Malanda Dairy Centre, Wordless Wednesday. 07/07/2010
         1 Comment  I tried a total routine change beginning 2 weeks ago, it has petered out, did not make the 21 days to form a new habit, is not working right for Reg or me. I've had a couple of frustrated that I'm not getting what I want to get done days, and I have two new ideas came to me tonight, one concerns finding time to paint on location and the other concerns the novel I plan to write. I begin a totally more radical routine change tomorrow morning at 6.30 am . No I am not getting up at that hour to exercise, I am going out to paint a sunrise. I have been going to Gym around 10.30 am each morning, I am doing Body Pump class three times a week, striving to build some healthy strong muscle, kick my metabolism up a bit, though it does require some effort. I am enjoying it. Having a bit more muscle, is going to help me too when I need to carry my French Easel any distance for an outdoor paint out. The Art Journal Workshop: Break Through, Explore, and Make it Your Own  Another Glass Ceiling Fractured. 06/24/2010
 Julia Gillard wins leadership challenge and will become Australia's first female Prime Minister. Today Australia gained its first woman Prime Minister in Ms Julia Gillard and I had fun enjoying one of the passions that 50 years ago, I was denied the opportunity to study, because I was a female but have since overcome the male profession stereotype and mastered. I am referring to my love of another art form, that of landscape gardening. After the announcement of Ms Gillard's appointment, I went to review the Flying Fish Point Beachfront B & B and being a nature lover, I was most impressed with the beautiful landscaping of the garden and the clever use of space. I saw some great ideas that would be easy to duplicate using above ground pools. Amazing how lovely this small pool looks with a deck around it set amongst palm trees in front of a view.   There was a long narrow pond in the garden and stepping stones down the center of it, a lovely outdoor pavilion. I will always adore beautiful garden design. I felt good today that it makes no difference what sex you are, in regards to being our Prime Minister, or who landscapes a garden.     Bush Campfires, I Love them. 06/18/2010
 Oil Painting of a camp fire beside the Robe River, WA. One of the things I love about bush camping is the outdoor fireplaces we sit around and often cook our dinner on. After dinner we enjoy the atmosphere, surrounding the fire, to talk and sit gazing at the stars, especially enjoying the first hour or so of darkness when the flying objects , in the sky, the satellites and if we are lucky the shooting stars, are most visible. A fire, in a painting of dusk, adds a special effect and many times I have worked for an hour every evening for up to a couple of weeks, capturing this special effect of fire in an art work. Often I have sat gazing into the fire, trying to capture, the image of those dancing flames, the light and the colour, in my brain, trying to work out how to paint, a near impossible, to paint moving subject.  Dinner in front of the camp fire that is burning in an old washing machine, inner tub. Lifelike Drawing in Colored Pencil with Lee Hammond A Landscape Crying Out to be Painted. 06/09/2010
 I went into the mountains to the west of Port Douglas on Sunday, it is an artist’s paradise of mountain backdrops, tropical foliage eucalyptus trees and interesting cottages, I loved it there and could visualise living there, self-sustained, happily spending my days painting, planting and harvesting, tending free-range chooks like my friend Gem, does. J. A lifestyle I love. My realist husband has always seen the work before the romance of it and realistically talked me out of a life as a small farm owner operator. lol, he is so right, I would be so busy tending the plants and the chooks I would not get the paintings done. Well I can dream and admire the lifestyle so close to nature, can't I?    Truckie, Artist, Writer. 05/15/2010
 Me in the truckies, lounge in Townsville, catching up with my blogging before our run up to Flying Fish Resort, tomorrow where I am eager to break out the art supplies, begin painting and posting more art lessons. Grafitti Artist. 05/14/2010
 Here I am being a graffiti artist, at the Marlborough Hotel tonight, adding my name to the internal walls of this country pub which has become my office for the evening for a cost of $5. a person to park our caravan and $2. for the power. The internet connection is going in and out, this is country Australia and that's what we get outside of the cities. I hope it will stay on line so i can have a chat about our great day. We had a dream drive from Hervey Bat to Marlborough, Queensland today. There were some funny moments. it was the first time I had used the new TomTom GPS to help give me the driver travel directions and there were situations where I would say to Reg, ‘what did she say’, and he would answer, ‘I don’t know’. The GPS gave clearer directions than Reg does and always said turn left when I was to turn left instead of saying turn right when she mean t left. My back seat driver was more relaxed today. lol J I am sure the car insurance companies must love these GPS units other than when they tell you to ‘take the next turn left’ and lol J, I promptly turned left into a Bunnings, store drive. Overall, it was a very successful decision to buy this GPS unit and Reg was very impressed with how it got us out of Hervey Bay without taking us through the heavily congested built up area we drove through to get to Torquay Beach.    Old Farm Buildings, Kenilworth, Queensland. 05/13/2010
  I saw these fantastic old farm buildings at Kenilworth in the Hinterland of Queensland’s Gold Coast and thought they would be fantastic for an on location paining. There were some beautiful on location painting spots in this area, beside the Mary River with mountain backdrops and the autumn toning in the deciduous trees contrasting to beautiful stringy bark gum trees. Accommodation, in the area is very affordable if your camping or traveling in your own caravan you can stay at the showgrounds.  There is a beautiful art gallery in the town well worth viewing. When I travel through such beautiful areas as this I rarely have the radio or CD on, I just enjoy the view as I drive. When the scenery becomes repetitious, although I still enjoy it, I like to listen to audio books which these days can be listened to in your car CD or MP3 players and it is about the only way I find time to enjoy a novel, is to hear it read to me while I drive.    It is high time I got myself some new images of me painting. The above picture was taken back in 2006 when I was a size 22 going on 24 and i am now size 14 going on 12. Problem is I plan to paint at night while Reg my photographer is asleep. Never mind, I will paint by grabbing these private moments when he sleeps, like tonight. lol, talk about being eager for a bad night on TV so he will retire early. I am feeling too tired after the long drive to intelligently blog, (what I usually do while he watches TV), while at the same time I am inspired by the beautiful scenery I saw today and this makes me want to paint more than ever. The tiredness will pass once I pick up the brush. People who are not artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired. (John Cage) A Satisfyingly Creative Week. 05/03/2010
         What a fantastic holiday, we have had here at Ballina Beach Tourist Park, with great meals and performance art by, Byron Circus Arts giving lessons on the Flying Trapeze and the great entertainment of live music and stunning fire dance performed by Utopianfire. I am working on the painting of the Warby Hut J. I have done an ink block in plan of the subject on to 300-gram 100% rag content watercolour paper. Other creative activities I have been up to, have involved quite a large amount of creative writing and web design work Oh and lol, does clipping the poodle, count as creative art? If so that is one more art experience I got my hands into this week and I was the receiver of a great style cut and foils, myself. This has been one of my most satisfying creative weeks for this tour. I have enjoyed a very creative week, here at Ballina Beach Holiday ParkJ. Tomorrow we head towards Maleny and the beautiful Glass House Mountains of QLD.  The Warby Hut. Photo subject for my current painting. | Follow me on Facebook at @ Kathy Shell
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