This is a character I’ve been playing with a little. I’m calling her the bumblebee girl.
I know what happens next! She’s a good explorer but those are slippery poles and there are so many strange things beneath the waves.
Drawn in the lounge on the comfy blue couch at 9pm, Monday 19th July, 2010. With vampires running around in the background. Hilarious!
Winter is very much here in Melbourne and so I was on a tram this evening coming back from Novel class, instead of on the bike. A useful thing about trams is how the mind wanders and curls. And how, for no reason whatsoever, the strangest drawings happen. I find this guy slightly disturbing although I definitely like the idea of having small nests hanging in your house. Which makes me wonder in a slightly Shakespearean way (plays within plays etc) does he live in one himself?
Drawn at 9.18 on a tram travelling along Swanston and Lygon Sts. Coloured pencil added later. Monday 12th July, 2010.
Time for another Quick-draw soon.
No excuse. None. Preoccupied, but not kidnapped. Working, but not in a jungle with no internet. I was teaching a class of Junior Fiction writers today and it took me back to some of my absolute favourite books. That was a segue from ‘kidnapped’. Did anyone else get an unrealistic expectation from childhood novels that there was an exciting dangerous life to be had, replete with smugglers, hooded strangers, mysterious happenings and cryptic cues? Even the odd secret passage or two. I certainly did and, I must say, have been mightily disappointed on that score. Perhaps that’s why I write…
Mondoodle drawn in an old notebook, Tuesday (damn) July 6, 2010 at 11.30am. In a tram.
And tell me your expectations from your childhood readings. Anyone actually try to get down a rabbit hole?
Yes, you are caught in a time loop. You thought it was Tuesday but it’s Monday again, and again. Which is good because it means it’s drawing day and I’m not late! If I was (and I’m still liking the time loop story) it was because I had an evil migraine on Sunday night which stuffed up my eyesight all Monday. Ergh. No fun at all and certainly not a productive day!
So here we are.
And here is a picture cos I love you guys.
Why have a parrot on your shoulder when you can have a terrapin?
I’m looking forward to seeing what happens around her as I finish it!
A little character that popped out tonight…
Drawn in the lounge near the heater (winter is definitely here), 9pm on Monday 21st June 2010.
She reminds me… I must see the Tim Burton exhibition soon. Anyone been?
I was writing today in a cafe and (everyone who has ever workshopped with me can laugh now) I did a new beginning to my novel. This is something I do (shuffles awkwardly) well, quite often. In fact I am known for multiple first chapters. It’s a talent. Someone’s got to have it. One day I will write a final chapter. Now that will be an exciting day! Anyway, I was writing a dream sequence. Yes, I know. Don’t worry, it won’t get into the novel, I was really just trying something out. But I liked the imagery. The character was walking on the ocean, blind fish beneath his feet and a huge moon hanging impossibly low overhead. It was day, but night as well.
And then I drew this. It happens a lot – I have a theme or an idea and it keeps coming out in different things until I am done with exploring it.
Drawn in my fifth moleskine, on the afternoon and evening of Monday 14 June, 2010. This was not a quick one – but as it was my last present-to-myself day off after the exhibition, I thought I’d just keep going.
A quick inexcusably late one… but done with the aid of new technology. I would have posted one done in Adobe Ideas from my ipad only it glitched and didn’t save it. Grrr. So this is done with Sketchbook Pro. And my finger.
Sketched on the iPad on Tuesday 8th June, 2010. I need a stylus!
I’m back at the Convent for the Sunday Arts Market today. It may be frosty but we’ll be inside, there’s coffee and food aplenty all around us and after this rain – the grounds should be lovely. Find us at the back of the big quadrangle, to the right of the bakery.
I’ll have some prints from the exhibition making their market debut! The rabbit and the lion. And also the remaining etching. All at market prices of course!
10-4pm, Abbotsford Convent, Community Room.
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After two weeks of being surrounded by my lovely alternate world, tomorrow is the last day of the exhibition so if you were thinking of coming to see it – now’s the time!
There are also a few new things to see. As I have been painting throughout the show there are now two new paintings. And I have hand-coloured some of the etchings of the elephant – with a gorgeous blue in the sea (saturated near the edges and fading to the middle) and some lovely colour on the girl.
The show has sold very well and it is with a little sadness that I will be saying farewell to my paintings. The choices have been so varied… depending on the connections people have made with them. The few remaining are still getting a lot of attention and are some of my favourite works. It’s been wonderful talking to people about them all.
I’ll be painting as usual for my last hurrah and it would be wonderful to see you. I’ve loved my time at No Vacancy and I’d like to thank you all again for your support – especially to those who have made a special effort to come from far and wide, and some locals who have visited me many times. I’ll miss you and my mini studio!
From 3pm onwards, people will be starting to take home their work so come before then, if you can.
Mondoodle 26-07-2010
Do I need to go somewhere different for a little while? Or did I just need to send a character there? A journey somewhere warm and interesting would be good. Somewhere peaceful… With long views of distant mountains and enormous clouds forming and unforming overhead.
Yes. That would be nice.
Drawn Monday July 26, 2010 at 8pm while thinking of something quite different altogether. While the brain’s away, the pencil will play…
Where would you go right now, if you could?