New Work off to WA

4 of 9 new small works hot wax on paper 

with hand made oil paint

They will be in an exhibition

at Moombaki

a very nice winery 

just around the corner from home

as part of 

The Great Southern Art and Craft Trail

running from September 27th

to October 12th

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Open Studio

This is the cover of the sample book
I have been working on

It is composed prinicaply of teabags
and a semi transparent paper I have
Fully transparent when covered in wax

I am exploring different ways of working with them

Some are fully covered with the teabag and some only partially

Some feature Xanthorrhoea Resn

each has the page cut out behind them
so I can see the light coming through

Stitch

As I am working on a series
that will be framed in old bee frames

I love the detail

when I view them
placed in front of a window

But the detail changes
when the light is removed

Giving a whole different look at night

The reason for all this activity
is the upcoming
Great Southern Art Trail
for which I will be opening my
studio to the public
More details shortly

Above pigments and resin
ready for sale

 

Study Tea

Dan is currently in his last week of his first semester of his Honours Year at Uni. Consequently a lot of tea is being drunk. I am making the most of this by playing with them all.

This is the bowl I use for dyeing 

with a few small rusty pieces in the bottom

and here are a few taking a bath

I vary the ingredients

sometimes I add a little

from my jars of metho and natural dye pigment

After their bath

thye lie around on water colour paper

to dry

Opened up and tea removed

a rainbow of tea bags

the bonus is the dyed

watercolour paper

which I am making into little books

I think I will also add some

tea bags to the inside

this little tea bag

has been rusted

indigoed

and waxed

inspiration for something larger

I have a few of these frames

they are from bee hives

thrown away at the local tip

I plan an exhibtion of them

in my studio

for the

Southern Art & Craft Trail

Coming up at the end of

September

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In the Studio Today

coffee rock

picked up off the driveway

going to collect the mail

All ground up

and rubbed into paper

wet and dry

Here I am playing with what to put in the brochure

for the Great Southern Art Trail

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