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Finally started to turn some of my life drawing into paintings... I feel a series coming on... will find out in the process what they're actually about... but, at the moment, I believe they'll be about exploring feminine power. #nudes #lifedrawing #anartistslifeforme https://www.instagram.com/p/CbLfUzvBtRB/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Getting more playful at life drawing... another cracking night @oakhillgallery . People are starting to think I have a feet fetish... I just love drawing them... and hands! https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca7-UiXBhEv/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Always nice when the model lights up at the offer... would you like to keep it? Last night of life drawing for the year... thank you to the organisers and ask the models @oakhillgallery ! Love doing one minute sketched (at Oak Hill Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXiePquBVYR/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Yesterday... got started on one of my favourite views... Oliver's Hill in Frankston. Underpainting! https://www.instagram.com/p/CWEgcZrBwqG/?utm_medium=tumblr

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So was intending to be doing proper painting at tonight's social painting... and then (after my watercolour became overworked) this little pixie decided she was my work instead. Go figure. https://www.instagram.com/p/CVST3rBhViN/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Progress on skyholes on acrylics today in class #artclassesonzoom @peninsulaarts ... and a lot of fun talking nonsense too... not so much a step by step approach as a permission to make stuff up as you go along demo. I have very lovely and very tolerant students who manage to make me believe that this is the service they actually want - score!!! I mean - thanks guys!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/CU6REFWhHTC/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Progress on mi pompoms! Social painting on zoom keeping us sane! 😋 https://www.instagram.com/p/CUKYoEPhg87/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Been meaning to edit this girl for years... finally have done! "Alone at the Party" rides again... all about social anxiety (and maybe maladaptive drinking to go with it) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSvPNRBh2UG/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Social painting tonight... couldn't leave it alone... and did indeed gild some lilies... Hope it brings some cheer to anyone needing a bit of that! https://www.instagram.com/p/CSMSUJUHZ5C/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Oo excited... posted about this a wee while ago and all of a sudden it seems to be here!! These are my contributions to this joint exhibition in South Melbourne's Ryazanoff Gallery with some very talented fellow artists - if you're interested in any of them please contact Anita on +61467035144... will be sharing some of the other artist's works soon too as am very honoured to be included and well worth sharing. The exhibition will be hung by this weekend and the official opening is next Saturday afternoon (2-4:30, Saturday 14th August 2021) #artforsale #melbourneartists #morningtonpeninsulaartists @ryazanoff_gallery @jennycroomart @rozottoart @lornagerard @davies.rhondaart @nemirovskya @nic_kirkman @carolefosterart @wandercreations @anitaf.josefsson @teaercolesart https://www.instagram.com/p/CSK6sldBeDR/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Tonight at social painting... there was this one! Loosening up... mostly. https://www.instagram.com/p/CR6OFNHDGVC/?utm_medium=tumblr

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So... these have been falling out of my pencils lately... odd even for my moody birds... wonder what adventures they want to go on / what they have to teach...? https://www.instagram.com/p/CQvtBQ4D18B/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Very excited to say this is happening soon @ryazanoff_gallery (in August) and am included with this incredible group of fellow artists @jennycroomart @wandercreations @carolefosterart @anitaf.josefsson @davies.rhondaart @teaercolesart @nic_kirkman @rozottoart @lornagerard @nemirovskya https://www.instagram.com/p/CQvsUFMjSFL/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Last Thursday zoom class for the term... they let me play... and I let them play... i swear every lesson feels as freeing and as fun as a no uniform day ... yippee!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/CQfE1pmDPF1/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Today's play date with the paints... apparently she's finished... looks like she might have been finished half an hour earlier... still... she's a pretty happy piece! https://www.instagram.com/p/CQcvH30D8K6/?utm_medium=tumblr

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My play date with my paints this morning... and a bit of charcoal... apparently... it's finished now. https://www.instagram.com/p/CQcuqBnDky2/?utm_medium=tumblr

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So... all these acrylic paintings are now oil paintings... could we invent a hash tag along the lines of: "when in doubt slap on another layer"? Pretending this selfish painting session gave students a new/forgiving way to work over the top of paintings that were to tight or otherwise annoying... when I doubt - glaze ! #zoomartclasses @peninsulaarts https://www.instagram.com/p/CQH81IwjHqx/?utm_medium=tumblr