....slightly belated but at least I got in before the end of January!
So! I have been very very busy...
swimming, walking and generally lazing on this beautiful beach in the amazing Cape Conran,
becoming acquainted with the lovely inhabitants of the area,
and reading some fabulous books including this one which I absolutely loved. I found it fascinating and incredibly moving. It has stayed with me and I am still haunted by it, weeks after I finished it.
Then I got back and met up with a great group of extremely creative kids at Kingston Arts Centre for a fabulously fun "Artist for a Day" whole day summer workshop!
We had Drawing Races, made a wonderful mixed media Magic Beach Frieze, learnt and developed our Observational Drawing Skills, explored sand as a sculptural medium, using different sand blend recipes, made sculptures using wire and finished off putting it all together by creating our own Miniature Fairy Beach gardens! Phew! Unfortunately as so often happens in my workshops we are so busy making, doing, creating, chatting, singing, playing the piano and doing cartwheels (yes, really!) that I totally forget to take photos :-/
Thanks again to Kingston Arts for providing such a wonderful venue at the Shirley Burke Theatre in Parkdale and BIG THANKS to all who came and made it such a fabulous day. I will be posting the recipes for the sand clay we used and also for making your very own "kinetic" sand mixture over the next few days.
Today I finally got back into my studio and back to my work! yay! I was working on the initial designs for a large commission. It's a thread and fabric life drawing, working title "Cat Lady". I'm so excited about this one for many reasons, not least the fact that I am a great lover of cats myself! Pictured here is the first of a series of thread sketches for it that will help me work out my larger design.
Thats all for now! :-)