May02
Happiness is….....
2012Article posted by Gilly
.....a painting that paints itself! That’s what has happened to me since I last wrote, and the finished result is, I think, one of the best paintings that I have yet produced.
Mar04
Love the Net! (Mary Herbert)
2012Article posted by Gilly
I know that February was a short month but, heavens, where did it go!? We even had an extra day and I still wasn’t able to catch up with this ‘blog’ (and I still think that is the ugliest of words!)
Jan30
Such a Relief!
2012Article posted by Gilly
The summer break has been wonderful with a great family Xmas, a quiet start to the New Year and enjoying the Australia Day Skyshow from the balcony of my parents’ apartment in the City - although Nature’s skyshow at the same time was almost more spectacular! But it wasn’t all rest and relaxation, although I did do a lot of that, particularly this last couple of weeks with the temperature soaring into those 40 degrees centigrade days. However, it was good to finish the final two commissions out of the eleven I started at the beginning of 2011.
Dec22
You Have to Laugh!
2011Article posted by Gilly
This entry is really just an excuse to wish all my loyal ‘readers’ a Very Merry Xmas and wonderful New Year. Lots of painting, lots of creative thoughts, and lots of joy from the amazing art that we all produce be we beginners or seasoned artists. We all have so much to offer the world of art of which we are all members. But, now for the laugh….....
Nov26
Lost Mojo
2011Article posted by Gilly
Around the beginning of this month my mojo went walkabout! Not lack of inspiration, I still have plenty of that. A head full of ideas and hundreds of reference photos to draw from that’s going to keep me going well into my dotage. But the motivation to get out into the Studio and actually do something, that just disappeared. I felt completely stale, art-wise, and I think it’s all the commissions suddenly getting on top of me. My art went from being a fun and creative thing that I loved to do, to being a job! I don’t need a job. I paint because of a deep down compulsion to create the beautiful things that I see into, hopefully, beautiful paintings; to continually strive to be better; to make each artwork that I produce more skilful and more realistic than the previous one.
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- Happiness is….....
2 May 2012 - Love the Net! (Mary Herbert)
4 March 2012 - Such a Relief!
30 January 2012 - You Have to Laugh!
22 December 2011 - Lost Mojo
26 November 2011
I was very small when I began to draw so I can’t remember when it all started. I do remember that as a little girl my bedroom walls were covered in my drawings of horses and animals and that I wrote my own stories and illustrated them - I still have some of them today. 