Almost

This painting has been many years in making and is close to being finished. I worked on it yesterday and was going to get more done on it today but early in the morning my email pinged to tell me we are now officially divorced and that’s knocked me a bit. Which is strange because it seemed like the least Biggest Deal out of everything he and I have been through together – but you never know how you’re going to feel until it happens.

We have our beautiful daughter and we have our friendship.

So this painting has formed and developed alongside of all of the things that have happened over the past few years. I don’t really have any more words for today and I suspect I won’t be getting much drawing done either, but it’s good to just give it a go!

Everything else can wait for another day.

 

draw what you can see

I only had an hour in my studio this week but it was good to work four days – get the experience, save the money and go to Melbourne to see Evelyn Ida Morris and Sarah Blasko perform. Which was AMAZING.

I sold a drawing on the weekend – a large one, which is an incredible feeling as since the first lockdown all of that has slowed right down. So thank you buyer in Hong Kong!  Uni starts back very soon, I am really looking forward to it as I go on placement within the first week for a month at a hospital. I really enjoy working at hospitals.

Ok, I’m going to go draw now.

 

thirty nine

Hello, it is Sunday evening and I am very tired and should be in bed but I have made a promise to myself to write here more –

I turned thirty nine this weekend – the last year of my thirties. I started the day with an unexpected delivery of breakfast on a silver tray with a beautiful smelling tea rose, and later I got to have a beautiful dinner ( thank you 🙂 ). On Sunday I got to have high tea with my daughter.

I am super lucky, each day is a gift.

This week is a wild one but tell me which week isn’t 😉

 

 

Covid-19 times sketching

Hello

I am making myself scan in drawings from the sketchbooks to share here, I have been drawing like a proper drawing person at the moment – as in all the time. It’s so so good. Things have recently shifted and changed in my life and I have my art and it’s wonderful.

Part of the change is that I got a new job! It was a Friday afternoon send in my application by Monday morning I am scheduled for induction affair. Made all the more easy because I am qualified and have alllllll the paperwork at the ready. I aim to do a good job and learn lots of new skills. Uni still doesn’t go back for a little while so I best keep myself busy.

Rapid Antigen Test – RATs. The new gold.

 

Buffer for RATs. Also gold.

 

Vials for gold buffer to be place onto GOLD RATs. Gold facilitators.

 

Saliva test – less common gold.

 

Blurry – I accidently spilt my international roast coffee on this sketch.

 

It’s not a proper blog post without a sketch of hand sanitizer, so here’s the Angel. So antimicrobial.

Waiting area sketch after I got my booster. Passed the time quick.

 

The nurses here were INCREDIBLE.

 

Routine.

 

I have more but I’m trying to group posts into relevant themes for your enjoyment.

Happy Saturday!

watercolour all day long

And all night, I am very tired. I have most of a weekend to myself to paint and work. I’m none too impressed with results so far but holy moly having a good time.

oh there’s some drawing too, of course.

latex

 

Mistress – boots

 

red

 

after

 

nearly

 

how good are hands

red latex

 

Thank you to all the awesome, awesome humans who take the time to model for me.

Bruise is my own.

 

More to come but thought I’d try and pace the posts to not overwhelm. Art is exploding out of me.

KA-POW!

 

 

Luna

This ia a little drawing I did on the day Luna came to live with me. She was small and skinny and had a little sore on the end of her nose. I have a large desk for my study (also drawing) and she sitting in a certain spot by one of the windows so I put a little blanket there for her. This is where she looks out at the olive tree, bathing in the morning sun and curls up to sleep at bed time.

It’s nice to have a little meow friend .

Lockdown drawings –

Though my art practice has been stifled over the last couple of years I have kept up sketching while at work (in healthcare) and for study.

I have done a drawing of a tympanic thermometer but I cannot find it anywhere! Which is deeply frustrating, I lovingly rendered the shit out of that drawing – I have hope that I’ll find it.. one day.

Still life – hand sanni atop disinfectant wipes.

Fake flowers in the visiting room.

 

Very runny baxter hand sanni

 

Social distancing chairs – doc office.

 

There has been a lot of upheaval in my life over the last two years and somethings have been very heavy. Somedays I am not sure I can make it – life just seems too hard and then other days it sort of makes sense and I just keep going. I am lucky I have sketching and I am lucky I have so many good books to read. I am also very lucky to be a second year nursing student this year. I am lucky to have friends and I am lucky to have my mum and very blessed to have an amazing daughter.

I am hoping to post more here as I have more time for sketching and writing – I resigned from my job very late last year to focus on my studies so yay! More time.

 

Sketchy sketch 🙂