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Canetoads in my Coffee
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Moving to the Wild Far North recently has reignited my passion for creating - drawings, paintings, sculpture, & cheescakes. We live nestled between Deep Creek, Deadman's Gully, & the beautiful Coral Sea, along with crocodiles, pythons & canetoads.
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Everybody's painting
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 3 days ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Lots of painting going on this weekend. Above is my watercolour Work In Progress. Lots of glazes and now the fun part of adding speckles. Using some very ancient tubes of Winsor & Newton, and one very new one. The paint was still wonderfully rich, even after?”aging” for decades. That’s the beauty of watercolour- there’s never any lost paint.
Also lots of wonderful paintings by my workshop students today. Here’s Naomi with her first pastel painting of Green...
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Mother's day treasures
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 6 days ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I hope everyone was thoroughly spoilt on Mother’s day – I certainly was. Gifts that were just my thing – rose bushes, teacups (some with kingfishers!), orchids, bromeliads and as Jez put it, “Two of your favourite things combined mum – chocolate and seashells!” As you can see, not very many left…
We went bushwalking by the lake in the morning, saw black swans, kangaroos, a hidden blue tongue and stumbled upon some intriguing caves. So happy when I...
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The Great Eel Rescue
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 1 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
A longtime reader has asked me to show an adventure from my old blog, some of you may recall it – there was lots of rain and slime and slippery things. The photos were small on the other blog, so the image quality may not be as sharp, but I’m sure you’ll get the picture.
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Super Moon = Super High Tide
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Seaweed watercolour on hibiscus tea dyed paper
Sunday’s Super Moon made waves in more ways than one. Combined with a storm front, the full moon high tide was spectacularly?huge. The entire beach had been covered with waves, the dune plants being washed, and the boardwalk?scattered with?seaweed. Great for gathering seaweeds and algaes. Not so good for seashells. There was not a one to be seen – I think they were buried – the beach was covered in an extra 2 foot of sand.
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May days
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 2 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Storms and lovely rain lashing the coast. Bush, beach and gardens soaking it up thirstily. Extra high tides thanks to the Supermoon on Sunday (moon closest to earth for the year). A beautiful blue tinge to Luna as she rose?up above?the stormcloud bank.
Rain?pelted the windows as we worked during the weekend pastel workshop. New and old students producing amazing work again.
Sunsets, reflections, shadows and waves – all beautifully portrayed in pastel.
New students to pastel really did...
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How the toadstool got it's name
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 2 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Some of you may remember my first blog, started way back in 2007, just after we’d moved to the Tropics. This blog was for family and friends to follow our adventures in the Far North, and eventually led to the creation of my current Artist’s Blog I write today. Lots of frog and toad talk in recent days had me digging out screen shots from the old blog. A bit of cut and paste and here is the orginal post again. ?Heavy rain is on the way – I hear croaking!
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Love lost
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 3 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
A short time ago I found a piece of extra special treasure at my local beach. It was just on sunset, and I saw something sparkling amongst the seaweed and shells at the waterline – a ?titanium, gold and diamond wedding band. I have advertised in the “Lost & Found” section of local and state newspapers, but no response so far. So if anyone out there recognises this ring, please let me know.
Of course it may not have been lost here. With our strong currents, and the...
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Wet wet wet
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 3 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
“River’s Song”???? Acrylic on canvas??? 91cm x 91cm (3ft x 3 ft)
Another river piece finished in time for the City of Wanneroo Art Awards, which opens Friday Night. I’ll satin varnish it to bring out the deep richness of the colours,?the matt finish paint can seem a little washed out without it. The title of this piece did not hit me until a couple of days ago; Dr Who Fans will recognise the unconscious reference!
Lots of splish splashing about, with the first real rain...
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Garden Studio
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 3 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Visitors to my place have?little choice – they are sat down and pastels placed in their hands. Arty sisters Melina and Diane spent morning tea time putting pastels down on paper, fuelled by cups of tea and tasty treats. Thank you girls for a lovely morning, and the pastries!
It’s lovely to be painting in the garden again. I went to the Garden show last week and brought home some real treasures. I’m sure they will be appearing on canvas and paper very soon. I am deeply in...
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Demonstration evening
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 1 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Recently I was asked to demonstrate at the evening meeting of the Wanneroo Art Society. They were a lovely group, around 70 people this particular evening, so I was very nervous!
I started with some acrylic painting, followed by a pastel demo of a horse’s eye, and then some show and tell with watercolour and claybord.
An hour never passed so quickly in my life! Thank you to the Society for inviting me, keep on painting everyone!
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