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 WREATH G I L D E D C A G E angel, why do you hide in your gilded cage … Continue reading GILDED CAGE
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, only to find myself disappointed with the results. (Although this could definitely be due to user error!) I used to … Continue reading Tiny Little Things + Joy
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 larger canvas. She spoke to me so much that I had to put aside the painting I was currently working … Continue reading MADEMOISELLE
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, and other things that you could collect at home and repurpose in art or craft projects. It was simple and … Continue reading Wee Beasties and an Easter Display
THE CLOUD SERIES At the beginning of June I shared this digital painting that I created on my iPad on my social media pages. 'Oh Hello Winter' had such an awesome response I decided to create a whole series of small paintings (approx a5 size) based on clouds and maybe branching out to other sky based things! And I love how much these little paintings have made me smile over the last couple of months … Continue reading The Cloud Series
MAKE A TERRARIUM. The one thing I hear the most often about my Wee Beasties after I am told how damn cute they are is "What do you do with them?" During Julys virtual Handmade Canberra Market I made a quick video about five ways you may use a wee beastie and I thought I would do a little series of posts about what you may do with a wee beastie - that is what … Continue reading What DO you do with Wee Beasties?
During Iso life became so simplified. Sure we had the added pressure of homeschooling and the worry and anxiety of the unknown but we didn't have the seemingly endless running around that we were used to. Life slowed down and I realised that even though a lot of this running around is our choice I liked the simplified feeling of the lockdown. Once the terrible trio started back at school and life is sort of … Continue reading Keep it Simple Sweetheart Project
A couple of years ago I saw this super cute Easter Bunting project which I had wanted to do with the terrible trio, but I always seemed to run out of time to do it. However with the circumstances the way they are we have heaps of time! And you can make some too! I printed off the bunny template on some cheap and nasty water colour paper that I had lying around - it … Continue reading Invite some whimsy into Easter
If you are a LilliBean facebook or insta follower you will have seen my struggles to capture the Harry Potter gang in paint. In theory they should be fairly simple to do - Bean adores Harry Potter so I have read all the books and seen the movies several times but I think I have psyched myself a little bit. The first four paintings I ended up repainting half way through because I wasn't happy … Continue reading NEW FAN ART {harry potter}
What is this you ask? A super secret page? And exactly what do you have on a super secret page?? For a very, very, very long time, I have wanted to reward my loyal customers and newsletter readers. Every now and then in my emails I would send them a free download or a discount code to use in the online shop. But I wanted to do more. So I created a page on the … Continue reading A SUPER SECRET PAGE?
