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
As a child of the 80’s and a child of rural NSW in the 80’s the Australian Classic TV show Play School and their useful box has greatly inspired me for years. For anyone unfamiliar with Play School the useful box was a magical box full of items like cereal boxes, egg cartons, plastic lids,
Wee Beasties and an Easter Display Read More »
Before the pandemic hit last year, I spent a month readying for my upcoming markets. Pouring resin to make new earrings, creating a new range of magnets, restocking the entire Harry Potter Jewellery collection, making wee beasties for easter. Exploring my painting style and trying out some new things! So many new and exciting things
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