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Mondoodle 19-07-2010

elise — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:27:35 +0000

This is a character I’ve been playing with a little. I’m calling her the bumblebee girl.

I know what happens next! She’s a good explorer but those are slippery poles and there are so many strange things beneath the waves.

Drawn in the lounge on the comfy blue couch at 9pm, Monday 19th July, 2010. With vampires running around in the background. Hilarious!

Mondoodle 28-06-2010

elise — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:38:39 +0000

Yes, you are caught in a time loop. You thought it was Tuesday but it’s Monday again, and again. Which is good because it means it’s drawing day and I’m not late! If I was (and I’m still liking the time loop story) it was because I had an evil migraine on Sunday night which stuffed up my eyesight all Monday. Ergh. No fun at all and certainly not a productive day!

So here we are.

And here is a picture cos I love you guys.

Why have a parrot on your shoulder when you can have a terrapin?

I’m looking forward to seeing what happens around her as I finish it!

Mondoodle 14-06-2010

elise — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:27:34 +0000

I was writing today in a cafe and (everyone who has ever workshopped with me can laugh now) I did a new beginning to my novel. This is something I do (shuffles awkwardly) well, quite often. In fact I am known for multiple first chapters. It’s a talent. Someone’s got to have it. One day I will write a final chapter. Now that will be an exciting day! Anyway, I was writing a dream sequence. Yes, I know. Don’t worry, it won’t get into the novel, I was really just trying something out. But I liked the imagery. The character was walking on the ocean, blind fish beneath his feet and a huge moon hanging impossibly low overhead. It was day, but night as well.

And then I drew this. It happens a lot – I have a theme or an idea and it keeps coming out in different things until I am done with exploring it.

Drawn in my fifth moleskine, on the afternoon and evening of Monday 14 June, 2010. This was not a quick one – but as it was my last present-to-myself day off after the exhibition, I thought I’d just keep going.

Mondoodle 07-06-2010

elise — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:37:03 +0000

A quick inexcusably late one… but done with the aid of new technology. I would have posted one done in Adobe Ideas from my ipad only it glitched and didn’t save it. Grrr. So this is done with Sketchbook Pro. And my finger.

Sketched on the iPad on Tuesday 8th June, 2010. I need a stylus!

Mondoodle 24-05-2010

elise — Mon, 24 May 2010 10:46:10 +0000

A guy that’s been lurking in my notebook. An aviator or perhaps skiing bear. All that really matters is the scarf, the goggles and those gloves.

Not sure when I drew him. Some images are best lost and found. I like him being on a journal page too – as if I discovered him when looking out of a bus window and sketched him quickly.

Mondoodle posted Monday May 24, 2010.

INVITATION

elise — Sat, 08 May 2010 03:04:45 +0000

I have the utmost pleasure of inviting you to my exhibition, and most particularly to the two events – the sophisticated grandeur of Opening Night and to the friendly festivities of Family Day.

OPENING NIGHT

6 – 9 pm on Thursday, 20 May 2010.

at No Vacancy Gallery

Located on level 3, QV

(Enter via Russell St. near the corner of Little Lonsdale.)

The Opening night is sponsored by the Crittenden Estate Winery and supported by Koko Black.

Weekend Family Event

11 – 3 pm on Saturday, 22 May

You’ve watched the paintings as they came to life at the markets, now come and see how they turned out! Practise your drawing skills, see me at work, explore the paintings and maybe win some prizes. There will also be prints, books and cards available.

For both of these events RSVPs would be greatly appreciated.

Can’t make it or you’d like to come another time?

The exhibition runs from 20 May to 5 June, 2010.

Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday 11am – 6 pm,

Saturday 11 am – 5 pm, Sunday noon – 5 pm

(Open Thursday & Friday after hours by appointment)

Don’t forget, I’ll be there painting for the whole exhibition.

Oh dear – Mondoodle 03-05-2010

elise — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:02:15 +0000

I am so sorry! I’m working so hard I barely knew what day it was. Yesterday I wrote a chapter of my novel to workshop in a night class, did a lot of painting and sent out press releases late at night about the exhibition. It was a busy one!

The paintings are going well. Apparently a whole bunch of them are framed and ready to come home. I’ve almost finished the flying elephants oil and the steampunk beagle painting. And hypno-cat is getting very close. Tomorrow I hope to put the finishing touches on all three.

Here’s what I’m working on tonight.

That’s not very clear I’m sorry! But metal plates reflect like crazy… the lightest bits are what have been scratched into the copper plate (dry-point, no acid required). The darker lines are chinagraph pencil marks to orientate me on the plate… rather like sketching in pencil first.

Etched on copper in the lounge, 9.15 to midnight on Tuesday (sorry!) 4th May, 2010… masquerading as a Mondoodle.

I’ll be on top of things next week for sure!

New Prints!

elise — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:37:43 +0000

We have two markets this weekend and we have a debut…

Introducing TWO NEW PRINTS coming out ino the big wide world for the first time this weekend at the Sister’s Market in Brunswick and the Maker’s Market at the Abbotsford Convent. It looks like a stunning weekend (if it’s anything like today) so come and say hello to my new adventuring girls.

Mondoodle 05-04-2010

elise — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:07:51 +0000

I trust you’ve been having a restful long weekend – if you are somewhere where they give you one… I’ve been a-marketing, painting, drawing and enjoying the presence of the unseasonably warm sun. Very nice!

You may recognise part of this from an earlier post. Well now I think I’ve finished it and I thought you’d like to see how it turned out.

Drawn in the lounge on a rather balmy autumn evening on Monday April 5 2010, from 10 to 11pm.

Because I have seen the future. And there will be cats flying zepplins…

But of course you knew that.

Mondoodle 29-03-2010

elise — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:15:50 +0000

I had a hankering for some watercolour tonight.

Drawn in the studio at 10.30pm on Monday March 29, 2010.

He has a lean and hungry look. I feel that I should draw what he’s so focused upon… only I don’t know what it should be. We’ve had lots of grasshoppers around lately… maybe one of those could sneak in.

It’s odd I know! I think they may have been driven toward the city by the smoke of the fires lately. I can just imagine them, a whirring cloud slipping and billowing on the wind, confused as they come to rest finally on hot suburban roads.

The birds must have had a merry and unexpected feast! And perhaps… some foxes did too?