

'A Walk Through the Tall Grass'

oil on stretched canvas

61 x 76cm

'Checking the Fence Line' - Figurative Oil Painting

.....another painting with a girl and dog

'Checking the Fence Line'
oil on stretched canvs
35 x 46cm

'Creek's dry Fella's....no swimmin' today' - Figurative Oil Painting

'Creek's dry Fella's.....No swimmin' today'

oil on stretched canvas

76 x 51cm

.....my under-painting

'I Think We're Lost Mate' - Figurative Oil Painting

'I Think We're Lost Mate'

(Mt Isa Region-Central Queensland)

oil on stretched canvas

30.5 x 40.5cm

'Fence Sitting' - Figurative Oil Painting

'Fence Sitting'

oil on stretched canvas

30.5 x 40.5cm

'Hey! What about Me?' - Figurative OIl Painting

This is one of my first paintings from our June/July Holiday road trip of Central West Queensland. 

I was a very brave girl, driving this trip all on my own, with the company of my 2 daughters. 

For my 'overseas friends', this road trip can be very lonely.  You're looking at 100 to 300 kilometres (sometimes more!) from town to town, and not much in between.  Sometimes not even passing another vehicle....except the odd road train, semi-trailers with upto 5 trailers...now they're a challenge to overtake.  And then there's the wildlife to watch out for....kangaroos, emus, camels, flocks of birds, and then there is the  crows & eagles, picking at the poor dead animals on the road....it certainly was an experience.  It might not be everyone's idea of a holiday, but we thoroughly enoyed it.  The colours are amazing, there's some beautiful places, it's just you gotta drive so far to find them.  lol

'Hey! What about Me?'

oil on stretched canvas

70 x 55cm

(Mt Isa region)

Life Drawing - September

 .......the one above is my favourite of the day.

Tattersall's Club - Country to Coast Exhibition

I've been invited to exhibit in the Tattersall's Club, 'Country to Coast' Exhibition.  This Exhibition runs in conjunction with their 'Landscape Art Prize'.  Both exhibits will be on display to the public at Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle Street, Brisbane, weekdays 7am - 6pm, from September 12th to 23rd.
I'm exhibiting 2 oil paintings, one is a scene of the Glasshouse Mountains, and the other is a figurative scene of the various market stalls in the main street of Dayboro, on 'Dayboro Day'.

'Glasshouse Mountains'

oil on stretched canvas

51 x 61cm

'Dayboro Day Markets'

oil on stretched canvas

80x 54cm

Life Drawing - August

I so loved Life Drawing this month.  We had the most gorgeous model, with beautiful curves, and this amazing peacock tattoo running up her outer thigh, on her left hip....though, as the drawings were quick, I didn't have time to draw the tattoo...would really love a longer session with this model.

'Maroochy River, Cotton Tree, Sunshine Coast' - Oil Painting

'Maroochy River, Cotton Tree'

Sunshine Coast

Oil on Canvas Board

35 x 28cm

'Glasshouse Mountains' - Oil Painting

'Glasshouse Mountains'

Oil on canvas board

35 x 28cm

'Children Playing in the Creek' - Figurative Oil Painting

'Children Playing in the Creek'

Oil on stretched canvas

60 x 46cm

Untitled Oil Painting - Kids on the Beach

Untitled Oil On Canvas

'Kids on the Beach'

40 x 33cm

Life Drawing - May

I didn't have a really productive 'Life Drawing' session this month....I just wasn't 'with it'.  I'm not really sure what was my problem...the model was very interesting, but there was just so much going on.....she had braids with beads, bright pieces of material in her hair, a bongo drum...and to top it off, a live parrot on her shoulder! 
...anyway, I know we all have these days, it was still lots of fun though.