What’s better than one #mooloolabasurfclub ? FOUR. The first was sketched on our first morning at the beach (fun), the second from a photo that night (a bit staid), the third on the beach (while my students may have been taking bets on how long it would take me...
Pretty much anyone who’s been to a Shiny Happy Paint Along knows I love my dragonflies. They add a little “somethin’ somethin'” to a flower painting and fill in simple backgrounds quite nicely. They add movement and detail and sometimes a bit...
In my other life I’m the marketing manager at a wonderful high school here in Toowoomba, Downlands College. A Missionaries of the Sacred Heart College, we are regularly offered retreat days, and just before Easter all staff (teachers, admin, cleaning, cooking,...
Downlands College sent me and my colleague, photographer Catherine Mims, out to Charleville, Quilpie, Cunnamulla and Wyandra in late March, to run a series of collaborative group paintings with each community. Every session started off in a similar way, but the...
A couple of weekends ago I got to paint a mural (at Kate’s Place childcare centre, Middle Ridge) and documented the process – after 10 hours of painting I swear these old bones were creaking, but oh, what a wonderful way to spend the...
