Join a small group to refresh you art practice or enjoy laying some foundations as a beginner in art. This is a six week course, introducing ways of seeing, and introducing foundations in drawing, composition, colour and texture.  For those who wish to develop their creative ability or build their art  experience further. Work at your own level of experience.
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For our first class we took a walk around the colourful town of  Mullumbimby, to take photos and collect found objects for drawing. We had great fun exploring, finding new viewpoints for a subject, and building a base of research material for future paintings.

Today I tidied and cleaned the studio. Taking a moment to appreciate this light-filled space and the inspiring ever-changing views.

It was a treat to be a part of this amazing event at Lennox Head Community Centre. A day to celebrate the beauty of girls, there were discussion forums on the use of social media, singing and expression workshops, makeup and hair and face painting tents, a healing tent for parents and girls, perfumed body creams to make, yummy food from the Belle General, and the beading table, shown above. Beading is not just for girls! The girls and boys had so much fun designing and stringing their beads to make bracelets and necklaces.

I downloaded the brushes app after visiting the David Hockney exhibition in Melbourne. He is 79 years old and totally enjoying and applying new technology to his repetoire, inspiring! Here are my first baby steps on iPad.

Eight of us enjoyed five days on North Stradbroke Island to write and edit for the website: www.joyofageing.com
Early morning sunrises and exercises, walking, sharing cooking and delicious meals, buying fresh fish from the fishermen who had caught the fish that morning, sitting at the large table writing, discussing, editing, it was amazing to feel how together and harmonious we were. It was marvellous! Thank you all.

Here are the first drawings from our introductory exercise on perspective. I love how everyone makes the exercise their own, industrial, european, moody skies and pedestrians and cars added to a basic framework.

Today we learned more about the flexibility and scope of watercolours. Using apples and capsicums as our chosen objects we looked at how to observe light and shadows, how to build colours from light to dark using layers, and how different mediums will dictate the look and quality of the finished drawing. We used watercolours for the first drawing, then watercolour pencils for the second drawing. Love the vibrancy of these interpretations!

Have you ever noticed how babies and children are so connected to their bodies, how they love to explore their surroundings,how they play with whatever is at hand? It feels as if they are completely at one with themselves and with everything, connected in a way that we often lose sight of as adults.
"We Live in an ocean of energy" (Serge Benhayon, An Open Letter to Humanity, p512)
While out walking this morning along our country lane, I felt connected to the all, my body light and aware of the birds in the trees, the rain falling softly and then stopping, the sky patches of brilliant cerulean and grey clouds floating overhead. Observing my surroundings and feeling the space between the trees I had a sense of the limitless space beyond my field of vision. We are a part of the grand whole, a spark of light or energy in a particular place, suburb, town, which can be felt to be pockets of larger spheres called country or continent, which in turn make up the planet, which is part of the solar system, and it part of the universal spheres of our universe.
Wonderment
Wonderment is a lovely approach to hold as an artist. It allows us to appreciate whatever is in front of us and around us without judgement, it allows us to respond to our surroundings in a playful and joyful way, deepening our connection to ourselves, to nature, to the oneness of the all.