A tangled holiday

Returned safely from Western Australia but not without incident. Our flight due for 1.20pm, we set off at 10am from Jurien  Bay. Also on board Chris's coaster bus were the eldest grandaughter Adrien, and a new doggie called Matilda. She is a 3 month old Rottweiller and gorgeous.She has been on these long distance runs before without a problem. Normally its a 2 1/2 hour trip to the airport.

After about an hour a really bad smell arrived in the van. "Who did that?" asks Chris. We look innocent and then I see a brown bundle on the floor. OOps! Doggie-doo. As we could not stand the smell, it had to be cleaned up thoroughly.  Fifteen minutes later another bundle appears. Oops, she's been sick! So we lose more time.



It wasn't me



We ring the airport to find time of next flight. Some good news, our flight has been delayed 40 minutes. Breathe sigh of relief. As time was now on our side, Chris made two quick business calls en route. BUT drawing closer to the city, the traffic turned into a snails pace. We should be ok with 35 mins before take off ..another BUT...Sorry, the plane is leaving in 10 minutes. The 40 minute delay had turned into a 20 minute one. Duh. Missed flight. Next one??? FIVE hours to wait.



A canvas tangle for Adrien

 Filled in time with coffee, lunch  and stroll around airport shops. By chance( or not) I noticed a book "How to Retire in 12 months" by Serena Star-Leonard. An Australian . As I am actually retiring in 8 months, and I still want to create an income, I purchased it. It has been an absolute delight. "This is just what I need" . So maybe we were meant to miss that plane??

Jurien Bay is great for fishing and has a massive marine park which includes sea lions and whales. The sand is almost white and very fine, the sea a tempting turquoise. It has a new pier which is semi circular!(nearly)

Next eldest girl Faith had her eighth birthday while we were there. Balloons and streamers. Great fun BUT when it was all over, where do we put the balloons? Idea. In the bath! So, when two stayed over in our caravan, they had a balloon bath!

After the bath, they kindly accomodated me by bursting all the balloons. I couldnt do it! Next thing was to remove the streamers....They made a nice hat!

Its always nice to go away, but still good to come home. Now my goal is do some more canvas tangles for the Art Teachers Art exhibition next month. Keep me busy while on school holidays. AND I will soon have the new set of Zendalas to explore!

tangled painting and zia

I'm all packed to go but have some time to post a recent zia I completed at the Tuesday art group, and a painting I have begun to tangle . Did this one at the "class" i have at home each fortnight. I have been itching to tangle a painting, and this was one I did with my students last week. They had to copy one of  Picasso's painted ladies faces. I also have a completed small canvas done by one of my "at home " students.
The zia below "Moonflower" was completed on two panels.

Not finished yet but I am having fun!

spiral fun #62

Wow! I have just checked through my "reading list" and some awesome spirals are happening! Diva's challenge 62  (to use a spiral and paradox together), has been met head on with some amazingly creative work. Always inspirational. I decided to do mine on my calendar page and get ahead with it a bit as I go away next week for 10 days to see family and grandies. In WA it is HOT, so I dont anticipate doing a lot of fine work, plus I will be painting and playing with my little sunshines of course. (You can tell I work at night cos I used a blue pen instead of black in some places!!)

calendar 7-9 march

Little bit different this time. I felt like doing some letters, so used the letters of the days. Think Im hooked on the black and red colour scheme!

Canvas tangles

At last I've put photos of my canvas tangles on the computer.What do you think?

 They are 2'x 2''

This is just a fun one. I had to work hard to NOT colour it!!Hope to sell these at the Art Teachers exhibition soon.

Challenge #61, calendar.

Still no laptop, it actually needs a new hard drive, how bout that! Anyway, I'll have to look for my camera wires so I can put photos on of some recent tangles on canvas.
This weeks challenge is to use the tangle "Golven"by Mariet. its one I really like so I enjoyed this. I thought what can I do with it? Did some normal first, then a variation or two. Plus some colour for more effects.

I continue to thoroughly enjoy working on Caroles calendar. I was inspired by Margaret Bremner's work on stippling (sorry havent learnt links yet) so attempted a page of stippling. When I finished, I felt they would look better singly.The technique appealed to me though. I like the gentleness of it.

I recently completed another coloured pencil work, this time I added quite a few tangles to the design. Title "Imagine 2"



challenge #60 and calendar

I couldnt wait to get my laptop (still not even looked at yet) back after doing the challenge last night. I rummaged around and found the cd to load my printer onto hubs laptop so I could do some scanning. So hoorah some pickies! Challenge was a duo tangle of Cirquital and Munchin.