Two weeks ago I showed you all how to create a beautiful mandala painting using watercolours and masking fluid. This week I am using that mandala painting as an engaging background for a new aerial silks portrait. This portrait was commissioned by the awesome boss lady behind Aerial Yoga Girl to use as cover art for a book. It was such a thrill for me to be creating a pice to be used as a book cover!

Two weeks ago I showed you all how to create a beautiful mandala painting using watercolours and masking fluid. This week I am using that mandala painting as an engaging background for a new aerial silks portrait. This portrait was commissioned by the awesome boss lady behind Aerial Yoga Girl to use as cover art for a book. It was such a thrill for me to be creating a pice to be used as a book cover!

If you are anything like me, you will be in a mad rush to find the perfect Christmas gifts for all your loved ones. You know, the ones that are magically thoughtful and fit them perfectly all at the same time. Even though there are several weeks to go I always find that time quickly gets away from me. So this week’s post is about what I can do to make your Chrissy shopping a little easier. I have the perfect gifts for lots of different types of creative movers available just in time for the Holidays.

I was commissioned to create a painting to be used as a book cover. The brief was to paint a portrait of a figure in the splits on silks with a mandala background. In this post I will describe the step by step process I used to create this beautiful mandala to be used for the commission. I will teach you how you too can create your own mandala painting.

This week I am talking about the third and final piece in my Masculine Nudes mini collection. This is a seated male nude mixed media artwork called ‘Knee’. After reading about ‘Back’ and ‘Front’ in the previous two weeks I hope you love this mini collection in purple and turquoise as much as I do.

Last week I talked about ‘Back’ the first piece in my Masculine Nudes mini collection showing the back and shoulders of a male nude torso. So this week I will be sharing the process behind ‘Front’. ‘Front’ is a watercolour and charcoal mixed media artwork showing a male nude chest from the waist up.

The first piece in my Masculine Nudes mini collection is called ‘Back’. It is so named because it shows a nude male torso from the posterior aspect. This piece has well developed musculature which provides high light and shadow contrast. I think this is my favourite piece in the collection and I hope you like it too!

I am super excited to launch my brand new mini collection of male nude torso mixed media artworks. Most of my artwork is focused on the beauty of the feminine. Male nudes are just as stunning as the females and I wanted that to show in this trio collection Masculine Nudes.

This year was my first time exhibiting in Adelaide during the SALA festival. SALA is the South Australian Living Artists festival and I have often visited exhibitions as part of the festival over the years, but this is the first year I have taken part. I had several pieces in group exhibitions and in addition had my first solo exhibition to launch my Elemental Yogi collection. This blog post is about my impressions of taking part in the SALA festival and what I learned from the experience.