Oil And Wax

3 of those WIPs are now finished and in my Etsy shop

Everyday I go upstairs and do

a little bit more

though it is late in the afternoon

when it is a little cooler

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3 New paint Rag Books

Sold

New books in my Etsy shop

2 small 

and 1 large

for ideas on how to play

with them

go here

Mo Crow is doing lovely things

I hope everyone has a 

Great Festive Season

I will be up at 4.30 am

to get Dan off to work

but I will probably go 

back to bed for a couple of hours

Not sure if we will be having anything special to eat

as we were supposed to go last minute shopping this afternoon

but I just received a text saying

one of the guys at work has rolled the truck

and Dan may have to drive him to Hospital.

Makes things tricky

But there is always Mangoes

thankfully IGA and the bottle shop was still open

so all was ok in the end

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Multiple WIPs

At the moment I am playing with Oil paint

and cold wax medium

it takes a long time to dry

so I am working in multiples

I have several pieces 

of gessoed watercolour paper

taped to my table top

I add to them a little at a time

Some small pieces

I also have some large pieces happening

on improvised easels

foam esky lids on chairs

This is the biggest I am working on

at 100 x 100 cm

and on canvas 

so i will have to go easy on the wax

This is a piece on board

small works tucked underneath

and one on the bench top

Paper pieces live under the bench

so all in all I seem to have a lot happening

 but nothing finished

Hopefully over the Xmas season

I can get some work done

as Dan will be working

apparently prawns need to be fed every day

and this is one of the lovely

tropical Xmas trees

I can see from my balcony

a Poinciana

Delonix regia

originally from Madagascar

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Painting

Cloud-Walker 2

Cloud-Walker 1

Two new pieces up for sale in my Etsy shop

I had so much fun with these

I mixed up my own oil paint 

with a combination of 

earth pigments and linseed oil

or for the blue natural indigo powder

and I added the pigment to cold wax medium 

which I make myself 

beeswax and pure gum turpentine

I geesoed up some 300gsm watercolour paper

then taped them to the glass tabletop

and built up layers of colour

patiently waiting between

for them to dry

Until one day I looked

and said

that's it

finished

I do believe there shall be more

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Books Read, October and November

I only list books that I have read and enjoyed.

Disclaimer: Some of the links go to the Book Depository (BD) with whom I have an Affiliated Link  and so get 10% of the price you pay if you purchase through that link. Where the book is currently no longer  available there the links go to booko.com.au which is a favourite site that will show you where books are available and at what price. I do not get anything from here.

Books marked (KD) are through Amazon Kindle

November Books

Fiction

Eve Green: Susan Fletcher  BD

Abhorson: Garth Nix BD

Lirael: Garth Nix BD

Well Wished: Franny Billingsley BD

Tatsania’s Gift: Kim Falconer KD

The Pollyanna Plan: Talli Roland BD

A Swarming of Bees: Theresa Tomlinson BD

Non Fiction

The Martha Beck Collection: Martha Beck

BD

Autobiography

Tree Spirit Woman: Colleen Baldrica BD

Walking Home: Sonia Choquette

Online Workshops

Daily Oracle Card Reading: Colette Baron-Reid
Strawberry Full Moon, Year Planner, Vision Cards: Jamie Ridler

New Blogs

Jamie Ridler Studios

October Books

Fiction

Sabriel: Garth Nix BD

The Magicians: Lev Grossman BD

The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry: Gabrielle Zevin BD

The Caller: Juliet Marillier BD

Non Fiction

Map Art Lab: Jill K Berry BD