Visual Arts Class

As I shared with you all earlier in the week, my son and mum are in Japan (In Tokyo yesterday) at the moment. The earthquake has been a very scary experience, had me freaking out there for a while but I'm very happy to say that my son and mum are safe.


I wanted to share with you all what I've been doing in my Visual Arts Class. 

Yesterday in class we spent the day drawing and painting apples. Mind you I have only been using charcoal. I'm a very precise, neat, clean artist. So I find the messiness of charcoal hard to deal with mentally (even though I understand how to use it), it drives me crazy but I really want to be able to because I love the look of charcoal drawings. There are 9 of us in the class and it has been wonderful to watch everyone's process and results. I'm very slow, I like to take my time, part of the precise part of my nature I guess. Do a bit, step back and assess, do a bit more. Yesterday I got 3 of my 6 needed drawings done. Here is two of my favourites.

This was my second drawing today and I'm pretty happy with the result but there are some areas that I want to do a little bit more work on.

So after sitting there and munching down on one of my apples, this was my 3rd drawing. I really like the way this turned out. 

So this weekend and next week I will be working on the other pictures that I need to get done and then cropping out parts of my drawings that I like the composition. From these croppings I will be picking one to paint in the style of Matisse on a very large scale. Which more than just a little bit scary.

So stay tuned for some more pics.

Where is the World is My Son............

My Son is in JAPAN

Last Thursday my son and mum flew out of Brisbane to Cairns and then on to Tokyo on Friday. My 12 day break didn't start out that well for me, because I some how got food poisoning but I'm all better now and last night my mum transferred these pics to me. So I thought that I would share them with you all. 

Mum and Dion are skiing in Hakuba and then to Tokyo for shopping etc.

Don't forget to enter my current competition 

Off to see Mum - Blogtoberfest Day 7

Today I got up very early and made the trip down to Byron Bay to see my Mumma. 

This is me and Mum way back when.

We had brunch, had a look around the shops, OK so it was a little more than a looking but I will share with you all what I bought tomorrow. It was great to hang out, catch up and spend some time together.

This was the view from Byron Beach Cafe where we had Brunch.

It's been a long but great day.

Fun Friday Nights

Its been a long absence but I am back to my blog and I thought that I would share with you all what we will be doing tonight.

We love playing cards. I think it all started with me playing rummy with my Gran growing up.

We have heaps of decks of cards but here are our favourites. Jumbo cards, Normal size with our faces on them and Mini cards (they are always great when we are traveling).

The older my son gets the different games that we play have grown.

We now also play Phase 10, Uno and Skip Bo.

The older that my son has got the better he has got at all card games which is great because now it is a real challenge for me to win.

When we play cards we normally watch a movie and have a bowl of wrapped lollies.

Wrapped lollies are the best because they take longer to eat and time to unwrap so you dont end up eating too many.

So the last thing that make up our Friday nights is my iPhone and my sons iPod touch.

So to add to our old school games we also like play games on our iPhone and iPod. Most Fridays we pick our a new game from the app store and both have go to see how well we can go.

I think that they had it right back in the day with puzzles, card and board games. These days there are a lot of kids that spend a lot of time holed up in their rooms by themselves. Not wanting to end up this way with my son I introduced him to the love of these things early and now it has been a big part of having fun for my son and I.

So this Friday night I hope that you and your family spend some time together.