KNIT in Public

KNIT in PUBLIC Come out of the closet and knit in public places! At the Bay Room, Uniting Church Queenscliff, the weekend of the 9/10 June. At ME, Mc Kenzie Ebbles Foodstore, Hobson St Queenscliff, Thursday 14 June, starting in the afternoon and into the evening, open fire, all sorts of eats available. During the month of June groups of knitters will be brazenly strutting their stuff at the various coffee venues in the Borough! Look out for them.

New Year 2012

Highlights of the welcoming of the New Year 2012...............the markmaking of the unknown. These anonymous marks are they vandalism or the silent cry of the disaffected, the dissident, the disenfranchised?

Return to the NEST

Today when having a sort through one of my folios I found a drypoint etching from 1997 with a favourite motif, a NEST. It seems we return, loop, travel in circles! There seems repeating patterns in history as well as repeating patterns in our lives.  Round and round we go. It is always a comforting pattern though to return to the NEST!

Drypoint is a beautiful form of intaglio printmaking. Lines are drawn into metal or in this case a plastic with a sharp instrument. The plate is inked up and then cleaned and the ink stays in the grooves. The lines are 'soft' and some ink ( plate tone ) can be left on the plate before printing to create a more painterly effect to the finished print.

We will be doing a Summer School, Introduction to Printmaking, in January 2012. The drypoint technique will be covered, as well as techniques of relief printing. Printing, with and without a press will be explored in the workshop. There is a one day drawing class before the printing workshop with an emphasis on drawing approaches that link with printmaking. 

News

Watch this space....things are happening

Tasmanian Shabby Chic

 Oh how I love the place....Bushy Park Community Hall and at a nearby cottage, socks drying on a clothes line under the veranda. The Bushy Park Hall had lots of treasures for sale...old china, jams, fresh eggs, books and ambience (not for sale, priceless!). The locals were raising funds for repairs to the beautiful old building. 

A Yellow Day (CAUTION)

              DANGER     Paint     Bin Lid     T- Towel   Leaf       Yellow Tomatoes      Fish and Chips

            ALL      OVER    THE             P L A C E        ......................................................

Unwelcome Messages

                                  Scrubbing bird 'messages' off the deck of the Deborah D!

A RED and GREEN Day

Cross-stitched  gingham tablecloth from the Salvo Op shop......window and wall on the way to the Salvo Op  shop.

Correa alba growing next to the Salvo Drop off bin.......awning and verenda post next door to the Salvo Op shop.

Back

Back from the Flinders Ranges and a visit to the special place Aroona where Sir Hans Heysen painted his well known series of works in pencil and watercolour titled the Three Sisters Aroona. A special time painting with the ghost of the man himself....all around me were the colours and rugged landscape described by him in the book by Colin Theile

Easter Monday bike riding around Queenscliff

Another bit of sillyness.........Easter chicks enjoying the sea air and sunshine.................................

My sort of Anzac Day football match

Easter Sunday Lunch Frivolities