Audrey the flower girl.

It's been such a long time since I've drawn "My Little Audrey" TSB designer, Collette Landwer, requested and Audrey flower girl with a ring of flowers in her hair and an empire dress (LOL!) and I couldn't resist. I've kept her pretty simple. I thought she'd be easier to work with that way. What do you all think? Do you like all the sparkles around the images that I put? or would you rather have them plain? or a happy medium?

Tracey

... and another door opens

Here are some photos of the cosy area, newly set up on the ground floor of our place in Abbotsford that will serve as my Melbourne workspace for the immediate future. Although it is significantly smaller in scale than the studio I’ve just vacated, I think it will be quite serviceable, especially as most of my current work is also relatively small in scale. 

Pictured from top:

My fantastic desk, acquired from the local op shop.

Sketchbook detail.

Small plan cabinet purchased many years ago in Balaclava, topped by some of the combs and hairpins from my extensive collection. The carved screen, another recent acquisition, gives me some privacy, whilst still letting in some light. It also lends a touch of the exotic; at least I like to think so.

Transferred from my previous studio, these meticulously labeled and ordered drawers (see, I really am trying to mend my ways) contain all the paraphernalia that I need for my zine making activities.

Dilly-Dally

Here's a silly one- Dilly-Dally! LOL! I was just playing around a little with this one. I thought I'd do something fun and whimsical. I feel like I should do something heavy, symbolic and very artistic now. Just to balance the scales.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Tracey

Just some flowers...

I wanted some flowers for a scrapbook page I'm going to do, so these are what I drew. I'm not sure what the ones are called. I don't usually draw flowers so it was something a little different.
Have a fabulous weekend!

My card I made with my Unity "Itty Bitty"

I made this card with the "Itty Bity" that I designed called, "Nature" It says, " Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of it's own." -Charles Dickens. Thanks so much for looking and have a super wonderful afternoon!!

Tracey

Get well Beary soon!

Good morning,
I hope everyone had a nice weekend.
It's going to be rainy here all week. (boo!)
I hope you all like my little boo-boo bear. I think someone took good care of him and he's all snuggly and feeling better. :D
Have a super day!
Tracey

A little image.

I thought that a maypole would be fun to draw. I hope you like it. It's pretty simple.
This weekend is turning out pretty crummy. windy and cold. Yuck! What happened to the beautiful spring weather?
Oh! I'll give a little update on my Snickers. (my wiener dog who had the kidney stones removed) she's back at home and get's to sleep in mommy and daddy's bed. :D She's moving around a lot better today. It was so sad yesterday. My heart was breaking. Well, I guess everyone doesn't want to hear all of this. To wrap it up, she's doing fine and is snoring right next to me as I type.
Have a wonderful weekend my dear friends.
Tracey

Paisley Peacock

hi everyone,
I think I'm about paisley'd out for now. LOL!
I have to take my little wiener dog to the vet to schedule surgery to have kidney stones removed. :( I didn't know dogs had kidney stones! My poor little Snickers!!
Well, off we go. Wish us luck!
Tracey

Girl walking on the beach.

Not the most creative title but, I like the image. I"m anxious to work on her to see if I can get the water right. I think I'll use colored pencils. It looks pretty challenging. There's a lot of water to color.
I hope everyone is having a terrific weekend. It's so pretty here in Indiana. Warm and sunny! Yay!
Have a wonderful evening!!!!

Tracey

Last post of the day! Seriously!

I just had to draw another Paisley Mermaid. I had so much fun with the first one. I hope everyone is having a nice evening.

Tracey

Man, why can't I make a card????????

I wish I could make ONE card like my designers do. Mine are always so plain. So boring. I try to spruce them up but, then they just looked like a first grader did them. uggggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess I'll stick with drawing. :(
Tracey

Paisley Mermaid

Another newbie for today!
She was so much fun that I think I may do more.
Have a super day everyone!
Tracey

A little birthday fairy...

I drew this little fairy last night. I really need to start working on images to work for boys. I have two sisters and two daughters. No boys anywhere. I just don't know how to relate to boys. What are boys into these days???

A door closes...

In 2007 I took over a large room in the city of Melbourne that was to be my studio for over four years. Despite the frustration of persistent leaks (how many artists through the ages have had to endure those?) some of the most productively happy times of my life were spent there. Once I was inside, all else but the work fell away. The saga of the mysterious Moth Women, who first saw the light of day in my Abbotsford studio, continued here, and flourished. And here I created The enchanted hair ornaments, the multi-panelled painting which morphed into the fairy tale of the same name - the first story I ever wrote. More recently it was where the Winged Women linocuts and paintings were hatched.

So now it ends. Notice has been given and although I have not quite vacated my studio, it is close to empty and my head and heart are already elsewhere. Last weekend on iPhoto I trawled through some of the umpteen photographs I have taken there over the years, and found I had tears in my eyes. There’s no denying the time is right to move on, but I will take a great many memories with me. I will also be taking the gargantuan spider plant from my little balcony – a living monument to survival against the odds. It was there when I moved in, puny and barely alive. The room had been vacant for some time, and because of the ongoing drought, the plant couldn’t even depend on rain water for sustenance. I’m not known for my green thumb, but having nurtured it back to life (it particularly seems to thrive on washing up water) there’s no way I’m leaving it behind.

Here are some before, during and after shots. As the pictures show, the walls I inherited were in dire need of repainting. I took over the studio in the full heat of summer. My partner Shane (who I can never thank enough, both then and now) came in at night and worked late with me. Hard, sweaty work, but more happy memories. After working for hours in seclusion, stepping out into the buzz of the city on a summer night always gave us a startling, but not unpleasant jolt. Sometimes we’d stop for a cooling beer at an outdoor café on Federation Square to relax and unwind before heading off home.

An old friend is taking over the studio. It’s a solace to know I can still drop in occasionally to visit her, the other artists on my floor, Francine in the office, who has been such a good friend to us all, and my old studio. It’s a shame the owners of this fine old building don’t care about it as much as its tenants do.

Now Shane and I are just about back where we begun, living and working in our place at Abbotsford. But more of this and other developments once I am settled and sorted.

The Princess and the Pea

I worked on this today and thought it came out pretty cute. I hope you all like her too.
Perfect for all of our little princesses out there. :D

Have a wonderful evening!
Tracey

Attention artistic divas!

I have a quote/image today by Cleopatra. I love this quote. My husband so didn't get it.

"Fool! I could have poisened you a hundred times if I could have lived without you."
                                                                                                                -Cleopatra
Isn't it great? I just loved it. I hope you all enjoy it also.
Have a wonderful evening!

Tracey

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it." -Marilyn Monroe

When I saw this quote, I knew I had to do something with it. This is what I came up with. I hope you like it.
Have a fabulous evening friends.

Tracey  :D