My entry in the Waterhouse has been delivered to the museum and now it's just a waiting game. The show opens to the public on August 2nd and goes through until September 7th. Eeeeeeeee the excitement!
Welcome to the bloggy bit :-)
Thanks for delving this far into Drawn Wild. This will be the section where I will post stuff and talk about things...the usual way a blog works I guess (having never done one, i'll work it out as I go along). I'll try not to make it too boring and hopefully will attempt to keep it somewhat up to date
At the moment I am busy working on a big pastel but in the meantime, I have done my first dog...a really cute Basset. 
I will be doing a lot more dogs, and cats, and....well....pets in general.
I am excited to announce my first solo exhibition "Drawn Wild"! It is to be held at the old Adelaide Gaol as part of the SALA (South Australian Living Artist) Festival from August 7th to August 23rd 2009. If you are in Adelaide, please come along and visit!
I couldn't be more excited if I tried right now! I have made it through the juried selection into the finals of one of the biggest art competitions in South Australia, the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize which is held here in Adelaide at the South Australian Museum. I am so thrilled and honoured as it was my first attempt (and apparently it's not easy to get through. Only 102 pieces were chosen from almost 700 entries!)
My entry is "Happy Endings", a portrait of mother and child....from the rear! I am not expecting to win anything but just knowing that my work will be shown amongst some of the best national and international entries is mind blowing.
This is a picture I did as a commission in 2007. The cats (or rather 2 of them) were quite difficult to do.
The one on the left was white but had a grey face so it actually looks like the face has been darkened too much...it hasn't been. Oh and yes, it's crosseyed. That isn't an error.
The photo of the cat in the middle was taken with a flash so it had massive pupils, so I had to adjust it to match the other two. A tricky task but one that actually worked okay...they were thrilled with it!
So there it is....3 cats.
Pride and Joy was one of the entries in my first art competition. It was amongst more than 650 works of art on exhibition and not only did it sell, it also won the People's Choice Award!! I was thrilled to bits!
https://schema.org/BlogPosting">After looking at my brand new pastels in their brand new, shiny boxes for probably the 100th time, I figured it was time to give them a go. This was the result.
I just loved doing this little guy (fennec foxes are soooooooooo cute) and I realised that my trepidation at using pastels had been unwarranted.
I just loved doing this little guy (fennec foxes are soooooooooo cute) and I realised that my trepidation at using pastels had been unwarranted.
Well I finally finished the green tree frog. My second Pastel drawing. I love working with pastels although the mess takes a little getting used to (luckily I have wooden floors and I am not obsessive about them staying spotless), .......
This was difficult, it took me two attemts to get it right.
