Day light robbery

Today at Salamanca Market was a mixed bag, weather-wise and event wise. A sudden downpour of rain damaged three frames and caused chaos for me to trying to secure and quickly move things undercover. Then I had a visit from the police, a shoplifter had been reported, and she had items from several stall holders, including two PJ Paintings prints. I didn’t know or see her take anything. Later in the day two more prints were stolen. They weren’t returned. It’s near impossible to be doing credit card transactions, bagging or wrapping frames, and watching hands handling prints. The spirit of giving is unanimous with Christmas but I suppose that it also gives rise to the spirit of stealing. It’s disappointing because as a stall holder you want to be able relax, enjoy meeting and conversing with people. I like giving eye contact, not having to watch what people behind the ones you’re serving, are doing.

Has anyone else had artwork stolen? How did you feel about it?

I sold some “Tassie Christmas” greeting cards to a couple visiting from Germany.

Tassie Christmas

A “Bunk beds” and “Afternoon Siesta” print is being posted to two little Australian girls living in the UK.

Bunk Beds

The original “Christmas Siesta” painting was purchased and will be journeying to California, USA.

Christmas Siesta

Her friend bought two prints that are also U.S. bound, “Hanging Out” and “Spiky bunk beds.”

Hanging Out

Two young ladies from Germany, living and studying at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, bought a “Bunk beds” print. A young couple visiting from Melbourne bought “Hair Accessories” and “The Bun”. A framed “The Bun” had sold earlier in the day too.

A lady from Bendigo bought my small original painting of a Galah. It is going to hang in her toilet room beside a picture of nasturtiums, I was told.

Galah

A three year old boy is going to receive a small framed “Family Outing” for his birthday. She was going to buy him a T-shirt but when she saw the framed print, she changed her mind.

Family Outing IV

I didn’t quite escape a late burst of rain with a short peppering of hail at the end of the day when I was half way through packing up. I was glad to get home, have a cup of tea with my feet up after bringing everything in and hanging things to dry in various places all around the inside of the house.

The most popular prints today were the wombats from the Sleepy head series.

A thought to ponder: “Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions”. Alfred Hitchcock

Wishing you an awesome and creative upcoming week,
from Pj Paintings, stall #30 at Salamanca Market, Tasmania
P.S. Tote bags & pouches are available at www.pjpaintings.com

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Coffee Table Feature

A miniature one of these would be cool to have on a coffee table. This art producing machine is wind generated.

Windmill at MONA (Museum of Old & New Art) in Tasmania

The windmill turns , which in turn, turns some wheels, which in turn moves the Artline pen in a circular motion and turns the turntable which moves the paper very slowly along.

Wind powered drawing at MONA (Museum of Old & New Art) in Tasmania

The windier the day the darker and denser the drawing is. A pen a day is used and the roll of paper lasts two weeks before the piece of art is finished.

Pen at Work

It is quite mesmerizing and relaxing to watch, which is why I think it would be a great coffee table feature, and not to mention, a conversation starter.

Thank for stopping by. Keep your pens moving and producing art. 🙂

Salamanca Market Nov 23, 2019

It was blue and sunny skies for today’s market. An expectant mother, from Orange, NSW, bought an A-3 sized print of “Afternoon Siesta” for the baby’s room.  A young lady, originally from Wisconsin, USA, doing a university degree in Colorado, currently visiting family in Singapore bought nine greeting cards to send back to family and friends in the US and Singapore.

An older lady, who lives in Snug, Tasmania, and her daughter, visiting from Zurich, Switzerland, purchased “Who, Who, Who are You? II”. Another local Tasmanian, bought for her friend’s eight and ten year old sons, a “Devilish Siesta” and “Spiky Bunk Beds” print. Her friend, who is teaching at the University of Tasmania, is now going to be teaching at a university in Nova Scotia, Canada.  That’s a big move.

https://pjpaintings.com/collections/wombats/products/devilish-siesta-a-tasmanian-devil-in-a-hammock-1

Two visitors from Taiwan bought an original painting of a kangaroo for their mother. An original platypus and a husky wombat painting also went today, along with a lot of tote bags, pouches and greeting cards.

Original Kangaroo painting

The most popular prints today were the wombats from the Sleepy head series.

A thought to ponder: “Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way”, Albert Einstein

Wishing you an awesome and creative upcoming week,

from Pj Paintings, stall #30 at Salamanca Market, Tasmania

P.S. Tote bags & pouches are available at http://www.pjpaintings.com

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Style conscientious emus:

 

I hope it has put a smile on your face. Thanks for visiting PJ Paintings.

Salamanca Market Nov 16, 2019

The wind made it challenging at the markets, today. A young lady introduced herself to me as the daughter of the lady who commissioned “Joyride” to give as a surprise for her husband’s birthday. She told me that her parents love the painting and it is hanging up in their kitchen. She bought a “Joyride” print.

Joyride!

Then another lady introduced herself to me, that she had bought the original painting titled “The Bun” (I was able to introduce both to each other – original PJ Painting owners). Apparently, everybody that visits her house comment about it when they come in, as it is in direct view hanging above the fireplace. She has a collection of sea urchins underneath it. Her friend from Georgia, USA, who was accompanying her, bought a “The Bun” greeting card and a wombat print.

“The Bun” greeting card

An Aussie, who is living in Calgary, Canada (for 32 years now) bought some greeting cards. She met her husband in Australia. He worked on oil rigs. Her daughter is now living in Sydney and she thinks the call of Australia is calling her son too.

A Swedish couple bought “Hanging Out” and a Great Aunt from the UK, bought her two week old great-nephew, Theodore, a “Christmas Siesta” print.

Hanging Out

This wombat has given its hammock a rather Christmas festive appeal. Prints of my original painting are available at: https://pjpaintings.com/collections/christmas/products/christmas-christmas-siesta

 

A lady, from Zimbabwe, who visited the stall a few times during the day, bought some greeting cards and A-5 sized prints.

The most popular prints today were the wombats from the Sleepy head series.

 

A thought to ponder: “I shut my eyes in order to see”, Paul Gauguin

 

Wishing you an awesome and creative upcoming week,

from Pj Paintings, stall #30 at Salamanca Market, Tasmania

P.S. Tote bags & pouches are available at http://www.pjpaintings.com

Morning Sketch

I spent about an hour and forty minutes drawing and painting this outside today. Usually I draw outside and paint inside. This is the historic fire station on Argyle Street in Hobart, Tasmania.

Hobart Fire Brigade

My thoughts are with those in New South Wales and Queensland where bush fires are raging. Three lives and over 150 homes have been lost. I hope the wind changes direction to stop the fires in their track and that good soaking rain falls upon the scorched and blistering dry land. Take care, everybody.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope that the upcoming week is kind to you.

Cheers, PJ Paintings

 

Salamanca Market Nov 9, 2019

The highlight of today was selling one of my sister’s quirky peacock original art pieces.

Nadine Richoux Art (my sister’s art)

I met a couple caravanning with their 14 month old daughter named Bindi. They said that she’s been really good despite the temperatures the last week being rather cool. I kept my fingerless gloves on all day today! They bought a “Sea Life” print for Bindi’s bedroom in Melbourne.

Sea Life

A “Meet Me at the Gate” and “Double Date” is going to Jamaica and the UK.

 

A couple, visiting from Adelaide, bought about a dozen cards. She said that she put aside $5 notes all year to save for their trip to Tasmania.

A couple from Pilbara, Western Australia (WA) bought a “White Faced Scops Owls” for their daughter living in Perth, WA.

White Faced Scops Owls

A young lady, who’s been in Tassie for five months, leaving today to go back to Ohio, USA, bought an A-5 sized “Salamanca Market” print.

Salamanca Saturdays

“Lazy Days” and “Hair Accessories” tote bags made their debut today and they went as quick as I could hang them up.

 

The most popular prints today was “Spiky Bunk Beds”.

A thought to ponder: “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art”, Leonardo da Vinci

Wishing you an awesome and creative upcoming week,
from Pj Paintings, stall #30 at Salamanca Market, Tasmania
P.S. Tote bags & pouches are available at www.pjpaintings.com

Sold

I did gallery duty today and after doing all the gallery-type jobs, I settled down to paint in between serving customers. I thought I would paint a matching pair for this painting that I painted for the Inktober prompt word “frail”. I wanted to paint one with a different coloured butterfly and looking the opposite direction so that they could be looking at each other .

Unexpected Guest

While I was painting the blue butterfly painting, a man bought it. He’s going to give it to his mother, who loves butterflies, for Christmas.

The emu with the orange butterfly was also sold and it is going to be hanging in a Aged Care Residential Centre.

Wishing everybody a peaceful and rejuvenating weekend. Cheers, from PjPaintings

Before & After shot

The Inktober Challenge for 2019, involving drawing a picture with some form of ink each day of the month of October from a prompt list provided, produced a variety of artwork. Here are some before and after shots of some of the drawings I did for the challenge.

Fragile

Fragile

For the prompt word was ‘husky’ I drew a “Husky Wombat”

Husky Wombat 

For the prompt word ‘overgrown’ I drew an emu who has outgrown his bed!

Out grown

For the prompt word ‘dark’ I drew a touching moment between an emu and a twinkling star

Dark

Which do you prefer, before or after paint is added?

Thanks for stopping by.

PJ Paintings/Patricia Hopwood-Wade

 

 

Salamanca Market Nov 2, 2019

Rain is a good thing, and we needed it, but it would be nice if there was a rule that it wasn’t allowed to rain on Saturdays. It rained while setting up, stopped  and then rained when taking down.

I had a family from Chile visit and they chose three prints to take back to South America with them: “Beachside Chatter”, “Who Says Emus Can’t Fly?!” and “Glamour Girls I”.

An older man, from New Zealand, stopped in for a browse. I thought that his belt buckle looked like First Nations People’s art work and it was. He bought it 36 years ago in USA when he was doing a motor bike ride from Los Angeles to the Grand Canyon on a Triumph, hence, he bought “Bonnie & Me!”.

Bonnie & Me!

An older couple from Nevada, USA, who have spent a month on the mainland, ‘bumming around Australia’ as he described it bought some greeting cards and another American couple from North California, where the fires are burning, bought a “Duck Crossing” and “Sleepy Head” pouch.

A couple, with a very articulate four year old daughter, bought some prints. I was so impressed with this little girl’s communication skills and confidence. She just struck up a conversation and chattered away with me. Her vocabulary was impressive.

A couple from Victoria, bought a “Bunk beds” print. It was his birthday gift. I wished him happy birthday and he told me it was yesterday, the same day as my mother’s birthday! He said, ‘she’s probably the same age, 71’. Not so, he’s a spring chicken compared to my mother’s age!’

Bunk beds

I met illustrator Marsha Wajer, who bought, “The Bun” and “Christmas Siesta”. An urban sketcher visited my stall, too. We did a Liz Steel workshop together a few years ago. She was on a girls’ weekend with a large group of her girlfriends.

This wombat has given its hammock a rather Christmas festive appeal. Prints of my original painting are available at: https://pjpaintings.com/collections/christmas/products/christmas-christmas-siesta

A lady, who told me that when she was a kid, an emu stole her vegemite sandwich (definitely an Australian emu!), which after that incident, she was scared of emus. She must have gotten over it because she bought “Joyride” for her partner and “Spanish Eyes (Red)” for her sister.

Spanish Eyes (Red)

A couple of ladies from Brisbane, bought a large “Salamanca Saturdays” tote bag for a friend who paid for their Tasmanian accommodation. A young lady bought a “Fairy wrens” print to send to her mother in the UK.  A couple, who did a direct flight from Perth to Hobart, bought “Bunk beds” and “Afternoon Siesta” prints.

Near the end of the day a young lady from Poland bought “Afternoon Siesta” for her parents. She’s been in Australia for six months and is returning to Poland on Tuesday.

Afternoon Siesta

As the market was coming to a close and people were heading up the street, I heard a boy, I’m guessing that he was about 10 years old, asking his father, ‘dad, dad, how’s my behaviour now, dad?’ I hope he achieved a gold star.

The most popular prints today were the wombats.

A thought to ponder: “I am not strange. I am just not normal”, Salvador Dalí

Wishing you an awesome and creative upcoming week,

from Pj Paintings, stall #30 at Salamanca Market, Tasmania

P.S. Tote bags & pouches are available at http://www.pjpaintings.com