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.