studio clean out………..

[gallery] haven’t written here for quite a few days, have been really busy cleaning and sorting my studio, lately i haven’t been able to ground myself and have been all over the place , so a couple of days ago i made a list and that gave me a clearer direction

# 1 clean up , organize, and make definite work area’s in studio ( photo’s are proir clean up)

# 2 work areas – a desk for paperwork,writing, journal and research

#3 file all tid bits and ideas scrawled on bits of paper (100’s)

#4 an area for encaustic,an area for printmaking,a clean paper area, a table for making my own paper, containers to store all collected material for papermaking, a corner for my easle with all my paints, thinners etc..       so far so good………tomorrow i will continue sorting paper work,sketch books etc……….

my fresh new goals as of next week- begin making more handmade paper, print my collagraphs, lino’s ,monoprints etc…continue with encaustic with handmade paper……a little directions feels much better, instead of going from one thing to the next……………once i get back on a roll as i usually am , i am going to learn how to make artists books with my work on my paper, have joined a group called “artists books 3.0″ a wonderful website full of wonderful talented people,worth looking at,anyway all sounds good in theory, i’ll see how it goes with the 2 teenagers,1 three year old, a partner, a garden, dogs, ducks,chickens,ferrets(& their babies), errands,cooking, cleaning,friends and xmas just around the corner…

purple……….

we sat for ages collecting these awesome purple shells today at the beach, well part of a shell..love the colour………

where the ocean meets the land…………….

found myself needing to be near the ocean today, i find at times when all seems just too much and mind goes onto overload, the coast is the answer, it clears my mind and rejuvinates me, thoughts on today………

overcast,cool,water grey, noone around, just me, my 3 year old and the edge of our eastern coastline facing that mysterious pacific……….i love the beaches that don’t have flags, hardly any sand, pebbles small and large, rockpools, no previous footprints, places to explore, somewhere to sit with a coffee (red wine would have been, but i had to drive) and think about everything and nothing, things we found or noticed today – the lack of people- funny how the magority of people don’t find the beach as appealing when it isn’t a scorching hot australian day, smooth tumbled glass- all colours, brown, green,blue, clear, i like to get away from towns for that glass as i have found beaches closer to large populations have more brown glass and further down the coast there is more green and blue, i remember reading somewhere that it is called ‘mermaids tears’..driftwood,mmmmm would like to make some chairs out of it..one day i will…shells, smooth rocks, awesome rock formations,love them for designs for future works..fossils….pelicans,it’s been a good day,

that invisible feeling………….

        strange day today, i suppose it has been slowly creeping up on me for a few weeks, just that feeling with a family when the balance isn’t right, and as a mother you go through the motions and there is always so much to be done and not enough me time (studio time) how dinner miraculously appears at the table, dishes done, washing, cleaning,shopping running around, everybody wants a part of you, then they all wander off happily to do their own thing, and you are left feeling ,well im not sure of the word to describe it, this post sounds terrible, anyway tomorrow i’ll probably feel better, i suppose the word is melancholy, we all get it at some time or an other……….anyway enough of that did manage a little time in my place of sainty (studio) played with some more monoprint and encaustic,i lke this technique feel as though it could pushed further, maybe tomorrow……….