Mermaid Jewels

I won't lie I go through stages of loving different creative mediums more than others and yup, art fell somewhere by the wayside when I got photography obsessed! This recent painting I'm sharing today reminded me of how much I love it! I got into my head I wanted a fun beach/boho themed work for our bathroom - so that was the starting point and then I got re-obsessed with Mermaids (thanks Damaris!) and it all went from there.

We live in a rental so at the moment I don't even have it hanging up but rather loving leaning against a wall! I'm also super proud because I made the frame myself, it may not match up 100% perfectly in the corners but I'm stoked I pulled it all together :)

I'm really inspired to do more art but my head is always full of way too many ideas and sometimes I have to just focus on one thing to get anything done - do other people suffer this too?

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Weekly Art Challenge - Fox

When we first met, Ben and I started a weekly art challenge that ended after around six weeks - 
hey commitment is hard :p 

Recently, we've both been going through art slumps so we decided to bring back the art challenge as a fun way for us to make art and also (just quietly from me) to stay connected whilst we're apart. I got to pick the first weeks theme, which no doubt was going to be something cute - meet Mr. fennec fox below!

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And here what I ended up creating - I initially sketched him, thinking I'd work more on him over the week but got super excited, whipped out my paints and finished him in a few hours

It's nice to be drawing again!

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Australia Day at Loft

The lovely Kerrie, got me out of the house for Australia Day, she was set to make a stop motion of a live painting gig happening at a cool trendy bar called loft! Count me in :) It was super fun and a good way to spend a rainey Australia Day. The art was incredible and such lovely peeps. My only criticism being the stairs to get up to there but that's a very small complaint!

Can't wait to see Kerrie's stop motion, I unfortunately didn't get much of Benjamin's Emu but it was super fantastic, lots of texture and detail went into it and rad colours. I was luckily positioned right in front of Cezary's kangaroo, so my pictures are definitely Kangaroo biased due to my current lack of movement (damn ankle) :p I think I found a new favourite artist in Cezary Slulgis, his line making and texture is rad, something im definitely drawn to in art!

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Molly

A recent doggie, art commission gave me the solution to the problem of
"What to get for Grandma's birthday?"
Grandma had not-so-subtly hinted at something handmade so it made sense to paint her a picture!  Molly was a much loved dog of Grandma's...

The lovely Heather assisted me in finding a photo of Molly and then I got onto drawing her

really happy with how she turned out and Grandma was thrilled, which in the end is all that matters!

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