A NEW MONTH

APRIL 1,  two weeks till easter and another visit from sunny, luke and etta then trent is due to start on the bathroom!!!!   EEEE !! 😃   i'll get some help from sunny and luke moving the last things out of the bathroom/laundry and spare room before he starts

THEN on april 22 gail and i head off for a week of R&R at trinity beach.  can't wait.  i've been so busy the last few weeks.  No alcohol, (well, one on a sunday as a treat) good food, swimming, working in the studio sorting, moving stuff, assembling shelves and working on sonja's portrait.  also painting the walls and getting set up to start printing. 

i've sketched up two new bathers images, need to find some copper and do two drypoints for a few new versions, they should sell well down  around the peninsula. Working on one called 'saltie bitch', maybe a chine colle using a water photo for the pattern, maybe also  'bellarina' ?

 

I DECIDED TO DRIVE

TO LAKE LONSDALE

last weekend, delivering don's jumper. the sleeves were way too long so i unpicked the seams, unravelled the wool and re-knitted the bands that night, staying up late to watch Kack Irish. Don hadn't seen it and liked it so he's going to track down the seasons. 

The jumper looks

good on him.

Claire came over on Saturday and it was good to see her, i think it's pre-covid times since we've caught up 

I was breezing up the highway enjoying the scenery when suddenly i realised i'd headed up towards melbourne on automatic pilot instead of heading out the ballarat road.  so i cut around the back of the you yangs at little river and enjoyed some views i haven't seen before

I've been blessed with swans the past couple of weeks, lots of pics which will be reference for prints, they're so lovely and obviously are at home on fresh or salt water

these were on the lake at drysdale, photographed while i was waitingbfor a pizza on the way back from don's

then as i drove home along the portarlington esplanade i came across a group of swans on the water with the city skyline behind them.  perfectly positioned

as i went to turn into lilkenday ave with my 'special' pizza filling the car with savory aromas, i saw a shape way up the end of batman st.  further investigation found it to be two black swans ambling casually along the bitumen, looking to left and right as though they were assessing the real estate :0)