Vintage Seaside

    'Vintage Seaside' pencil on vintage cotton

Girls in Galoshes

     'Girls in Galoshes' - Pencil on board and linen

One from the Moleskine - Bunnies on the Brain

Experi-Mental

I've been experimenting with a slightly more abstracted style then I normally draw with. And then the paints came out. I hate painting. Only because I always feel I ruin my drawings once they're painted. Must practice some more. Practice, practice, practice...

Resolutions - Making Progress

Remember how I said one of my 'resolutions' (if I have to call it that), is to get a bit more serious about my drawing and start an online shop? Well yesterday I took a major leap in that direction because I got a new toy.

After a lot of research and moollah, I am now the very excited new owner of a Canon Pixma Pro 9500 mark II printer, which in a nutshell means when it comes to getting top quality prints made of my drawings, I can do it myself instead of forking out squillions for someone else to do it. I have full control. Yusss! It has 10 pigment ink cartridges so the prints won't fade like regular home printer ink, and it's designed especially for photography and fine art printing, both A4 and A3. Yikes! Do I sound like a walking sales brochure much?

So here's to the start of my little enterprise. Just gotta pull finger and get some things drawn that are suitable for selling!

One From the Moleskine

Hummingbirds

No Frills

Penned Poppets

Is Anyone Home?

Abandoned Log House, Penticton - A Rough Sketch

A dilapidated old log house in the Penticton Native Band Indian Reserve, on the way to Apex ski field.

Streetscape in Victoria, BC - A Rough Sketch

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Deerest

Every day at dawn and dusk, the deer arrive. And now that the weather is warming up, the babies are here too.

They tottle around on their spindly legs; unsure, a little unsteady, and for now wildly out of proportion with their little speckled bodies.

They are not yet used to us humans, so they bounce and boing along after their Mamas like Pepe Le Piu would do, whenever we disturb their clover munching.

Love You, Fush

My nickname, (well one of) is 'Fush'. C developed this name for me over the course of 2009, after my Mum sent us a page cut out of a Wellington newspaper with an alphabet written out in the way Australians think New Zealanders' speak... ie. 'F' is for 'Fush' - mostly eaten with chups... 'K' is for 'Kuds' - short for chuldrun...

This piece of lingual finery was put on the fridge and was often a talking point whenever we had visitors.

So somehow, I became 'Fush'. It is so rare for me to hear him call me by my full name anymore that when I do, it is usually because he's pissed off that I've left my art stuff all over the floor again or something along those lines...

It makes me smile every time he says it... ' Love you, Fush'.

Empress Hotel, Victoria - A Rough Sketch

A Shoe In

We have only been away for two weeks, but somehow we have ended up with the hugest pile of shoes next to the door in our caravan. Rain soacked, dirt covered shoes. So today, being a rainy, indoors day, I decided to draw them.

Doodling Houses

A quiet, old avenue from somewhere in my mind...

Two Rabbits

A work in progress... maybe...

Apis Mellifera

When my Dad asked me a few weeks ago if I would draw a honey bee for him to use on the Wellington Beekeepers' Association certificates, I thought 'sure, should be easy'.

Yeah right. They are so organic and fuzzy and made up of lots of little parts and if you draw it slightly wonky it looks more like a little alien then a bee!

I worked myself up quite a bit in frustration trying to draw it, and I'm still not entirely happy.

I feel better knowing the drawing will be shrunk down teeny tiny to go in the corner of the certificate.

I think I'll steer clear of bees from now on, both in the real life and the drawing sense.

Re-found

Oh I've just rediscovered an old sketch from about a year ago. I drew this sitting on the edge of the cliffs at Greenhead, WA. Now if only I was any good at watercolour I think that would top this off. Failing that, I might have a go with some acrylics...