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Black Swans, Lake Dorothy, Mooroopna,

10/14/2010

This week’s paint out was at lake Dorothy. We had planned it for Monday and we postponed it every day until we got the perfect day for to be on location. Got to love, the company of the birdlife, that joined us today. There are eleven black swans on Lake Dorothy this season.

Reg is my hero, he paced the thermos with coffee and walks over with Indigo our poodle, to meet me at the lake and enjoy the lakeside experience.

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Paint Out Location.

10/07/2010

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This is the spot I plan to take my private are student to, next Tuesday afternoon for her first on location paint out. There is always bird life around. Usually Ibis, ducks, black swans, willy wagtails and magpies. I must remember to throw some broad rim hats into the paint out kit in case the magpies decide to swoop us. A little insect repellent, 'just in case', and I'll hunt up the thermos flask for afternoon tea for the workers.

With my student through her first 6 beginner lessons we can get stuck into some real painting now, not just training exercises. As the tutor, I get to demonstrate how and that means I will get to do some on location landscape studies again. That is one more aspect of my creative life placed back in my life :-). I am so happy about that.

I share most of my art related posts and will release for sale most of my on location painting studies, at my kathy-shell.net website, and 'A Creative Life', blog.

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Transition Day. I set my A B & C Priorities then Happily Chose to Do all the C Priorities because I Enjoyed Them the Most.

09/23/2010

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I started the day with a to do list, impossibly long so I decided I had best face it by setting A B and C priority ratings to it.
Now housework, given the state of my house looked far more urgent than creating a new vegetable garden given the locusts will probably get my vegetables this year anyhow, so I decided I would do the house.

First I thought I would do some blogging and I did play around in my blog design I even created a new blog I defiantly called, 'Painting Australia'. Yes that is the carer restricted from doing the amount of painting she wants to do rebelling. I thought if I name a blog, what I want to do...it will happen.

Then I found I did not want to actually write any other blogs. I want to write the novel. I am craving to write the novel. I don't plan to begin writing the novel until November 1st. I have given everyone I know months of advance warning that I will be writing a novel from that date so I figure if I wait until that date I will be able to get away with murder in the act of writing that novel because everyone has had prior warning.

After giving up on blog writing and housework because it wasn't happening, I washed the car and caravan, watered the new vegetable planting and my flowering orchids.

I packed out the car for an on site painting trip, inspired by the 'painting Australia', blog. then I went into the painting studio to prepare for my next studio painting session and clean and condition my brushes.

I did some more health and nutrition reading and based on that I chose salmon for our meal tonight, cooking chili salmon vegetables and rice served with a white wine. It was delicious.

Now I am planning the on location paint out., it is beautiful spring weather, just PERFECT for the landscape painter and it will bring an enthusiastic life back to my blog writing, doing what I love.

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Midweek Blues in the garden and My Art.

09/15/2010

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I have blue wisteria, delphiniums, iris and larkspur spires emerge in springtime, between the roses.

This picture of the flower painting is from a 3’ x 4’ original oil I painted, 22 years ago I called Late October Blooms. I won a professional art award with it and it is valuable but it is a work that was so special to me, I could not sell it, I gave it to my youngest daughter. The colour the flowers, the time in my life.t has too many memories associated with it to leave our family. Artists are too sentimental to be realistic with money and sell works that they love.

I love doing out in my garden. The bending and stretching involved in weeding, the weight workouts when I clear nearby country road storm water drains of debris then carry the leaves and small branches back to my garden to form organic mulch and the extra muscle workouts I give myself by doing squats and stretches when I am holding the hose watering my vegetables, makes my garden a perfect home gym.