My creative challenge for 2018 is Taking Shape: Cues from Nature where I make a 50x50cm abstract textile painting with a focus on shape. This month I went looking for inspiration in the rockpools at the northern end of the beach at Copacabana. First I saw the birds, a heron and a cormorant. Then […]
Taking Shape
Taking Shape: Monthly Art Project: September 2018
It’s September and month eight of my creative challenge for 2018 Taking Shape: Cues from Nature. This time I am revisiting the crest of cockatoos. For Week 35 of my Weekly Art Project, I copied the yellow sulphur colour pretty faithfully: It was fun to reimagine this design on a larger scale in turquoise […]
Taking Shape: Monthly Art Project: August 2018
It’s August and I am seven months into my creative challenge for 2018 Taking Shape: Cues from Nature. This time my inspiration is the ornamental blooms of the lantana thickets that are invasive weeds in this part of the world: While lantana flowers are not technically hexagon-shaped, a variation of the traditional grandmother’s garden layout […]
Taking Shape: Monthly Art Project: July 2018
I am six months into my creative challenge for 2018 Taking Shape: Cues from Nature – a monthly art project. I am planning to do a cycle of 12 months so this is hump month! It seems only fitting that my artwork depict a humpback whale. It’s winter here in Copacabana and I vary the […]
Taking Shape: Monthly Art Project: June 2018
This is the 5th month of my creative challenge for 2018 Taking Shape: Cues from Nature – a monthly art project. I am returning to a familiar subject – banksia flowers. I admire the fortitude and stoicism of the banksias on the coastal heathland that flourish despite being buffeted by salt-heavy winds. In this work, […]
Taking Shape: Monthly Art Project: May 2018
This is month four of my creative challenge for 2018 is Taking Shape: Cues from Nature – a monthly art project. I have been busy on other assignments but have an inspiration bank of images from my daily walks. At present, there are many bird of paradise plants in bloom in my neighbourhood: I took the […]