The offer still stands

I mentioned once that the first ten Giclee prints to sell through my Etsy Shop would each receive a bonus print! Both as thanks for supporting a fledgling artist, and as incentive!

Here are some, on the way to their new owners...

The offer still stands you know :-)

China Doll

 

For an absent minded sketch, I like how this little china doll turned out. I think her face is the most "doll"-like of all my drawings so far - hence my un-imaginative title!

I don't usually reach for the yellow when colouring my pieces, but I had this colour pre-mixed on my palette and decided to try for a slightly Korean/Eastern type palette with yellow and fuschia. I like the result :-)

The Consult

A doodle that I decided I liked, and gave it some colour. I like the allure that something is happening here that we, the viewers, and even I, the artist, are not quite privy to. My mind imagines possible scenarios, each as mysterious as the next.

What is your impression? I'd love to hear...

Portrait of the Artist - Part 2

While we're on the subject of world renowned artists flocking to paint portraits of me (oh come on, I kid!)

Here is a fantastic portrait rendered of me by 4 year old Leda - watch out for her, she's going to take the art world by storm!!

I love this picture. It's hanging on my wall :-)

Portrait of the Artist

I count myself lucky, knowing as many talented and creative souls as I do. 

A very dear friend of mine, Laura Jade, gifted me with this emotive little portrait for my birthday. I feel the emotion she has captured here is exquisitely touching, and painfully apparent. I love it, and will always treasure it.

Laura only recently returned from a very long and thorough adventure of Europe. A year ago now, she sent me these two beautiful watercolours that she rendered during her travels.

She has been a huge inspiration, not only on my work but on my life as well,  and I urge you to visit her freshly finished website:

http://laurajade.com.au/

 

Those dears....

Recently I sent this little watercolour to a dear friend, you may have heard me gushing about her here often. Crystal Suh is the incredible talent that makes the ephemeral silk birds for Victoria Buckley Jewellery, going by the name of Sacrificial Rabbits.
Early last year she custom made me a unique bespoke fawn-nymph, and this was the little portrait I rendered of her.

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Also, check out this awesome poem published on soundzine, featured alongside my etching "mouse nest"

Shannon Quinn, "witch w/cheese seeks companion"

It's a great poem, and here is the link to the wonderful write up about me: monika viktoria

The heat.............

The heat is incredible. It's all around and it is penetrating and thick and sluggish and heavy.
42 degrees celcius, 7 o'clock at night and the sun burns my toes, blinds my eyes and presses itself opressively all over me.
Inside we do not own any fans (you know, the electrical kind) nor is our ramshackle house equipped with it's own airconditioning. Waving my little paper fan is useless, it just wafts hot air back into my face.
The cicada's screech their alien song, our parrots pant with their beaks held open. We use spray bottles to wet their feathers, even Beast, the cranky Sulphur Crested Cockatoo is willing to put up with this indignity. The finches were not so lucky today, no matter how we tried to keep them cool, the boys did not make it through the day.

This to me is an Australian Summer. Even when the bus overheated on the way home, and the bus after it did the same, trudging home in the scorching heat I couldn't help but smile.... This is when I feel most "at home" in Australia.

As a nice little respite, I share a photo taken of me by dear friend and artist Angela Rose of Butterfly Bones last week.... I'm trying to think cold thoughts,  imaginging I'm a mermaid....