tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80931211381660398292024-03-14T05:35:26.561+09:30What I did on FridayKate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.comBlogger288125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-6243608642161977142022-06-23T08:09:00.002+09:302022-06-23T08:09:49.946+09:30Days 1 to 16 ICAD2022<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXkssheujHaVRibSBDWLgKi7dBD99j7SGXs3xbST-65uA3bKbHGgVH4bGPmCsMoVv_xGNgWjI_J0enUF9Cz7svaT5rY4GxIjFHeii-5wTHcZREUnCH0eZtI-VSQpj_IJnDtiEttZOuC1PKh7y5JXL8XaRvRTQQ3YmE8HcN2ebLZqbL61pUMe7vD9tp/s2592/20220610_080052.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXkssheujHaVRibSBDWLgKi7dBD99j7SGXs3xbST-65uA3bKbHGgVH4bGPmCsMoVv_xGNgWjI_J0enUF9Cz7svaT5rY4GxIjFHeii-5wTHcZREUnCH0eZtI-VSQpj_IJnDtiEttZOuC1PKh7y5JXL8XaRvRTQQ3YmE8HcN2ebLZqbL61pUMe7vD9tp/w400-h300/20220610_080052.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Days 1 to 9</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikmxl1wJgWy48Utd5OXFAmLt5c0veUEujzjfNgtqvKcO--D8C7WsUAaczjXKZwhoSX0w5QoIYqGg2K4FrJknn43AcJJT772-GwsjquSXLhXbUqfZ1N42Lw7qwf7ksb9ttSXHFjVniUizZUgXruHmzg94h3yYuu4jIe2apMen7L0z8PrhPWqPauK6Eg/s2592/20220610_075628.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikmxl1wJgWy48Utd5OXFAmLt5c0veUEujzjfNgtqvKcO--D8C7WsUAaczjXKZwhoSX0w5QoIYqGg2K4FrJknn43AcJJT772-GwsjquSXLhXbUqfZ1N42Lw7qwf7ksb9ttSXHFjVniUizZUgXruHmzg94h3yYuu4jIe2apMen7L0z8PrhPWqPauK6Eg/w300-h400/20220610_075628.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p>Days 1 and 2. It's funny where inspiration comes from, something that's just at hand sitting in front of me on my art bench, an image from an art calendar. In a way it doesn't matter what the subject is, but just to be getting my paints or pencils out and making a little time in the evening for art.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghIWQrviLg3hY6Cmu-W4FtNa4HZ44WUach2TJSLWE3Eim8oKb7coWa5ccW0dNVlrkQNWxetSWa4s74wpO7AIuIhxc4o1qvzsC1yWNrRokJXEa7wEGJUNWQ7yjsMT926d9uyNHuSP9Dk75O0Hul114Z0ig5ByL9dOgjcozQ5mHOuyYljJVs-HsYRTLU/s2592/20220610_075705.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghIWQrviLg3hY6Cmu-W4FtNa4HZ44WUach2TJSLWE3Eim8oKb7coWa5ccW0dNVlrkQNWxetSWa4s74wpO7AIuIhxc4o1qvzsC1yWNrRokJXEa7wEGJUNWQ7yjsMT926d9uyNHuSP9Dk75O0Hul114Z0ig5ByL9dOgjcozQ5mHOuyYljJVs-HsYRTLU/w300-h400/20220610_075705.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p>Days 3 and 4. Again loosely based on images on an art calendar.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpb_qVSgkeK2ZPVUJKxMpB1isnRmkM6vbFeoBAKgYbf_b1jTtxqD0dUas4PR3tVgLFxEt7dJOkEFoTVaCNEYpMqw6MMFK9y3KpHaXdo2EBUSKuKPhhOHNQ4xPuad3RjAqhbzZvi10GO7AgLriPqLx0SwcvXUu7wHAZHSbCU_ls0IaEod2nY-XM0wgx/s2592/20220610_075748.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpb_qVSgkeK2ZPVUJKxMpB1isnRmkM6vbFeoBAKgYbf_b1jTtxqD0dUas4PR3tVgLFxEt7dJOkEFoTVaCNEYpMqw6MMFK9y3KpHaXdo2EBUSKuKPhhOHNQ4xPuad3RjAqhbzZvi10GO7AgLriPqLx0SwcvXUu7wHAZHSbCU_ls0IaEod2nY-XM0wgx/w300-h400/20220610_075748.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p>Days 5 and 6. These are much more like my usual paintings, based on my walks at the water gardens and the beach, I work from memory sketches and bad photos! Very happy that the one on the right then inspired a proper painting which would never have happened without icad bringing up ideas!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpdB7wHC_qMrn3Ko8dp7jcz4yhk4G0bOcwH-clKYDOCT-NH7Gd_8RylS_iH4d5t883XIn5UER0aGGbpEj5boNep0oIdL7Y_n6YlUeh5Hz-otd4YOZ0ZQdH2XNY4vOYCfUr0AWxqmw-lpKjR9XzOPlVYJhKk1yz69P48M0APQltYu9mYFoHzpQorixk/s2592/20220610_075820.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpdB7wHC_qMrn3Ko8dp7jcz4yhk4G0bOcwH-clKYDOCT-NH7Gd_8RylS_iH4d5t883XIn5UER0aGGbpEj5boNep0oIdL7Y_n6YlUeh5Hz-otd4YOZ0ZQdH2XNY4vOYCfUr0AWxqmw-lpKjR9XzOPlVYJhKk1yz69P48M0APQltYu9mYFoHzpQorixk/w300-h400/20220610_075820.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p>Days 7 and 8. Again these ones are of the nightcliff foreshore, the bike path through the trees and looking out across the mouth of rapid creek, the same composition as day 6 but trying more muted colours.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_6P-o_6ZxTdTLvybExS1G7snTad4DvCk8smy6Pgvug4YcuLSgbnHd3JnOs1OgBwTLxVgYQqqeVOOPFoKn0JiG4M4Ee8twNDLzpj5ID5bbCpT0R6eAtMVIQS73JdvXV05736LO0If1-wJuE2uOOkwxy5sslfmK_g08fGp2-8nwgxhxRMFNmEeax-sE/s2592/20220610_075840.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_6P-o_6ZxTdTLvybExS1G7snTad4DvCk8smy6Pgvug4YcuLSgbnHd3JnOs1OgBwTLxVgYQqqeVOOPFoKn0JiG4M4Ee8twNDLzpj5ID5bbCpT0R6eAtMVIQS73JdvXV05736LO0If1-wJuE2uOOkwxy5sslfmK_g08fGp2-8nwgxhxRMFNmEeax-sE/w300-h400/20220610_075840.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p>Day 9 was back to the art calendar!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizQC7CK89hLniwArfqal0f_aUHCeTYZ_OzGq6pW8AwqzMQiy1QIz4jeTKLBcpwrMQulakkwl-a5nRx8C1pJP56QdhcqUT7z2rdBzcPIq8NCLfOkI9x8gna3yGMoGYHg5ViNZO9YueazVyi07mUfr5f1tDpTVyWWonTgiZGcS00p2-wwQk9hmboC1Y1/s2592/20220617_074131.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizQC7CK89hLniwArfqal0f_aUHCeTYZ_OzGq6pW8AwqzMQiy1QIz4jeTKLBcpwrMQulakkwl-a5nRx8C1pJP56QdhcqUT7z2rdBzcPIq8NCLfOkI9x8gna3yGMoGYHg5ViNZO9YueazVyi07mUfr5f1tDpTVyWWonTgiZGcS00p2-wwQk9hmboC1Y1/w400-h300/20220617_074131.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Days 10 to 16. I felt like I floundered around for subject matter this week, and wasn't that happy with what I produced, on the last 2 days I worked from an episode of gardening australia pausing the video on interesting compositions and sketching from that. The figure in a garden is definitely a subject I'm interested in, and I have continued on this theme through days 17 to 22, and possibly beyond! I'll share those next time!</p><p>Best wishes to all, and if you're having a go at ICAD I hope you're having fun with it.</p>Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-47299498450601862462022-06-05T17:35:00.001+09:302022-06-05T17:35:35.797+09:30ICAD 2022<p> It's been a long time between posts! If you follow me on instagram you'll know I've been painting pretty steadily for the last year and a half. </p><p>When I started this blog my kids were still little, I had one free morning a week with no work and no kids and that was my painting morning which inspired my blog name - what I did on Friday! </p><p>Over the years I've sometimes had more time, but found it didn't equate to more creativity, in fact it usually meant more procrastination. For the last year or so I've set aside Sunday morning for painting, and I get my paints out no matter what, often I only have an hour or so before I have to drive someone somewhere, but it's enough time to get a little painting done. I also try to go out walking and sketching through the week, tiny fast 5 minute sketches help me to really look and give me subjects for my paintings. </p><p>And now to ICAD!</p><p>ICAD is an index card a day challenge which runs through June and July it's the idea of @gypsy999 (on instagram or daisy yellow blog) you can find out more info there including daily and weekly prompts...which I will probably ignore and go my own way. I'm excited to be carving out a little bit of time in the evenings to do my icad a time of day when I'm low energy and usually in front of the tv. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie1QOTCvxwfV2iUhcr1GoZCOdIBPHH1dc7hQ2TuQXR8RX_BjbGUljDeOCI2S79YzzG0hBrZQ3rN55NAoE6PjK-_7uf6_6GZffl5uBRaTJCcsdGqX1vEwoTAVvGsgziGJFmWXPKi271SzXyfKLleAcIupuley3HXGVCfzZ6RBNzPBYQ_mWUjj1gwwDG/s2592/20220531_100221.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie1QOTCvxwfV2iUhcr1GoZCOdIBPHH1dc7hQ2TuQXR8RX_BjbGUljDeOCI2S79YzzG0hBrZQ3rN55NAoE6PjK-_7uf6_6GZffl5uBRaTJCcsdGqX1vEwoTAVvGsgziGJFmWXPKi271SzXyfKLleAcIupuley3HXGVCfzZ6RBNzPBYQ_mWUjj1gwwDG/w300-h400/20220531_100221.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div>These are my warm up cards done before the 1st June, I will post again soon with my icads from the first week.</div>Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-78002108713401983482021-04-03T10:44:00.004+09:302021-04-03T10:44:45.258+09:30Lots and lots of little paintings<p> Since the xmas craft fair at the end of November I have tried to make time for painting every Sunday morning, even if it's only for an hour or so. I work small - on 4x4 inch canvas boards, now and again expanding onto 5x7, which feels huge in comparison. Over the 4 months - December through March - I've done a lot of little paintings.... they are all painted at my verandah table at home. When I'm out walking I often take (bad) photos or do little sketches that I use for inspiration for the paintings, but I haven't been brave enough to paint outdoors.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M3u6pQZs54M/YGe-BdMaj5I/AAAAAAAADYo/ymIABAPr-u8fOjOp8XhC-yCSX7HutSangCLcBGAsYHQ/s1944/IMG_20201227_110741_694.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="1944" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M3u6pQZs54M/YGe-BdMaj5I/AAAAAAAADYo/ymIABAPr-u8fOjOp8XhC-yCSX7HutSangCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20201227_110741_694.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>So a bunch of the paintings are of the place where I sit when I go for my walk at the beach. The view out to sea across the rocky shore off sunset park at Nightcliff - it's wonderful to see storm clouds and dramatic skies at this time of year, the wet season, and I've tried to capture some of that, the same view in different weather.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DpoOQ9eN0mc/YGe-KUfetYI/AAAAAAAADYs/RVJswr1nL8g-7EgSG10Lkr4IBeA7jSdXgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/IMG_20210131_121733_199.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DpoOQ9eN0mc/YGe-KUfetYI/AAAAAAAADYs/RVJswr1nL8g-7EgSG10Lkr4IBeA7jSdXgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210131_121733_199.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>A couple of the paintings are of sunset park, the shady trees and glise of the sea beyond, and people enjoying it someone reading, someone walking their dog.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iUYlMDpNG1A/YGe-YwNnWVI/AAAAAAAADY0/rWUxEKLbJgkjRMjD__BCy96T8KKhGaUmACLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/IMG_20210221_111725_332.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iUYlMDpNG1A/YGe-YwNnWVI/AAAAAAAADY0/rWUxEKLbJgkjRMjD__BCy96T8KKhGaUmACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210221_111725_332.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>A Nightcliff landmark is the jetty, and It has made an appearance in a couple of paintings!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4_3WcpDlj4g/YGe-nXuQeNI/AAAAAAAADY4/lM3vSDm5t78641USK3NLzrjK0e0zt_MMACLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/IMG_20210207_110014_244.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4_3WcpDlj4g/YGe-nXuQeNI/AAAAAAAADY4/lM3vSDm5t78641USK3NLzrjK0e0zt_MMACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210207_110014_244.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>Another group of paintings are still life's, which I do paint from life - a twig of gumtree flowers I picked up at the park, a new pot plant...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f2MT9yc18LQ/YGe-8zKBlsI/AAAAAAAADZE/lPWuciRMOVETdyf7SN-3xyC6aaBnOqSyQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20210103_132847_854.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1923" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f2MT9yc18LQ/YGe-8zKBlsI/AAAAAAAADZE/lPWuciRMOVETdyf7SN-3xyC6aaBnOqSyQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210103_132847_854.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>The best painting sessions have been when I knew what I wanted to paint, if I don't have a clear idea the painting doesn't go well. That seems to be the opposite of the nugget of wisdom about not waiting for inspiration to strike, to just get on with it.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HxWubONc89Q/YGe_Jjf2RXI/AAAAAAAADZI/zXOdVUPo73EdmyHG8kAxbe0clIu4za1EQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1944/IMG_20210307_112519_232.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="1944" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HxWubONc89Q/YGe_Jjf2RXI/AAAAAAAADZI/zXOdVUPo73EdmyHG8kAxbe0clIu4za1EQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210307_112519_232.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>I feel like this wave of painting is coming to an end - perhaps it's the change of season. The dry season is approaching, I feel the urge to get out walking more often and get back into the garden. These things will 'fill the well' and inspire the next wave of painting. (The idea of filling the well is from Julia Cameron's book The Artist's Way.) </p><p>Also the first craft fair of the year is coming up at the beginning of May, so I need to get prepared for that. I feel very lucky that these events can go ahead almost as normal in Darwin, while so many other parts of the world are still in lockdown. For those in the northern hemisphere I hope that spring and the easing of restrictions is bringing a little joy :)</p>Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-15875966539289220202021-02-24T08:37:00.004+09:302021-02-24T08:37:32.910+09:30The thing that made me do lifebook this year!<p> I've taken lifebook before in 2017 and 2018 and I enjoyed it, but also missed a lot of classes, I probably only did a third of what was on offer, and felt that it was aimed at someone with less experience than me... I've been paintin and drawing pretty consistently for the last 40 years!</p><p>But back in late November I think, there were some taster lessons that ran for 2 weeks. It's a busy time of year so I only watched 4 of the short classes and only attempted 2 of them. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8WqNb-E4CJc/YDWKDcIqfGI/AAAAAAAADRo/9wlhh2xytqwoKMH6YH8Kf5g6Liq2fLcwACPcBGAsYHg/s2592/20210216_075622.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8WqNb-E4CJc/YDWKDcIqfGI/AAAAAAAADRo/9wlhh2xytqwoKMH6YH8Kf5g6Liq2fLcwACPcBGAsYHg/w400-h300/20210216_075622.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>One was this wonderful art journalling lesson with Pia Rom - combining paint, collage and words to find a story. It felt like such an interesting and easy way to build an image. (By easy I think I mean sidestepping the inner critic) It seemed to open doors in my mind for how I might approach artmaking and journalling. That one lesson convinced me to try lifebook again, that there are new things there for me to learn and new inspiration.</p><p>Do take a look @piaromsart on instagram, her journal pages are stunning and now she's playing with little clay figures too.... looking forward to doing her full lifebook lesson!</p>Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-20324775922015494002021-01-10T13:14:00.001+09:302021-01-10T13:14:28.425+09:30Happy new year and Lifebook 2021<p> I have treated myself to the online art and wellbeing course Lifebook for this year. I have tried it befor in 2017 and 2018, and enjoyed being introduced to so many different artists/teachers and new approaches and techniques. I also remember being overwhelmed by so many lessons, usually 2 a week (plus other bonus material) there can be hours of video which I don't have enough time for. So I'm doing it my way, as much as I can manage on a smaller scale than they suggest - I'm doing mine in an A5 journal , not loose sheets to be bound at the end. Also I'm not taking part in the facebook group, I don't enjoy facebook (to put it mildly) and don't want to waste time there or be too overwhelmed or influenced by other people's work.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t8Bim_kXImE/X_p3OPpNw5I/AAAAAAAAB8s/kTzqSVPDCkkzcpGJCF5_XSfTjK9zViJagCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210110_110643.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t8Bim_kXImE/X_p3OPpNw5I/AAAAAAAAB8s/kTzqSVPDCkkzcpGJCF5_XSfTjK9zViJagCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210110_110643.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>Here's my first piece for the year! A warm up, I followed the instructions fairly closely and enjoyed the layering, stencilling and markmaking. It includes my word of the year - renaissance- along with the dictionary meaning "cultural or artistic revival." 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I will skip week 2 for now as the week 3 lessons will be out on Tuesday.</p><p>Happy new year and best wishes to you, take care of yourselves especially those back in lockdown, hoping things improve as the year goes on and vaccines are rolled out.</p>Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-6454538753242493332020-12-12T22:33:00.000+09:302020-12-12T22:33:14.150+09:30Back from a looong break!<p> It's been a very long time between posts, mainly because I stopped making art for a big chunk of the year...from May to October really. </p><p>When the pandemic arrived and exhibitions and craft fairs stopped, there was little motivation to make work, and then I discovered that I liked the peace in my mind without that critical voice that always questions whether my art is any good, whether there is any point in doing this. </p><p>So I enjoyed my time gardening, I got good at growing basil from seed! And I focused on my twins in their final year of school, driving them here and there, being around to talk to and make snacks!!</p><p>We're very lucky in Darwin, we've had very few cases of coronavirus, we had a brief, lockdown in April/May after that life gradually returned to fairly normal except for restrictions on travel. So the thing that got me started again art making was the xmas craft fair. I decided in October to take part, and then had 6 weeks of madly getting prepared! 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If you're curious about lifebook there are some taster sessions which I think have been reopened to try for a week, go to visit willowing.org to find out more.</p><p>Sending my best wishes to you, I'm sorry if you've had a hard year and I hope 2021 will be better.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zh4ro2Kqf0k/X9S_Mt-qeXI/AAAAAAAAB7w/aryU2xTT9Hwg5jn60fQHVB7ZxlbFdmIXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1944/IMG_20201206_113210_090.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="1944" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zh4ro2Kqf0k/X9S_Mt-qeXI/AAAAAAAAB7w/aryU2xTT9Hwg5jn60fQHVB7ZxlbFdmIXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20201206_113210_090.jpg" /></a></div><br />Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-19364219885497356742020-05-31T14:20:00.000+09:302020-05-31T14:20:17.199+09:30A strange time for a digital detoxHello, I hope you're safe and well where ever you are. We are living through strange and unexpected times, and because everyone's experience is quite different I thought that there's value in writing down how it's been for me.<br />
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I want to acknowledge that I'm very lucky, I didn't lose my job. I live with my partner and 3 kids so I haven't been lonely! We are homebodies, so it wasn't a big change to stay mostly at home. In the NT we've had only 30 cases of coronavirus and no deaths (so far, who knows what will happen when the borders re-open).<br />
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But I've been worried about my mum who lives alone in England, and I wonder how long it will be until I can visit her. I've been worried for my twins who are in their final year of school, how much harder it's going to be for them to find a job at the end of the year.<br />
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I don't usually look at the news, but as the situation blew up through March and into April I started checking the news several times a day. As soon as I realised the May craft fair wouldn't go ahead I dropped all the things I was working on for that - stopped making art altogether for a while. I spent more time than ever on instagram and felt a bit jealous of people in lockdown who were producing beautiful artwork, baking, crafting, and more. And I felt overwhelmed by all the free online content that was suddenly on offer, I didn't have time for any of it.<br />
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By good luck I reread Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport in April, and decided to have a digital detox in May. No more looking at news apps, no instagram except for half an hour at the weekends. I checked my emails morning and evening and tried to keep off other than that - only going on to check specific things, how to get somewhere on google maps, how to deal with ants on the veggie plants, etc. I don't do facebook, pinterest, or twitter, so they weren't a problem.<br />
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I noticed that spending time clicking about online makes my energy and motivation drop. If I get up in the morning and have my brekkie and then get on with something, whether it's gardening or getting the paints out, I'll get so much more done with my day than if I get up and go online. I think to myself I'll just go on instagram for 5 minutes, and an hour later I'm still there checking somebody's blog, or some course that I'm never going to do. And then I feel bad that I've wasted the best bit of the day, and everything goes downhill from there...<br />
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So even though it's June tomorrow I won't be going back to my old habits. I think restricting my time online is a way I can take care of myself through the stresses of the coming months.<br />
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<br />Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-50641429424331102012020-01-14T21:27:00.000+09:302020-01-14T21:27:24.157+09:30New year, new little paintings!I always find the end of the year a bit too hectic for my liking! In November I'm madly getting ready for the xmas craft fair, and once that's out of the way I have to think about xmas presents, putting the tree up, Kriskringles and xmas get togethers...this year I got the flu at the beginning of December and took weeks to really get over it, so xmas was pretty low key at my house (my kids are almost adults, so they didn't care as long as there was good food to eat!).<br />
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So thank goodness it's January, life goes at a slower pace now, and I can make time for some painting. I'm working on tiny 4x4 inch canvas boards, so far they are all of evening in the suburbs, based on the odd photos I take now and again - I go out to the washing line, or to water the garden at dusk, and notice the sky is doing something amazing, so I run inside to get my tablet and take a photo or 2. Most of the time the photos are not that great but they help me remember. I'm enjoying working with more reference material after previously working mostly from imagination/memory.<br />
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<br />Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-19500246326868527802019-11-07T20:06:00.002+09:302019-11-07T20:06:58.904+09:30I do like Atkinson Grimshaw!Last year I did a blogpost - Little things that are making me happy- One of those things was an artwork-a-day desk calendar, I loved it so much I got another one this year, and this was the artwork for the day a week ago.<br />
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I love the little surprise each day when the new artwork is revealed, and this one made me say 'oh gorgeous'. When I looked more closely I found it was painted by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893), an artist I'd dismissed as a teenager. Grimshaw was from Leeds (like me), and there are several of his paintings in the Leeds Art Gallery. When I used to visit I'd walk quickly through that room in search of something more 'modern', wishing there was a Matisse or a Gauguin in the collection!!<br />
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Grimshaw was a Victorian realist, mostly painting urban scenes often at night or evening, big canvasses in oils of gas lit streets and misty waterfronts, they seemed very old fashioned to me.<br />
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This painting is watercolour and gouache on paper, which is different for a start, and it's a country scene not the city. But what grabs me is that wonderful sky and the bare winter tree on the right. It doesn't feel old fashioned to me, if anything it feels timeless, and it makes me want to go out with my paints and capture the sky at dusk and the shape of trees against the sky.<br />
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Apparently this painting is in the Leeds Art Gallery collection, I don't know whether it's on display, but hopefully next time I'm in England I'll get to see it in the flesh.<br />
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Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-19189748078043263022019-07-28T19:55:00.000+09:302019-07-28T19:55:30.352+09:30Sketching wet season skiesHello blog friends..... Wow, it's a long time since I posted. I never meant that to happen, it makes it hard to jump back in. Why now? There's nothing special to write about, but I'll just write something and hopefully get back in the habit.<br />
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One of the good things that happened last wet season was sketching regularly at the beach... For years and years I've said I want to paint the wet season clouds, skies can be so dramatic at that time of year. About 10 years ago I bought myself a beautiful moleskine A4 sketchbook for this exact purpose. Needless to say it was too beautiful to use, and is still on my shelf it's plastic wrapper unopened!!<br />
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So what made it happen this year? One thing was the terrible weather - it was relentlessly hot and humid with little rain to cool things down. Usually I go to the beach to walk, but I realised I was getting home so drained I was worn out for the rest of the day. I thought I don't have to punish myself like this! But I still wanted to go to the beach so I took my sketchbook and a chair instead!<br />
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The other thing that helped was sorting out a small sketching kit that worked for me - an aquabrush (no need for a waterpot and extra brushes) a couple of watercolour pencils and a dried up watercolour palette - I squeezed out tube watercolours onto a small palette rather than taking a big watercolour set.<br />
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I went sketching a couple of times a week from Xmas to the end of March, and made around 30 sketches. They are tiny 10x15cm in a little cheap sketchbook. Some are good and some are not so good, and that's ok because it was really about the process; about spending time looking, about playing with watercolours a medium I rarely use, about going back again and again for another try, and in the end achieving something I'd wanted to do for a long time.<br />
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<br />Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-86356215072013145842018-10-14T16:30:00.000+09:302018-10-14T16:30:03.001+09:30I'm still here!!! And new lino prints!!I can't believe it's three months since I posted here, I didn't mean to leave it so long.<br />
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I haven't done any more of the life book lessons, but by the end of July, and the end of the index card a day challenge, I had some inspiration of my own, and started chiselling my first lino in over a year. I've done 4 new linos so far and started making them into cards. They are all inspired by plants in my garden, ferns and flowers. I've played around with some multicolour reduction prints, as well as hand colouring black and white prints. It was so exciting to peel back that first print, it felt like coming home. I've added a couple of my new cards to my Etsy shop, and I'm hoping to do an Xmas craft fair this year!<br />
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I'm trying to keep the ball rolling by making small actions each day - they might seem tiny or pointless but they gradually add up. For example, I got started by going hunting for a packet of coloured card I'd bought over a year ago. The next day I worked out what size I wanted the cards to be and cut up a few sheets, the next day I cut up a few more sheets. It was a few days before I sat down and drew a design onto a piece of lino.<br />
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I feel like the universe is giving me a helping hand too. In June I was made permanent part-time at work, so my hours are much more predictable than when I was casual, it makes it much easier to schedule in time for art making.<br />
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I feel like there's much more to say, but I'd better post this before another month goes past. I am posting some of my art and garden photos on Instagram @fernyhoughkate, but I don't want to stop blogging... hopefully it won't be three months til the next post!!<br />
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<br />Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-28142213742015556012018-07-13T15:50:00.002+09:302018-07-13T15:50:36.523+09:30Getting stalled and getting restartedSince I last posted I have ground to a halt with lifebook - the yearlong online art course I'm doing. I did a couple more lessons, week 12<br />
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Then I jumped ahead to week 20, because it was a lesson with Mystele Kirkeeng an artist I've followed on Flickr for many years. I was really keen to get some insight into her art making process. It was a lesson with lots of layering and markmaking, using lots of different materials to build up a wonderful abstract underpainting. I loved the freedom of this part of the lesson, but when I got to the point of trying to find a figure in all that wildness I was really resistant to covering up what I'd done and losing it. I worked on 2 pieces, doing one while the other dried. It took weeks to do all the layers, just spending half an hour here and there on it. Then there was a week or 2 of wrestling with myself about the last part of the lesson, and wondering if I was done or not...<br />
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By then I'd lost all my momentum, not to mention feeling like I'd failed at the lesson I'd had the highest expectation about.<br />
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In the meantime it rolled around to the month of June and the index card a day challenge (ICAD). You can find out all about it at daisy <a href="https://daisyyellowart.com/">yellow</a> blog or on Instagram @gypsy999. It's a really doable challenge of doing 'something's on an index card everyday through June and July. So 61 cards in the end. It only takes 5 or 10 minutes to doodle a mandala, or collage some bits and pieces from a magazine. Getting back into a creative habit is much more important than the pieces of work.<br />
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When my kids were little I used to make time in the evenings to sit at my desk and do a bit of drawing or writing after they went to bed. Now my oldest is 20 - still living at home - and the twins are 15, they all stay up later than me!! And there isn't really a time of quiet - unless I make it happen. It has to be said that the internet especially Instagram can be very distracting/time consuming, and though I don't usually watch a huge amount of tv, I'm hooked on the current season of (Aussie) Masterchef, which is on 5 nights a week and gobbling up too much of my time!!<br />
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Well enough of the excuses, here are some of my index cards, many are drawn from paused YouTube and Iview videos. The musicians are from NPR's tiny desk concerts. (I used to dream of coming back in my next life as an opera singer, but now I want to be a Scandinavian violin player!!) The tv shows I've drawn from are Gardening Australia and Endeavour. It'll be interesting to see where I grab inspiration from for the last couple of weeks.<br />
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Here's a little thing I wrote about the lifebook lesson that stalled me.<br />
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Lesson 20<br />
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The artist says<br />
take an emotion<br />
and express it with paint<br />
on paper, then a layer of pastels<br />
then collage, more paint<br />
then wet it and scrape it back.<br />
Hold on, I think,<br />
I'm attached to that patch<br />
of turquoise and that circle of red<br />
and the dark blue that bled<br />
with spidery marks<br />
I've been careful not to<br />
cover up.<br />
All this layering and losing it.<br />
How can I hold it lightly.<br />
How can I take it seriously but carelessly<br />
let it go.<br />
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<br />Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-64041980668440323912018-05-09T16:57:00.000+09:302018-05-09T16:57:32.429+09:30Little things that are making me happyHere are three little things that are making me happy.<br />
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Number 1. An artwork-a-day desk calendar. I bought this half price in the January sales and it gives me so much pleasure. I'm being super strict about not peeping ahead, so everyday there's a little surprise. Some days are an old favourite like this - Vermeer's Girl with a pearl earring - but often it's an artwork I've never seen before by an artist I've never heard of. I love the contrast too, one day a sentimental Victorian painting of a child and her dog, the next day a hard edged abstract piece... I'm also looking forward to when the year is over and I can glue the pictures into journals, cut up, collage and use for inspiration.<br />
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Number 2. A pot of flowers at my front door. This time last year I was in England in spring, the tulips were out and blossoms on the trees. We saw some gorgeous gardens in York and at Harlow Carr in Harrogate. When I came home I was discouraged about my overgrown, chaotic, tropical garden. I longed to have an English flower garden. I don't really think that's achievable! But I can have a pot of flowers by the front door and enjoy them every time I go in and out. These are vincas, the come in a range of pinks and reds, right through to dark purples, the are very hardy in Darwin's hot sun, and handle my not very green fingers!!<br />
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Number 3. Fruit in the park. The dry season is here, (that's a BIG reason to be happy, not a little reason!) The temerature's dropped a few degrees and the humidity is way down. So instead of rushing home from work to collapse under a fan, these days I stop at the park for 5 minutes and eat a mandarin, and try to relax and notice whatever's going on.<br />
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The dry season means more things are happening around town. This Saturday is the Seabreeze Festival, with stages and stalls all along Nightcliff foreshore. Then the last weekend in May is Wordstorm the writer's festival. I'm hoping to get to both!Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-39350172933999643322018-04-21T14:12:00.000+09:302018-04-21T14:12:12.125+09:30How I'm going with lifebook - April 2018This is my 2nd year of doing the 'art course' Lifebook, I wasn't sure whether to take it again as last year I pretty much dropped out of the second half of the year. The thing that swayed me was lifelong access to the lessons, so even if I don't complete things through the year I can go back anytime and watch the videos and have a go.<br />
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One thing I'm doing differently this year is I'm not visiting the facebook group or posting my work to it - though I am posting on instagram. So I'm less influenced by the work other lifebookers are doing, and I'm not comparing my work to theirs. This year I'm much more on my own journey. Sometimes I follow the instructions closely. Sometimes I watch the first video and then go off on my own tangent and never watch the end of the lessson!! What matters to me is that I'm doing some art and trying new approaches.<br />
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I'm lagging behind, I've just started my week 12 piece, when the week 16 lesson is now available, and there are lots of lessons I've missed, some because they needed equipment I don't have- a gelliplate, or encaustic wax materials - some because another lesson grabbed my attention more. Some weeks there are 2 lessons. So as the year unfolds there's a real smorgasbord to choose from, you'd have to be very dedicated to do them all!!<br />
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The week 6 lesson was one where I went my own way - A heart full of happy with Tamara Laporte- was a whimsical girl in w/c and markers. The face was in 3/4 pose and I have a photo of my mum in that pose on my desk, so I used that as a reference for my piece, and it turned out very different in style and feeling to the lesson. Sometimes I think I'm just contrary, and that if the lesson had been to work from a photo of a family member I'd have decided to do something completely different.<br />
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The week 9 lesson - Friends are the flowers in life's garden with Effy Wild- was one that I followed closely except I left out the lettering.<br />
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Week 10 was a lovely lesson with (Aussie!) Laura Horn, laying down a loose background and then drawing in natural elements in ink using a satay stick. I loved the unexpected expressive mark making that reults from drawing with a stick, and I've been inspired to make some cards and do some sketchbook work based on this lesson...it's exciting to feel inspired!!!<br />
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The week 11 lesson was Grateful Heart with Annie Hamman. Annie was probably my favourite teacher from last year, and this was another lovely lesson. It's a very simple composition, but the texture and layering bring such richness to the piece. Her philosophy is to allow the piece to unfold, that once you start intuition and the expression of feelings will change the direction the work goes in. As she says - let's be brave and go ahead.<br />
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<br />Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-46746457785838240922018-03-23T20:56:00.000+09:302018-03-23T20:56:03.602+09:30Cyclone Marcus 17th March 2018Last Saturday a cyclone hit Darwin, it formed on Friday a category 1 (the least strong). One of the girls at work described it as kite flying weather, and we laughed about customers who were rushing in to buy torches, gas bottles, tarps...<br />
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BUT on Saturday it strengthened to a category 2. I started the morning sitting on the verandah watching the rain and trees buffetting in the wind, feeling grumpy about missing out on my morning walk. At 10.30 the power went out, and by 11 I thought I'd better go inside as the wind cranked up and branches snapped off trees and palms in our yard blew over.<br />
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The track of the cyclone passed right over Darwin, winds of 130km were recorded the strongest for 30 years. The worst of the storm was for about an hour in the middle of the day. It quickly calmed down, and when I ventured out to the end of the street mid afternoon, I was shocked to see so many trees down in every direction.<br />
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I feel stupid that we were so unprepared - I used to have a cyclone kit but the tinned food and bottled water got too old, I threw it out and never replaced it. We had cheese sandwiches for dinner that night!<br />
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We were lucky that our power came back on the next morning, some suburbs were without power for 5 days. We were lucky that I had a little radio so we could listen to the news updates, and that we had torches batteries and candles kicking around the house. We were lucky that I'm a bad housewife!!! The fridge needed defrosting and had a big lump of ice up the back that kept the milk cool.<br />
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These photos are of the aftermath of the cyclone. My walk to work takes me past two parks, I'm not much of a photographer but I wanted a record of these fallen giants. I know that in a few months the memory will fade, I'll forget how extreme and frightening the storm was. Hopefully these photos will remind me of how powerful the cyclone was and to take the next one seriously.<br />
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<br />Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-68509137049781467072018-02-12T14:45:00.002+09:302018-02-12T14:45:33.661+09:30Changing priorities The last few months it feels like I've taken off a worn out, much loved, old coat, and now I'm wondering what to put on instead.<br />
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Art has been the meaning of life for me since I was a teenager, the thing that got me excited and inspired, the way I made sense of the world. I worked part time and neglected housework, etc, so that I had time to make art. But over the last year that has changed.<br />
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Maybe it's to do with getting older - I'm 53 - maybe it's because I strained my back a couple of times last year which put me out of action for a week each time, and moving gingerly ever since. But suddenly my physical health is a priority rather than something I take for granted. So walking at the beach and going to yoga come before making art. I have a strong feeling that I want to get outside - gardening or walking or whatever. When the monsoon arrived at the end of January and we had torrential rain for about ten days I was going stir crazy!!<br />
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I'm also curious to see what will happen if I don't fill my free time with the busywork of making cards or sewing birds for craft fairs, etc. It will open up a space and I'm interested to see what that might allow, what seed might grow there.<br />
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It's also lovely to live without the 'shoulds' - I mean the feeling that I should be blogging, should be posting to instagram, should be getting work ready for craft fairs....etc. I wonder if all those shoulds have strangled my artmaking.<br />
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I don't say any of this with any certainty, I might be back in another month with a completely different story!<br />
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I'm still doing some stuff, I signed up for <a href="https://www.willowing.org/product/life-book-2018/">Lifebook</a> again this year. It's a fun, no pressure way to include some art making in my life. Here's some of the pieces I've done so far.<br />
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I didn't do the xmas craft fair because I didn't have any new work to share and didn't feel good about taking all my old stuff. I didn't have anything to put in the Tactile Arts xmas show - little wonders. (Which is still on until December 10th)<br />
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It has been a bit scary wondering if I'll feel like making art again, wondering who am I if I don't paint??<br />
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Then inspiration turns up - my teenagers make me listen to a lot of music, and sometimes I get hooked on something - I've been watching a YouTube video of DMAs singing Cher's Believe a lot.... and decided I wanted to paint the singer.<br />
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I can't really explain why. He's just this little guy in a too big shirt, he looks like that naughty kid who sits at the back of the class causing trouble, and then he opens his mouth and sings so effortlessly. Maybe it's because I have sons and the contrast between how they look and what their potential might be...<br />
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I'm so happy to be painting, just following my nose to what I'm interested in, and not worrying about whether it's suitable for a craft fair or whatever. I'm a bit scared to share it here in case everything stops again.<br />
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The paintings don't particularly look like the singer, I think of them as 'singing man 1' and 'singing man 2' hopefully there will be more.<br />
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<br />Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-59750502964516587732017-10-17T08:40:00.000+09:302017-10-17T08:40:03.185+09:30The months are flyingHello blog friends, so now it's October. I haven't been posting because I'm not doing much artwork.<br />
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I had a go at Inktober - a daily challenge to do an ink drawing which can be pen and ink, marker, ballpoint, brush and ink, etc. I went into it knowing that I find markers hard to work with - the line is hard and you can't rub them out!! So I managed 7 or 8 days...here are a few of my efforts!<br />
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It's just a quick hello to let you know I'm still here, and I'll be back when I have some new paintings to share.Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-73529541438977693402017-08-22T12:38:00.001+09:302017-08-22T12:38:25.131+09:30A new routine and growing tomatoes in the tropics 2017Starting a new job puts a new slant on things. I'd say I'm getting used to a new routine, but it's a casual job and my shifts are different every week. I can start as early as 6.30 am, or finish as late as 9pm. It's a big change for me, and to be honest art making has been on the back burner for the last month or so - not only because of the new job, but also because of renovations still going on around the house that make it hard to sit quietly and create - I'm not complaining, the renovations desperately need doing!!!<br />
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It's a beautiful dry season, and I think I've had the best success with growing tomatoes this year.<br />
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Here are the seedlings I planted back in June. I planted 4 but in the end only one plant survived. Maybe because of the lack of competition, or maybe because I'm watering in the evening instead of the morning, it's done well, producing plenty of good sized tomatoes and still flowering and setting new fruit in spite of half the foliage browning off.<br />
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I only have a little veggie patch because of having to water all through the dry season, and it's limited by the time and energy I have to put into it (and some kind of ratio between how many plants have failed and how hopeful I am!!). Here's a shot of the thai basil in flower - I should snip those off but I love to see the flowers - a pineapple just starting, also parsley, basil seedlings and lemon grass.<br />
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So I don't know when I'll be back with new art to show you, I'm happy to accept the lull in creativity and spend some time in the garden or walking at the beach before the build up begins.<br />
Best wishes to you 😃😃😃Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-546642497167200412017-07-13T15:42:00.002+09:302017-07-13T15:42:53.504+09:30Index card artI'm taking part in the index card a day challenge, which runs through June and July. It's a really fun, low stress, flexible art booster! It's organised by Tammy at daisy yellow <a href="https://daisyyellowart.com/">blog</a>, and you can find out more about it there.<br />
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There are prompts and themes which you can follow, but I tend to ignore those. In fact one of the most exciting things about the challenge for me is discovering what I'm interested in making work about - which can be the basis for more in depth artworks eg paintings or linoprints.<br />
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Some of my cards have been based on photos from my holidays. Many have a garden theme. I've been watching an English gardening show on youtube called 'The big allotment challenge', and have been pausing it to draw some of the gardeners. My kids are laughing at me for making 'fan art'.<br />
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If all else fails I do a mandala or any kind of doodle so that there's a stepping stone to the next day where I might do something better! I must admit that I haven't made a card everyday, sometimes I get behind, and then have a catch up day and make 2 or 3. It's ok, it's a challenge where anything's allowed as long as you're making art! I've been posting my work on flickr and instagram (which I'm new to but enjoying @fernyhoughkate). You can search #indexcardart or #ICAD2017 to see what everybody's doing.<br />
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In my last blogpost I had a bit of a complain about job hunting, since then things suddenly turned around. I had a call back, and an interview, and have been offered a casual job, which is a big relief. After being in limbo for some months it will be great to get on with the next phase of life.Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-6214808088101785772017-06-25T14:36:00.000+09:302017-06-25T14:36:04.128+09:30Lifebook week 24 plus the joys of job huntingAt last I've got my art space organised and jumped back into lifebook. The week 24 lesson was with Julie Fei-Fan <a href="http://balzerdesigns.typepad.com/">Balzer</a>. I couldn't bear to put down in black and white the bad stuff, so I wrote down positive words about the great job I'm going to get soon! Then it was a matter of doodling to turn the letter shapes into flowers, leaves and butterflies. I worked in acrylics but probably would have done better with watercolour or gouache.<br />
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I have also jumped back into looking for work. I've discovered that job hunting in the 21st century is a whole new ball game. Most jobs are advertised and have to be applied for online, even jobs I've seen in shop windows still have to be applied for online. After that you get an automated email to say they got your application, and then you never hear from them again unless you're one of the lucky ones who's shortlisted for interview.<br />
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It's discouraging to apply for jobs everyday and not hear back anything. I was told about a company up here who advertised for a receptionist and had over 100 applicants, so competition is fierce! I'm lucky that I've had some bits of casual work - which is good for my morale - and might be a better way of advertising my skills than sending out my resume!<br />
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In the meantime I've been busy adding a few new cards to my etsy <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/katefernart">shop</a>, and getting ready for the next craft <a href="https://tactilearts.org.au/pages/craft-fairs">fair</a> which is at a new location this year - on the Esplanade in Darwin city, on Sun 9th July.Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-43526214349703388852017-06-14T13:06:00.001+09:302017-06-14T13:06:40.458+09:30Holiday sketchingLast time I went on holiday to England - about 8 years ago - I came back with 3 sketches. This time I was determined to do better, and I did, though I still didn't do a lot...<br />
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I made a tiny sketch pad with pink pages. It was light to carry and I didn't feel precious about it at all. I drew with a ballpoint pen and pulled out sketches and glued them in my journal.<br />
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I did this little sketch at the cafe at Saltaire, I took a couple of photos too, and then did this version back at my Mum's, using watercolour pencils and a little bit of watercolour wash.<br />
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I also did some drawings at Mum's of the views out of the window from different rooms. It's the house I grew up in so the views although slightly changed over the years, are so familiar to me. I really wanted to make a record of them this time.<br />
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This one I drew one evening while we were watching tv, and a blazing sunset was going on outside!<br />
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I wish I had made the time to do more, photos are wonderful, but a sketch is something different, it means I've really spent time looking, and putting down the elements that are important to me - quite an emotional thing.Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-67937411549310088212017-06-04T13:46:00.000+09:302017-06-04T13:47:32.540+09:30Back homeHello blog friends. I'm back from my holidays in England. I'm not the kind of person who looks forward to holidays!!! In fact I dread the long flights and being out of my routine. But once I was there I had a wonderful time. Here are a few photos to give you a taste.<br />
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Canal side walk at Saltaire.<br />
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Wonderful David Hockney exhibition at Saltaire.<br />
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Spring flowers in the rose garden at Gotts Park.<br />
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Beautiful gardens at Harlow Carr near Harrogate.<br />
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Amazing rainbow when we got off the bus one evening!</div>
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We did a lot of walking, talking and drinking tea, which is my idea of a perfect holiday! I did manage to do a tiny bit of sketching, and might post some of those next time.</div>
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While I was away my partner took the opportunity to paint the verandah which is also my studio. All my art stuff is packed up in boxes, and will be in chaos for a while as other bits of the house are being painted and the verandah will be a bit of a store room.... So it might take a while to get back into the full swing of painting. </div>
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I am doing the ICAD (index card a day) challenge through June and July. It's organised by Tammy at <a href="https://daisyyellowart.com/">daisy</a> yellow blog. I took part last year and it was great to do a little drawing, painting, something everyday, some of those little quick pieces were the basis for lino prints and cards that kept me busy for months afterwards, so I'm excited to see what will happen this time.</div>
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Here are my latest lifebook pieces. Week 13 with Annie <a href="http://www.anniehamman.com/">Hamman</a> was probably my favourite lesson so far. She talked a lot about working intuitively and letting the piece evolve, such as letting words or collage elements from the under layers to be seen and add to the story of the work. The techniques of blending the charcoal drawing with a wet brush, and activating watersoluble crayons with watered down acrylic meant that it fell somewhere between painting and drawing. For the longest time I've been wishing for a way for a way for painting to be more like drawing for me - more fluid I guess. Well this lesson turned on a little light bulb in my brain!!! It's definitely one I'll come back to.<br />
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Week 15 with Jodi <a href="https://sweetrepeats.blogspot.com.au/">Ohl</a> was a lesson about using lettering. I went off on my own tangent with a piece about looking after my back when I'm gardening - it has a bit of lettering, but not much.<br />
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I've just finished a second attempt at the class, following it a bit more closely. It feels a bit like a graffiti wall! It's a long way outside my comfort zone, and as a piece of art I prefer my first version, but I'm glad to have a go at something new.<br />
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I'm a few weeks behind on lifebook, but that's ok. When I signed up I thought if I get value out of half a dozen classes I'll be happy. Well, I've already done more than that, and we're only a third of the way through. Next month (next week!!!) I'll be going on holiday to England to see my mum, so I won't have time for Lifebook for a few weeks, that's ok, I can jump back in when I get back.<br />
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I'd like to send you over to my friend Nat's <a href="https://smallestforest.net/">blog</a>, she's in the same group exhibition as me and has written a couple of excellent posts about some of her gorgeous work that's on show.Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093121138166039829.post-54029800303029938692017-04-11T09:25:00.001+09:302017-04-11T09:25:54.338+09:30Gypsies vagabonds and wild mad womenI have work in a group show that opens on Thursday 5.30 at Tactile Arts - Gypsies vagabonds and wild mad women!!<br />
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One of the pieces I'm showing is a handmade concertina book of dancing girls. I think I blogged about this a couple of months ago, and it did take weeks and weeks to come together. I'm so pleased I got it finished in time! Here are a few photos.<br />
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The girls are painted in acrylics with collaged paper dresses a bit like paper dolls, the front cover is a lino cut. On the reverse are silhouettes of the girls cut from scrapbooking papers.<br />
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April has been a bit of a disaster health wise. At the start of the month I strained my back pulling out weeds in the garden, and had to spend a couple of days in bed. Every time I start to get better I tweak it again, so over a week later I'm back in bed again. I think I have to admit defeat and really rest properly....Kate Fernyhoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07358110119432203690noreply@blogger.com4