Woman tying her laces

Collage and ink 21 x 29.7cm

Woman adjusting her shoe

Collage and gouache 29 x 42cm

On the window sill

Collage 29.7 x 21cm

April flowers

Collage 29.7 x 21cm

Annique

Gouache 42 x 30cm

This is the last life drawing/painting session to be held in our studios before Easter and I go on holidays.

April cheer

Collage 29.7 x 21cm

On yellow

Collage 21 x 29.7cm

I do recommend collage: getting glue on the fingers, snip, snip, recycling old magazines, tearing pages.  It's the gardeners equivalent of sinking your hands in the soil.  Even better to do both but maybe not at the same time!

Tea with lemon

Collage 211 x 29.7cm

Happiness is sitting down with a pair of scissors, a glue stick and making a collage.

A wonderful artist and teacher of mine introduced collage to me as a way of simplifying, thinking about shapes and working out a composition.

The girl in the hat

Gouache on canvas paper 42 x  29cm

We have been hiring a model at the studio every Friday.  However this week we decided to have just the one pose and clothed. The model kindly brought in a selection of hats and dresses for us to choose.  It was a lot of fun and the overwhelming vote is to do it again, especially during the winter months when the studio is very cold (even with heaters).

Finalist in the Georges River 2019 Art Show.

Old river yearns for salt

Gouache 29.7 x 42cm

This is the last of the river series for awhile.

Quiet for now

Gouache 29.7 x 42cm

Home of the Gilgie

Gouache 21 x 29cm

For those who don't know, a Gilgie is a fresh water crayfish found in the South West of Western Australia.