Megan Lane is a visual artist living in Mackay, Queensland:
These are two of my favourites of her paintings. I especially like the one on the right. I wonder who it is? I love her face.
Megan sells her art at the Sarina Markets, the Mackay City Markets, and the Airlie Beach Markets, in Queensland, Australia.
Read about Megan, and become a fan, here on Facebook.
Check out Queensland artist Katherine May's Australian themed Christmas cards!
Her Christmas 2009 range should be online soon.
Molas are the folk art of the Cunan Indian women, in South America. Vividly colored panels are used to adorn blouses and are made from pieces of multicoloured material, cut and sewn into narrative and fantasy scenes:
See here for a closer look.
Here's a great article about Molas, at Fashion-Incubator - which even shows a Mola bikini!
You can even buy a "Mola mug" here - & here - at cafepress - take a look!
Because I love Etsy (international handcrafted marketplace) here is what is offered on Etsy as molas.
There's a great article about the Kuna people of Panama, along with some very colourful Mola photos, here.
Yinka Shonibare MBE, contemporary artist, has transformed paintings (from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London) into (Dutch wax African print) fabrics. See more & learn more here.
Just for fun: here are my birthday nails:
These were hand painted, using a wooden toothpick with a blunted tip.
Take a look at this Nail Art Gallery. One of my favourite's is Keiko's 4th.
Here's a tutorial for some easy dotted nail art.
Lastly, another easy tutorial for flowers (the white flowers look the best, imo).
I love the effect of this layering technique from Gary Reef:
I notice though that he just knows which colours to choose to spray, & how & where, to achieve the desired effect.
I was surprised at a couple of the comments on this video: imo this layering technique improved the look of the painting.
I received an email tonight, from Tony Moffitt.
Tony teaches other artists how to create realistic paintings, how to sell their work, & how to get represented by galleries!
Click here to visit his informative blog!
Arts 'ignored' in national curriculum
"The Federal Government's new national curriculum for schools is focused on the basics of education: English, maths, science, history, geography and languages.
But a new lobby group says the visual arts, drama, dance and music should also be included."
Read more here. Some interesting comments follow this news story.
I like to put at least one painting in our local annual Brigalow Arts Festival each year. This year I procrastinated so much that I didn't have the painting started before entries closed, so it's "Untitled". Not only that, but I finished this painting Friday morning, before delivering it to the Biloela Civic Centre just a few hours later! Tsk tsk.
Yes, it's not like anything I've painted previously. This was an experiment.
What's life without "having a go"?
This is for my nephew's, Preston's, bedroom wall. He's the pirate in the middle, & those are his parents on either side! My sister likes it, so I'm happy enough, but it was darn hard to try to get a likeness in the faces at that size!
Yes, believe it or not, it's the obligatory vase of flowers!
In the past I've groaned about paintings of vases of flowers, but here you are now, my contribution to the vast hordes.
Amanda is an old school friend, who I have (temporarily I hope) lost contact with ie I don't have her latest email address.
The flowers are Plumeria Kona Hybrid (I'd call them Frangipanis), & the South African Crocosmia 'His Majesty'.
Somehow reading this post and its accompanying comments I feel inspired to keep an artist's journal! (not promising I actually will)
Well, I already keep a personal diary, with the occasional small important item glued into it, but it's not colourful, nor suitable for reading by all & sundry!
I think the ideal could be something like the old botany books we had as primary (elementary) school students - or just entirely blank pages, of 300gsm watercolour paper preferably, so there's less buckling caused by wet paint?
Thank-you Maria, for tagging me for this award.
These are some of the arty blogs which I love:
"A Fanciful Twist" by Vanessa Valencia, in Arizona, USA.
"Colouring Outside The Lines" by Andrea Pratt, in Vancouver, Canada.
DJ Pettitt, in Oregon, USA.
"Ma Petite Theiere" by Anne-Julie Aubry, in France.
"Misty Mawn" by Misty Mawn, in Virginia, USA.
"Painting My World" by Lindsay Brackeen, in Michigan, USA.
The participation rules are simple:
1. If you get tagged (and want to play along), write a post with links to blogs that you love,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme.
