Murmuration #2 is (almost) done.
Needs some glazing and the background needs another layer but I can’t do that til it is dry.
This was such a fun and difficult piece, i really feel as if painting is a kind of translation. All these birds are common in Lutruwita/Tasmania, they are ones I enjoy spending time with, as lovely as spotting the rarer species can be, and as much as they need protecting, common native species are owed the same.
We have a tern, a cormorant, some gulls, a masked lapwing (plover), silvereye, white faced heron, scarlet robin, fairywrens, black swan, pied oystercatcher, new holland honey eater, and a pair of currawongs.
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finding it difficult to even begin to express how disturbed and overwhelmed i am by the state of australian and global politics, but i think this painting does the job.
i truly believe that curiosity is the antidote to fear and ignorance. i have nothing insightful to say really.
this painting doesn’t have a name yet. the shells and skate egg are all from beach-combing done on lutruwita’s coastline. and the mountain skink is one i photographed. stay interested in your surroundings and the people in your life
been obsessed with andrew wyeth lately, so annoyed i cannot paint like he does. been cooking and snark hunting and drinking beers, painting again and trying to enjoy the sunshine even when it is too hot because i know soon it will be raining again. (0 out of 5 of us won keno :( )
and how cool is the coat rack zoë built me for chrissy?? Huon pine from our mate Ian, and repurposed timber. It has a shoebox too. My coats are very happy with their new place to live and smell like pine trees now too!
