Tip Jar Thursdays.

I'm famous.  Well not really.  Okay, maybe in my family only?

A little while back following one of my submissions to 'The Sketchbook Project' I was invited by the Art House Co-op to put together a tutorial on the method I used to transfer plant images on to fabric using heat transfer inks.  I felt honoured, overwhelmed, excited, humbled, incredulous and very nervous all at the same time!  To think that people all the way from the Brooklyn Art Library in New York thought my work was worthy of a tutorial.............really? ("Really" is not what I said at the time).

It was quite a challenge (major understatement) for me to get my brain around putting together both text and images in the format required, but I got there in the end!

The tutorial was due to be published on the Art House Co-op site the exact same morning that we were going away camping, (I couldn't believe it) and as  Brooklyn New York is about twelve hours behind Western Australia, we were long gone and I had to wait until we came back from our trip to see it.

It was a long few weeks wait but so exciting to see my work published!  (You can have a look at the whole tutorial on the Art House Co-op site here).

Just in case you missed it, I blogged about two of my Sketchbook Project submissions here and here and if you'd like to participate in one of the many different projects yourself, you can find out all about the Art House Co-op here.

First Day of May

It was the first day of May today and we had fog this morning.  Way to go Mother Nature.  

It's such a long time since I've seen fog that I raced outside in my nightie to take a photo from the end of our street. The sight of me in my nightie skipping about on the front lawn must have been mind boggling I'm sure.  It's a good thing that we have tolerant neighbours.  I didn't even manage to capture a decent shot of the fog after all that excitement and skipping anyway!

Colours of Ningaloo.

We have just returned from a few weeks camping up at Coral Bay on the Ningaloo Reef, hence the absence from my blog.  Coral Bay was just as beautiful, peaceful, restorative and fun as always, but even more so this year as we had lots of family join us as well.

We had so many kayaks and paddle boards down at the front beach, the tourists were trying to hire them!

Some journalling and 'me time'.  Take no notice of the bottle of scotch......it was obviously put there by an imposter.

We also managed a day trip to kayak Yardie Creek.  I put my feet in the shot just to prove I was there!

Fishing at dusk.  I caught five small fish but didn't keep any.
The more that I swim, kayak, snorkel and observe the fish and marine life, the less inclined I am to want to go fishing.  (Turning into a softie).     

The colours of the Ningaloo Reef just amaze me more every year.

I try to capture the colours with watercolour paints in my journal, but I never do.  It's impossible....well it is for me. Doesn't stop me trying though!

Yes he really was that gorgeous bright orange.

Clam slightly open.....amazing colours and patterns.  This shot was taken with my trusty underwater Olympus Tough.

Fish have no eyelids, that's why you have to cover their eyes when you take the hook out of their lip.  See I told you I was getting soft!  Why on earth would you want to eat one of these beautiful reef fish?

..............and so the sun sets once again.  Another day enjoyed.  Another holiday over.