Charcoal Chick

Charcoal pencil on paper

This here is a long ago sketch I did based on some beautiful images of dancers. Sadly, using charcoal really sets my teeth on edge – it’s like fingernails down a chalkboard to me – so I hardly ever get it out. Even in pencil form the sound and feeling of it scraping across paper just gives me the willies. Anyway, I managed to survive the horror of it for this pic.

Exhibitionist

photo courtesy Audrey Jacometti

Whooo!!!! -here are a couple of great pics from the graduate group show I was part of at Melbourne gallery 45 Downstairs. I’ve been oil painting this year at the CAE and absolutely LOVED it! I’ll post some individual shots next week.

photo courtesy Audrey Jacometti

Hair Mail

digital photo

 

Nothing thrills me more than a bit o’ disembodied hair, and here is a very good example. This is a finely knotted, real hair, hairnet. I have a modest collection of these hairnets and often get them out for a bit of a quiet marvel. It boggles me noggin to consider that they are handmade. I also love the beautiful packaging with pictures of lovely ladies and their glam coiffures.

 

Digital photo

Digital photo

Post haste

pencil on paper

Gracious, can’t believe it’s been over a week since my last post-icle! This girl intimidated me into putting her up today. She’s a real tough nut – definitely the Pony Club president and the type to hit you in the shins with a hockey stick when the ref isn’t looking.

My fave part of drawing this was making that leather shine and wrinkle -a bit like my own face come to think of it…..

Feeling pensive

pencil on paper

This is a sketch from an old visual diary. I found her yesterday and couldn’t help feeling a little sorry for her – she looks pretty worried. Maybe she’s just cold?

Anyway, my friend and illustrator Erin Hunting   – http://erinhuntingart.blogspot.com – reminded me Curvy are looking for submissions for their annual illustration journal. Check out http://www.curvy-world.com

House on a hill

oil on canvas covered board 2008

This is a work from last year that I really enjoyed painting. It’s a real broody-Judy of a painting; gathering clouds; dusk creeping quietly in; drawn curtains etc etc! Nothing tickles me more than mystery and some long shadows…..

Skylight

This pretty pic was taken when The Melbourne International Arts Festival blew through town recently. I thought this old lace shade looked so fabulous with the sun shining through and the sky almost the exact same colour. It kind of reminds me of a jellyfish floating along…..

Delicate delicates

This is a white pencil on black paper sketch done a little while ago now. It’s of a beautiful 50’s origonal petticoat. The fabric itself was something I haven’t ever seen before – crunchy to the touch and springy – almost alive! I really liked how papery and dented the fabric looked and wanted to draw it as soon as a I saw it.

Tough girl

Don’t let her scare you! Loved drawing this fashionista – I used masking tape as a texture under the pencil and really like the result

masking tape and pencil on paper

Neon dreaming

paper collage and pencil on paper

paper collage and pencil on paper