Time for a break…

You’ve got to LOVE Mondays! A new week, a new start, a new beginning 🙂 What a way to start a day….with a positive attitude and a healthy, delicious, yummy beverage.

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Art Prizes news for this July

Brisbane Art Prize – closing 30.06.2016
The Lynx Prize – closing 06.07.2016
Clearwater Sculpture Prize, closing 27.07.2016
Master of Art International – closing 29.07.2016
Mosman Art Prize – closing 08.08.2017
A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholariship & Art Prize – closing 03.10.2016
Thailand Painting Holidays
Two cultural tours in 2017 with Gabrielle Jones to Rajasthan, India and Burgundy, France.

A large number of art prizes are closing their Call for Entries over the next week, so get your entries in quickly. These prizes include the following:
Woollahra Small Sculpture 01.07.2016
The Singleton Art Prize 01.07.2016
The M Collection Art Award 01.07.2016
Yerring Station 04.07.2016
Incinerator Art Prize 04.07.2016
Pirtek Still Life Prize 06.07.2016
Lynx Prize (international) 06.07.2016
Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 08.07.2016
Art Gemini Prize (International) 10.07.2016

Our congratulations to recent art prize winners:

Minna Gilligan, winner of the Nillumbik Prize, $5000
Indigo Hanlee, joint winner with Michael Thomas Hill, Chippendale New World Art Prize, $10,000.
Catherine Savage, winner, Stanthorpe Art Festival, $20,000
Jessica Roelofs, winner, Cardwell Art Prize
Julie de Ville, winner, Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, $30,000
Vittoria Oriana winner of the Kogarah Art Prize, $10,000
Harry Nankin, winner of the SCOPE Galleries Art Award, $5,000
Nancy Kiwat, winner of the Gab Itui Indigenous Art Award, $7,000
Scott Breton, winner of the Lethbridge 10,000, $10,000
Sally Robinson, winner of the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Prize, $50,000There are still a lot of prizes currently calling for entries – get organised this year and go to our website at art-prizes.com to check them out. You can print out the art prizes calendar by downloading the updated Art Prizes Planner. BTW: we currently have 190 prizes listed for 2016 and the number of prizes is growing each day.

Swan Hill celebrates culture

As a child growing up in the Mallee over three decades ago, I wouldn’t exactly say that the Swan Hill region was culturally diverse. However, after returning to the area five years previously with …

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The Eagle and the Hawk

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More ATC’s

Houses

Zentangle Animals

ATC’s

Australian Landscape is the theme for these trading cards I am posting out tomorrow. Artist trading cards (ATCs) are tiny … they are miniature artworks about the same size as modern trading cards 2 ¹⁄₂ x 3 ¹⁄₂ inches (64 mm × 89 mm)

These 3 are inspired by local Mallee scenery and created with watercolour/inktense pencil and pigma ink pen.

Summertime drawing

I am fortunate that although I live in a very hot climate I have air conditioning and a pool…. finally getting some time to draw again after a very busy holiday season! I had a great afternoon in a drawing workshop with Caroline Ellis. I have never tried drawing an animal previously… so here is my first pastel and first animal drawing!

He certainly has attitude. Long way to go but I enjoyed the challenge !

Attitude

Thought it was time to add a few more images from my 5 minute sketch series...”Woman with Attitude” These are sold as greeting cards. If you are interested They are $5 each including P&H. Paypal accepted, contact me for details 🙂

Tangling to pass the time

The past year has been filled with drama, pain and excitement. Caring for 3 of my grandchildren for over a year has been both rewarding and heartbreaking. Two new grandchildren have also been born this year. Both are beautiful and thriving!

Here are some more of my tangles ….