NEW PROUD POSSESSION

I AM NOW PROUD OWNER of a beautiful kate hudson linocut

- it's sitting up on the  green bureau at the end of my bed, 

one of the first things i see when i wake up in the morning :0)

CAL'S NEW BIKE SEAT

TOOTHY BUSINESS

I LOST A CROWN - luckily it came out in one neat piece so a  visit to the dentist fixed that - he just stuck it back in.  but there's lots of bad news of very expensive implant work that needs to be done.  sigh, one thing after another.
i spent the afternoon at home doing another illustration for the picture book i'm working on.  love doing these monoprints.
also gathering lots of reference for central australian animals, flash floods, landscape etc.

MORE RAIN

 IT'S BEEN 

RAINING MORE 

- more than since

i've moved here.

everything's so

green and lush.

it's wonderful

DRAWING DAY

SUNDAY - I went to a new drawing group in nearby Dareton, a wonderful location on an old guide hall,  a large space with a fireplace up one end, fire blazing, seven of us for an 'endurance drawing day', from 9.30 till 4.  we all just took along what we wanted and some food.  but there was an extraordinary spread of lunch, three kinds of soup, club sandwiches, a meat in pastry roll, cake.  it was terrific, and so good to put a whole day aside to draw. 

 kate, a very active drawer, and daughter stephanie modelling for her

                    denise, who has the wonderful roses i love so much

        it felt a bit like being invited into someone's home

i got out all my
old pics of
cemetery
angels, started
familiarising
myself with
them





kate was drawing
in charcoal - in
bare feet. the 
floor was a 
work of art
in itself. 

                          lovely young stephanie posed for a couple of
                                     pics.  i may use her in swan lake
  

A DAY OF FRUSTRATION

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i spent all day trying to get this newsletter to come out the right size on everyone's computer, seems like it was ok all the time, just the work computer that was looking so wrong,   baDONG!







good to have an extra day or work, and it was FFRRRREEEZING, so i was happy to be inside with the heating on.

a day with watercolour

IT'S RAINING AGAIN

IT'S 6.50am  i'm sitting in bed feeling pleased with myself.  i've just sent the story off to the magazine, my first ever article and i'm happy with it. hope they leave it alone, i'm worried that they may change things,  fingers crossed.
AND . . .  i'm listening to rain again.  not much expected but it'll just top up the great downpour of two days ago. a little freshener-upper...  a quiet day at home finishing a one-off illustration, then into mildura for a roller derby fundraiser at the brewery, and i think i'll head over to the cinema to see johnny
depp in transcendence.  Grand Budapest hotel is on too, i'll see that during the week. working at the vault tomorrow.



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SELF INDULGENCE

A CAL-A-THON.     Pics from sayaka's facebook page over the past two weeks.  the moustache is still around :-\

pics taken
during the visit
of joe, who
worked in 
rene's shop
for a long
time - a gorgeous
boy.  this is not
him - i think
this is the local
barista 

cal is already
a connoisseur of
coffee houses,
if not coffee :0)

with sayaka and joe 

 skateboarding in the street

 i love 

 this supermarket

- it's a mass of great

signage and great 

little cutesie cartoon

characters on all

the boxes. so much

colour you don't

know where to start

shopping - too much

of everything.

also a connoisseur of restaurants

RAIN RAIN RAIN

IT BUCKETED DOWN all day yesterday and i spent a pleasant day paring down my story about sonja.  it's pretty well done and i think it's working.    I've sent it off to auntie denise for a cut and polish, some comment at least.  it's due friday.

maggies enjoy the damp - one real, one wood

rainclouds over the lock, what a sight.  everything's beautifully soaked.

SISTERS

freddie took this shot of jenny and i having a peaceful 

doze on the Rothbury riverboat on easter weekend

A BIT OF FLUFF

I took a 'thelma' selfie in
my new sunglasses - 
it's a facebook challenge
to past art vault artist-in-
residence sophie gralton
who has photos of herself
posted in innumerable
pairs of huge trendy
glasses.

these tortoiseshell babies
were bought for only 
$6 at the menindi 
supermarket on the
pooncarie road trip
back from broken hill.
over to you, sophie.

BROKEN HILL AGAIN

I FORGOT to post the street sign pics, the whackiest names i've seen for a long time

A DAY OF WRITING

A GOOD DAY - spent the morning working on the article on Sonja and met her for lunch at stefano's for some extra material. her story of being put into welfare and being brought up in white foster homes is heartbreaking, i'm going to be a mess listening to the tape again tomorrow.  Sonja's lovely, she must be very strong.

                             sonja in at the art vault in front of a cherry hood watercolour