Kym@ART :) "From Within"

Travels with my Paintbrush - My Journey to McGregor.

McGregor Here We Come....

Enrolment paid up and I'm very keen to go through the Materials list to organise all the requirements for next year.

Very exciting on Monday when the paperwork turned up from McGregor Summer School.

Artist & friend Jenelle Wood is coming too. A goal we planned for 2010,

has come early after I won the Brigalow Art Scholarship supported by Anglo Coal.

Hoping to make it a yearly event - Summer or Winter :)

I have chosen to do Acrylics & Mixed Media with Catherine Parker

http://www.usq.edu.au/mcgregor/summer/classes/visarts/parkec.htm

I first seen Catherine's work as a Flying Arts Tutor in 2006

Jenelle has chosen Pastels with Sue Oakley

http://www.usq.edu.au/mcgregor/summer/classes/visarts/oakleyk.htm

McGregor Summer School (Toowoomba campus): 7 - 17 January
McGregor Schools USQ
Artsworx, University of Southern Queensland
http://www.usq.edu.au/mcgregor

"Travels with my Paintbrush"

Acrylics and Mixed Media Tutor in Residence
Catherine Parker, Toowoomba http://www.catherineparker.com.au/

Catherine Parker has a B.Ed in Visual Arts from the University of Melbourne. A keen traveller, Catherine’s paintings are largely narrative and rich in colour influenced by her many journeys including ongoing travels to India, the Himalayas and Central Australia. Catherine is a passionate workshop facilitator and has conducted workshops for Flying Arts Inc, Queensland Art Gallery, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Murray’s Art and Framing in Toowoomba as well as McGregor Schools. Catherine is represented in private and national collections.

Course synopsis
Journey with your brush! Using acrylic paints and a range of exciting mixed media participants have the opportunity to explore and examine a range of process and materials from painting, drawing and simple printmaking to found objects. Canvas, paper, wood, plastic, collage, ink, pastel, pens are just some of the materials participants will experiment with. This workshop is largely explorative in nature yet allows for conceptual development with participants taking home a variety of skill and processes. This is suitable for those who wish to take risks, experiment and explore.

What Colour do you need????

You Need Some Orange in Your Life

Orange will make you feel open, lively, and artistic. And with a little orange, you will project an aura of friendliness. If you want bolder experiences, you've got to get a little orange in your life! For extra punch: Combine orange with red or yellow The downside of orange: It's too powerful and unusual for some people to deal with The consequences of more orange in your life: You will become more creative in almost every aspect of your life You will find humor in the most serious and dismal situations You will feel like life is exciting, even when you're doing ordinary things

What Color Do You Need?

What A Week!!!!!!

What a week, I really wanted to journal this week of great things.

Time moves very quickly and to just enjoy the moments of greatness and how truly wonderful the experiences have been.

• Meeting Carly and to enjoy hearing about her journey with her photographic exhibition.
• Meeting Sharon Muir and understanding her love for Colour over 2 days at a workshop with a great bunch of ladies.
• Brigalow just blew me away with being presented with the Art Scholarship of $1000 & encouragement for Emerging Artist . To enjoy the night with friends & artists from BAVA was wonderful. Thankyou to you all for your support & kind words. I really appreciate your emails & phone calls to congratulate me. Looking forward to enjoying the award.
• Then to have my nephew born & to be there to support my sister after concerns & 10 days of check ups .
• To have the storm come through and leave the tree down in it's travels, so pleased the house didn't get damaged.
• Friday is another day - I need photo's from my Mum & Dad who have just come home after travelling around in WA. The children & I travelled to Rocky to pick them up -I'll post them next week.

• I've been winding down the last two days, the kids & I are chilling out at home, our home has been neglected over the last 2 weeks- so it was great to get in and do some spring cleaning. Ready for a new week. Bring it on! Where did October go.......

Digital Colour Entry for Brigalow ~ RED Theme

"ye Olde Red Wagon Wheel @ Greycliffe"

Digital Black & White Entry for Brigalow ~ ACTION Theme

Action @ The Drags.

Emerging Artist Section ~ "Flower Frenzy"

High Commended.

"From Within" Section 1 (Mixed Media Artwork) Sharon & I.

Tree down in Wild Storm @ Home.

Thursday evening's storm came up pretty fast, and so did the wind.

it took out our Karajon (not sure of spelling) the tree has been here for 20 years.

It came down in front of the house & scared the s#^% out of all us at home here.

If you can see the palm tree in the photo, it actually broke the top part of the tree off, so it saved the house for being damaged. It was unreal. Even the rain came down in such a strange way.

The good from this, was that we got rain and the creek behind our home is running & the grass around our home is so green. (Photo's taken Friday morning.)

Guess what we will be doing on Monday after Greg has finished his weekend of day shift!!

Baby Boy ~ My Nephew

Welcome with love ~ Eran Thomas Ross.
Born ~ Wednesday, 15th October 2008

This photo is of Eran (above), only 2 minutes old. His long awaited arrival over 10 days, there was concerns for this little man but he just wanted to come into the world in his own time.
I got to be there at the birth of this little man, pretty amazing. Makes him so special.
My sister Kylie & Partner Tom are over the moon, a little brother for Evie (3 years old)

Big sister Evie having a nurse of her little brother :)

Eran & I relaxing with Evie on the camera. So tiny & beautiful.

Brigalow Art Festival 2008

What a great night, gee! it had a few surprises in store also.

BAVA Girls together for a photo.

L-R Michele, Olley, Maria, Myself, Jenelle & Gwen.

Michele Briggs & I with Section 2 -

Portrait ~ BAVA Mama by Michele Lyons(Briggs).

Do you know who the portrait is???

President John Rathjen welcoming everyone to the Opening Night with Secretary Dorothy Rideout supporting to night.

Jenelle won the first auction piece & pretty happy about it also.

Photographic piece by Phil Casey.

Presentation of The Anglo Coal Scholarship.

Michele Briggs presented with Highly Commended for her piece "BAVA Mama" from Anglo Coal. Well Michele :)

Receiving the winning award for the Anglo Coal Scholarship.

Very surprised & overwhelmed.

Maria & I presented with Highly Commended Awards for our artwork in the Emerging Artist Section. Well Done Maria :)

Sharon Muir (Judge) & I with my artwork "From Within"

Hugs for Sharon, she was so happy for everyone on the night and did such a great job with her presentation of winners. Sharon went on to do a reflection of her choice of winners & gave support and encouragement for other works that she saw had talents to improve.

Sharon Muir, Auda McLean~ Portrait Winner & I with the Pastel portrait behind us.

"Pause in the Game", beautiful work with pastel. Congratulations Auda.

"COLOUR" Workshop with Flying Art Tutor Sharon Muir.

Sharon is a professional practicing artist with two decades of experience in the visual arts. As an art educator she has worked in a range of educational institutions, facilitated numerous community art projects and is currently part of the Flying Arts team, touring outback QLD and NSW. She works as a freelance workshop tutor, traveling throughout Australia, teaching a spectrum of subjects and skills. She is based in Mullumbimby in northern NSW and regularly
exhibits her work in solo and nationally selected contemporary art shows, with her most recent series of artworks exhibited in a solo show “Feathers, Fish, Fur and Flowers” at Grafton Regional Art Gallery.

At the workshop we developed confidence with using colour by learning how to mix the colour you wanted every time, using the double primary mixing system. The colour wheel and the most commonly used colour schemes will be gradually introduced, with the aim of developing a strong foundation in the understanding and use of colour. Experience was gained through practical hands on sessions using coloured paper and paint. This workshop was coordinated with the Brigalow Arts Festival here in Biloela this week.

Topics covered during the workshop:
• Introduction to the colour bias wheel
• Gouache, how to mix and apply colour
• Values/monochromatic colour scheme
• Mixing tints/tones and shades
• Colour matching
• Value exercises
• Introduction to complementary colour scheme
• Mixing complementary pairs
• Introduction to analogous/split complementary colour schemes
• Mixing exercises using these schemes

Carly Burnham - Photographic Artist Exhibition

Congratulations Carly ~ Inspirational & Moving Photographic Showcase.
Artist & Friend Karen Gaskell, Myself & Carly Burnham enjoying the night together with other friends & family. The exhibition now goes to Brisbane to support Mental Health Week.

A Mental Picture
In conjunction with Mental Health Week,Carly Burnham presents a photographic exhibition in black & white and all shades of grey...sharing the spirit of those touched by mental illness, Friday, October 10, 2008

@ ‘Kristine’s Coffee Shop’Kariboe Street, Biloela

bonniedoone6@bigpond.com
Sponsored by CQ Rural Division of General Practice Queensland RADFAll profits donated to the Schizophrenia Research Institute

A Mental Picture
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/content/2008/s2368224.htm
By Robin McConchie from Bundaberg Central , QLDThursday, 18/09/2008

"A Mental Picture" is the title of a collection of works by photographer Carly Burnham.
I met Carly at the Blueprint for the Bush, Rural Women's Forum, held in Roma recently.The theme of the forum was " Liveability - A woman's perspective", and from Carly's perspective, she wants to make the bush a more liveable place for people with mental illness.Carly lives in Monto on a cattle property.
She has lived closely with schizophrenia and is inspired by the resilience of so many people affected by mental illness.Through her photography, Carly wants to de-stigmatize and re-brand mental illness.I found her photos profoundly touching. Every photo has a story.The black and white medium is extremely evocative.
Twenty shades of grey, from white to pure black, make you really think about the subject matter, the mood and the story. The composition of the portraits is superb, and the energy and the hope of the children seem to imply freedom even in a dark world.Carly's subjects are affected by a range of mental disorders: schizophrenia, 1 in 100 suffer from delusions, hallucinations and paranoia associated with this condition. But Carly says with medication, people can lead a normal life following episodes.Other disorders include bipolar, general anxiety disorder, post-natal depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and depression. Carly says with support, understanding and treatment, mental illness can be managed.

What A Great Workshop with Jenni Kelly !!!!!

26th ~ 28th September, 2008

"Funastic Acrylics"

Great group of ladies to spend 3 days with. Jenni, our tutor-LHS (orange shirt)

Enjoying Wine & Nibblies one afternoon together.

Funastic Acrylics ~ This workshop was fantastic with Jenni Kelly who introduced fellow artists to some very creative ideas with acrylics. We learnt to scrape, spray, fling,throw, roll and glaze PAINT, in other words "PLAY WITH ACRYLICS”, and leave the workshop with a greater understanding of acrylics and a new found confidence. The work was very impressionistic to abstract - Fun and Exciting.

My 1st workshop piece ~ (unfinished in the photo) abstract background with the sunflowers put in with a palette knife. I will post a photo later. Really enjoyed this piece :)


2nd piece - "Water Lillies" photo is unfinished, I will post the fineished artwork photo later.

My 3rd piece - "Poppies" (not sure why I went with the purple, it's unfinished)

Week Away as Camp Parent ....

The week away was wonderful with whales just off Hervey Bay, dolphins & turtles all over the place. I got to feed "Greg the Groper" at Reefworld in Hervey Bay, one huge fish.

When we saw the whales in Hervey Bay, there was about 7 pods & there was 3 babies in those groups. Huge days & packed with lots of adventures for everyone. Went out in a glass bottom boat & had lunch on a island off Hervey Bay.
Went to Bundaberg and cruised down the Burnett River on the Ruby Belle...lots of history there.

Then went to the Bundy Ginger Beer Barrel. The ladies there were really friendly and the taste testing was really good too. (There are lots of different flavours). Lots of interactive resources for the kids to have a history lesson at the same time have fun. Game of Ten Pin bowling, I fell over playing (flat on my back) & got a strike at the same time. No one gave me CPR -just laughed at me.

Friday we were at Lady Musgrave Island,this place was excellent.
Just beautiful... So blue....blue....blue the colour and the weather was awesome.
Kids were great, I really enjoyed the sites & experiencing it all with my daughter Monique :)