Today I am share the third of 5 paintings created on wooden disks. Last year I bought five large round wooden disks from our local hardware shop. At the time I didn’t really have a plan, but I was also slightly enamoured with wreaths, and starting to follow the moon phases. Earlier this year I […]
This painting seemed to take months. Actually it did take months! Each time I worked on it, I would take infinitesimally small steps forward, and end the session feeling frustrated and lost. But I think the end result was worth it. This is the second of my wooden disk paintings – the first being the CRYSTAL
After a mammoth three year procrastination I bit the bullet and sat down for a couple of days to design and create my Patreon site. I have wanted to create a simple subscription based service for ages and I felt that Patreon was able to help me with that. There are four membership levels
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It’s was perfectly cold and miserable mid winters day when I wrote this, but I love this time of year. Against the back drop of heavy grey skies everything seems much more vibrant and alive with colour. I find myself constantly stopping on my walks trying to capture the vibrancy and darkness with my phone’s camera,
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JULY 2021 UPDATE. 2021 saw the addition of an art journalling practice to my weekly rituals. I have written about it in depth here . Today I want to share some more of the journal pages I have been creating lately. Some of which have inspired new larger paintings. I am so happy I had added
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Adding a art journalling practice to my day has really helped with my creative ebbs and flows, and I find that often paintings I have made in my art journal are begging to be recreated into larger paintings. Mademoiselle was one of these paintings. Starting as a quick paint and then graduating to the a
As part of the Handmade Canberra (now Handmade Australia) virtual markets in May I did an hour live paint session on Facebook. I started Astra and spent the rest of the weekend finishing her off. She was inspired by a sketch I did in my car while I was waiting for the girls to finish
Back over the summer, I realised how much I missed messing around in my art journals, just smooshing paint and painting for fun. I had also been following a few social accounts where people had started a daily practices of writing down affirmations for the day, gratitude lists, and daily mantras. So I decided to
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It’s been a minute since I shared some new art here on my website – everything in Casa da Mac seems to be moving at light speed. But despite our busy household, I have managed to cling to my new practises of creating art almost every day. If it isn’t a quick journal page (I