waste as art exhibition

Well off to the opening tomorrow at 10.00 with a friend, Im looking forward to seeing the works of all exhibitors,  and to see how my maverick the cat recycled toy cat goes.  Will keep you all posted. 

the newest additions on the farm how cute are they

Lexie has done it again 7 puppies all very cute 3 girls and 4 boys.  They were born in the small hours from 12.00 midnight till 6.30 in the morning as you can see all really hungry little folks and lex is doing a great job.

I'm telling you, I am comfortable!

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These guys will grow really quickly over the next few weeks and I will keep you posted with their photos.

the winner

Pumpkin festival visit today

well today was a lovely day and a visit to our local pumpkin festival was fun.  There is a small town here called kootingal and its a real community spirited day.  The locals gather and compete to see who can grow the largest and heaviest pumpkin, and boy is there some big ones there, heaven knows what you do with all that pumpkin.  Ive taken some photos of the pumpkins for you to see.

Ive also been at a friends dairy for a week to look after the goats while his brother got married in Queensland,  I had a great time there early starts of 5.30am and 90 goats to milk twice a day and feed the other 100 or so with their grain and hay.  He has a lovely family property in the Hunter Valley with goats and dairy cows.  When he returned you will see he bought home two little surprises, really cute little alpine cross does they are very much like the american type in colour.

My weekend

What a weekend I did a workshop with Glenys Mann a well known textile artist here in Australia, she travels the world teaching and doing conferences.  Ive signed up for the 6 weeks on saturdays and cant wait till next saturday.  We covered dying and rusting papers and fabrics, we placed the good quality paper in to a tannin bath first then into a caustic soda bath and then into an ironsulphate bath the papers are beautiful and very landscape earth orientated.  I will post photos of the group.  One of the girls did a porcelain doll head and arm it looked great , we are making boxes to hold our treasures,  making great assemblage for the walls.  The photos are just shots of some of the papers I did.

My cement fondue torso sculptures

This was done in 2005 in a TAFE class with a life model , it is a long process but it ends up looking like a bronze statue hence it being called poor mans bronze.    I really enjoyed this process and would like to do more some day.  The exterior is finished with beeswax rubbed in with steel wool.

Hippee Babe

Hi folks this is one of my new sculptures made from recycled goodies the head has come from a doll and added lots other recycled materials I have and a little paint job to keep her interesting .  My inspiration comes from the African Tribe culture.  I hope you enjoy this one.