Beautiful Blogs

I've read some great blogs this week that I'd like to share with you....

Brandy had a baby....welcome Brooklyn Corey.

Lori's friend Kate needs help to adopt another baby....how cute is Mia???

Donna's video link to Derek Siver's Obvious to you. Amazing to others.

Check this out....Leanne's beautiful collage she made for her art exhibition.

Captivated and in awe of Flora Bowley....

Design Seeds great colour blog....Puppy Tones

I found this blog through Pinterest and just loved all the different colour inspiration and ideas.

And then there's this controversial blogpost on How do you earn the title of "artist"?

I found some great quotes this week too....

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

- Marcus Aurelius quotes (Roman emperor, best known for his Meditations on Stoic philosophy, AD 121-180)
"Dance like the photo's not being tagged, Love like you've never been unfriended, Tweet like nobody's following."
A tweet I found on Twitter....

I'm off to walk the dog, photograph my paintings, paint and iron whilst the paint dries.

I'm also looking forward to Tinniegirl's Blogtoberfest. which starts next Saturday, 1st October.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Wet Wednesday

I just opened my kitchen back door to take a photo of my view for you...can you see the rain drops????

Here's my view in good weather....

This blue fairy wren tried to visit me yesterday - this photo was taken through the window...

I tried to get more canvases from the art store but they still don't have any in my size/price but they are at the docks waiting to be unloaded....check on Saturday......though I did get one canvas and an entry form into another art awards show.  :D

Still waiting on some sunny weather and some time to take some photos of my paintings and take them to the printer to see whether they can be turned into prints...will ask about business cards/cards etc too...

Looking forward to the weekend and doing some painting.....





{Shell's Sunday Snippets}

Kangaroo Paws

Geraldton Wax

Wisteria

Grevillea

Wattle

Part of my painting for the Darlington Arts Festival...

Spring has sprung though it's more like winter for the past 24 hours, very windy and heavy rain which finally cleared enough for me to take some photos.  Went to a wedding yesterday and all I took were the backs of people's heads and blurry shots.  The native flowers are blooming - kangaroo paws, geraldton wax, grevillea, wattle, several unknown plants and a 25 year old wisteria plant which is just gorgeous.

Hope your weekend went well - if you took some pics then post your own {sunday snippets} and leave me a link so I can take a sticky beak. Here's a link to Cathy/tinniegirls {sunday snippets}.

Hope everyone has a great week.


Sox

Time and Unforeseen Occurrence

Life, hope, dreams.

Faith, fear, determination.

Anger, tears, frustration.

Sacrifice, heartache, rejection.

Survivors, past, present, future.

Paintings into prints.

Scanners, photos, photoshop.

Ups and downs, ins and outs, it's early days yet.

Knowing it can be done and yet being told it can't be done.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Butterfly Girl - work in progress - inspired by the Kelly Rae Robert's Taking Flight course that I've been taking.

I've just started my painting to enter into the Darlington's Art Festival today and will give you a sneak peek of a portion of it next week sometime.

Dear Universe

I wish I had known this a month ago.

"In Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott writes about a Buddhist belief - the idea that when several things start going wrong all at once it is to protect something bigger and greater that is trying to get itself born - and that whatever it is that is trying to come into our world needs for us to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible."  Thanks Kelly Rae Roberts.



Yesterday I had a lightbulb moment whilst reading this quote. I have photographed all my paintings using my small Sony camera all in low resolution 72dpi. If I had sold all my paintings that weekend I would not have the opportunity now to re-photograph them with our Nikon SLR in high resolution 300dpi - suitable for printing and magazines/publishing.

Here are my 3 top tips for today that I want you to take away with you...

1.  Photograph your finished artwork/creation in low resolution for the internet - blogs/sites etc and then re-photograph in high resolution for publishing/printing.  (Your computer program may be able to do this from high to low resolution).

2. Tag your final photograph so it's easy to find such as 72art2011 and 300art2011.

3.  Bad things happen but then better things can happen - all part of a bigger picture which we do not know all the details of.

Another beautiful day in my part of the world....wish you were here....

Big love and bear hugs,

Shells.
On the last weekend in July I had 11 paintings for sale at an art show/sale. 20,000 people were meant to come to a food festival in our community and then hopefully come to the art show and buy some art. The weather was rainy and stormy and very few people turned up and no-one bought anything. I was very disappointed.

www and MMAG

I'm really proud to announce that my website is now online - so go take a look at it and if you have any feedback then let me know.  I honestly can't believe that little ol' me has a  website with my art on it - woowhoo!!! 

http://www.shellsinthebush.com/

Yesterday was also my Monday Morning Art Group and here is the painting I've been working on...

My butterfly girl has a face and background though there is still plenty of work to be done...

Hope your day is going well and that you have a great week.