Recent

I have a folder on my desktop titled 'recent' where I throw in photos that don't belong anywhere else.  Over time those photos become less and less recent until it comes to a point (today!) where I decide to just compile them all into one extremely random blog post! So that's what I have for you today!

 I woke up one morning to our back yard being covered in amazing fog *runs to grab camera*

A little bat that Ben rescued, I never really thought that bats could fall into the cute category but this guy was adorable!

 Emaya and a Ben Paste-up 

Another shot of the bat on Ben's hoodie - look at its tiny feet!

 Ben with one of his artworks made up as a print

 *cue* many photos of the horses in our backyard

 More Ben art!

 More horses!

 Backyard fires!

And the most amazing house boat cat!

I was out shooting a wedding on a dock in Brisbane and there was a cat on one of the boats!! I quickly turned my camera to take a few sneaky shots before turning it back on the bride and groom :P

 I'm sure I've mentioned before but green tree frogs are in my top 5 favourite animal category!!

 The day before Ben left, he wanted to go for one last skate and I was feeling very attached to him so I went along for the ride and got to hang out with all the cool kids for a second :P

 Shooting a mask Ben made

 Baby goanna rescue time!

 Me at Port Macquarie

 More Ben

and finishing off with an epic storm that was coming over our backyard!

In actual recent news, our moving house adventures are back on, so in the next few months I'll be blogging from a new location - which is scary and fun all in one!

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Love Zine Giveaway Reminder

Just a reminder you have 2 days left to enter the giveaway, all you need to do is leave your email at this blog post here! I'll be drawing the name out of the hat on Tuesday :)

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Bought/gift/made /04

Time to share another bought/gift/made entry :)

If you follow me on Instagram you may of seen some shots of Ben and I marbling paper :) I've already used part of a sheet for something fun - stay tuned!

Some purple amethyst I bought - always drawn to the purples :)

And some stickers gifted to me, from Ben, the two outer stickers are Ben's designs and the inner cat claw is from a Japanese artist called blot :)

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Humble Dumpling Art Comp

So Ben has a comp running on his facebook page at the moment, it involves picking one of his artworks and doing your own interpretation on it. Obviously I'm not in it to win (Ben gifts me with way too many goodies as it is) but I still wanted to be involved! 

I ended up choosing two of his clay creatures as inspiration and then did a fun little sketch of the two. I'm feeling especially loving since Ben's gone so I think the piece represents that plus it ended up being super Miss Van inspired as my artworks tend to be!

There is still a week left to enter and some fun goodies up for grab, so if your keen you can head over here for all the info.

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Ben's Art Happening

I'm sure I yack on a lot about Ben and his art but I thought it would be a fun to show you guys some of his art happenings :) When we first met (online) he said he loved drawing and sent me through some of his pieces. I remember opening that email and having very low expectations of what I was about to see. Of course I was pleasantly surprised and should of never doubted he'd be an amazing artist :) This year he took a bold move and decided to go to school for ceramics and has landed a bunch of fun stuff, like being asked to show his pieces at the Cooroy Butter Factory (turned art gallery!).

He's been experimenting with some larger size sculptural pieces which are probably my favourite size!

He also makes super beautiful necklaces - you might remember on that I rocked on my Mermaid Shoot here.

It's fun to see his 2-d style translate into 3-d, I'm not even sure which I prefer, actually that's a lie out of all his creative pursuits I always tell him his poetry is my favourite (by the smallest percent!) I need to share some in the future :)

Ben is involved in a crew called SFP, which comprises of Ben and three other artists.  A few months back they held a group exhibition together in Maroochydore down at the Square & Friends gallery :)

One of the dudes is Shiroi Usagi who is responsible for those three dudes above :)

The Vikings and skateboard is by Phil B who I'm sure I've mentioned before :)

They also did a live graff mural on opening night which was fun :)

Another Phil skateboard piece

And Ben's Robot pieces his did the exhibition. He has what I wish I had, the patience and steady hand to do the finest line work - super jealous!

The three guys all lined up :)

Ben also had some ceramics in this exhibition too :)

Another robot close up and a skateboard on the right by Dubse (another member of the crew)

Phil definitely loves his Vikings 

Phil, Ben and Dubse, working hard, well at least Dubse on the end is :)

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