Monday, July 8, 2013

Magic Ingredients

Pattern and motif ideas created from the most magical ingredients- food dye and white out.














Thursday, July 4, 2013

Van Trip

Mid week mini-adventure to the North West coast of Tasmania.  This is a route I have traveled many a times with my dad/sister as I was born in Burnie and still have family there.  Very different going with friends who are keen op-shoppers and belt out 90's 'classics' for the duration of the ride.













Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Playing in the attic



Hanging out at home with silly injuries making me sedentary. Plenty of time to play with ink, water colour and a thousand tiny lines.

Too much, too much

I have been overloaded over the past couple of weeks in terms of wanting to do creative things.  I keep seeing awesomeness everywhere and thinking 'that would be fun to make/draw/do' and set about starting a new project, only to think of something more worthy to spend my time on. It's not necessarily just because of the warmer weather and being out and about a lot more.  It has even become a matter of taking the odd screen shot of inspirational imagery while sitting around my bed watching movies/tv too.  It feels nice to be into constant drawing and making again, but a little but frantic all at once as I am lacking direction a bit.

Screen shot from 'That 70's Show' featuring a too-hard-to-resist knit design.

One project I was able to sink my teeth into over the past month has been creating small ornamental storage boxes using scientific wire and different coloured yarn during Full Drop's Harvest residency.  It was great to work on this project within the space, often with a lot of curiosity from passers by.  There is a fairly large elderly population in East Brunswick (where the Harvest studio is based), and I ended up getting a few lovely local ladies recognising the knit machine I was using.  It was great to have little chats about clothes they knitted in the 70s. 


Fun times!


Monday, February 18, 2013

Susanna Bauer

My heart has been set aflutter by the beautiful work of Susanna Bauer.  I'm always inspired by those who take the time to ponder notice the beauty in nature and the everyday:





Friday, February 15, 2013

Paste, Play, Pens, Paint, PRINT








What a satisfying week! FDC Designs getting printed to cork and enough time to spare to play, draw and dream in my sketchbook at work.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Harvest Residency week 1











Week one of Full Drop Co. Harvest Residency! Exposing screens, knitting with wire, new colour palettes.