new blog

Hiya and welcome to my new blog.  It is here I want to share my creative journey with all who want to stop by and share it with me.   

A bit about me, I am a happily married, nearly 50 years wise, mother to three great children and I work full time, nearly 30 years in mental health.  I was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, but we now live in tropical Darwin, Northern Territory and I love it here, although the heat can be tough, and seems to be getting tougher and I get older :)  My husband and I are currently building a 40 foot steel yacht - our retirement plan! We are about half way through, and plan to live aboard and semi retire when it is done. I will then be a mixed media artist on a boat! Sounds like a plan and a good future blog name :-)

I have always loved art and crafting.  Since I was little I have always hand made things, drawn and painted.  I loved nothing more than to lock myself away from the world and create, and I still love this now. It does make me a bit of a hermit though.  My love for mixed media and drawing and painting has developed later in life, and really deepened with the blooming of the art world on the internet and being able to access so much inspiring art from fabulous artists around the globe.  

I love whimsical, fun, art with positive and uplifting messages, but also surrealism, sometimes dark art, and any art that stirs my emotions. I love to work with acrylics, pencils, watercolour pencils, pens, inks, papers, stamps and crayons, and have just started to explore watercolour. I would love to try oils at some stage, they intrigue me! Having access to so many great artists and workshops online, there is a never ending supply of instruction and inspiration to draw on, and with this comes the need for copious amounts of art supplies!!  I just LOVE art supplies and these are my one true addiction in life.  I want every single thing and in every single colour!!! 

I will try to post all of the art I make, without censorship of my inner critic :)   Some of it will be inspired by the workshops I do, but I will always credit the artists who inspire what I create.

I really don't know what this journey will bring, but I am happy to be on it and I'm happy to share it with you.

Here are some pics to start with. 

The first one is inspired by Tam from Willowing.org and is part of Lifebook 2016 (see side bar for link). Week 1. 

The rest are practice and playing....