Isn’t this wombat-mad emu lucky to have a wombat tagging along with her!
I’ve titled this 20 x 20 cm painting on Khadi Mill paper “Tagging Along”. The original painting can be purchased at https://pjpaintings.com/…/origin…/products/tagging-along
I hope you are enjoying your day.
Cheers, from Patricia
I finally finished this small 15 x 15cm watercolour painting. It was drawn for an Inktober Challenge’s prompt word ‘precious’. It was for #inktober2018! It was misplaced and I recently found it while doing some reorganising.
There aren’t too many emu-friendly jewellery shops in Australia, so lucky there is an emu-friendly personalised ant service available because this emu loves to have rings adorning her toes.
The original painting is available at: https://pjpaintings.com/collections/original-paintings/products/copy-of-balancing-act
I hope your toes are feeling happy, with or without toe rings.
Take care, from Patricia (PJ)
I arrived at 5:30 am and started setting up my stall while flocks of screeching cockatoos passed over and a nearby, solitaire kookaburra announced that we were in its territory. It was such a relief to have calm and dry conditions. I was surprised that I was still setting up at 9 am!! I had a few interruptions, but I thought I was making better progress than that!
My first customer was a mother and daughter from Sydney. They debated over “Maggie & Maggie” and “Morning Melody”. The daughter liked the magpies in the urban setting of a chain link fence and picked therefore picked “Morning Melody”. https://pjpaintings.com/collections/birds/products/copy-of-maggie-a-print-of-a-watercolour-painting-of-an-australian-magpie
A couple, from Sorell. Tasmania, who already have three of my art works hanging in their home: G’day, White Faced Scops Owls and Hanging Out, bought two more A-3 sized prints: “Hammock Life” and “Dinner for Five???”. https://pjpaintings.com/collections/realistic-animals/products/dinner-for-five
A couple bought a “Bird Watching” card for their bird spotter mother in the UK.
A teacher, from the Central Coast, NSW, accompanying Year 11 and 12 students on a school excursion, purchased a “Southern Flow” print. They went to MONA yesterday and are heading home tomorrow. Two nights is probably long enough supervising a group of young people. https://pjpaintings.com/collections/whales/products/copy-of-sea-life-a-print-of-a-water-colour-painted-humpback-whale
A student who studied Marine Biology at the University of Tasmania for two years, who is now working in this field in Netherlands, returned to Tasmania to visit friends. She’s going to visit another friend in Brisbane before returning to Netherlands. Before she went back, after completing her studies, she bought a “Hanging Out” tote bag for her Mum. Her Mum uses it all the time and she said that she felt jealous that she didn’t have one. So, she was very happy to be able to find me again and she bought herself a “Bunk Beds” tote bag to have and use in Netherlands. https://pjpaintings.com/collections/bags/products/tote-bag-bunk-beds
A visitor from New York, USA, purchased a “Weightless” print. She’s been to Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and now Tasmania.
A young couple from Sydney, NSW bought a “The Three Amigos II” and “Hanging Out” print. I said that I haven’t been to Sydney for so long. He answered that it’s much nicer here.
My final customer was a local with a friend visiting from Victoria. They went to high school together in Geelong. They bought two cushion covers, “Lazy Days” – for her son living in Taiwan that she is visiting very soon, and “What the Devil!?” for herself and her friend bought a “Southern Flow” print. https://pjpaintings.com/collections/cards/products/cushion-cover-of-a-tasmanian-devl
Until next week, take care,
Warmest regards, Patricia (PJ) Hopwood-Wade
Quality prints of my art are available at www.pjpaintings.com
Art thought for the day:
“Creativity is contagious, pass it on.” – Albert Einstein
Hello,
I hope that this post finds you well.
I finished my painting of a wombat family enjoying an afternoon siesta among shady gum leaves. A light breeze gently swaying the hammocks should help them happily drift off into a relaxed slumber. Each of the hammocks are decorated by gumnut mobiles for the young ones entertainment pleasure.
The original painting is for sale at Tiger ina Papera Unique Woodcraft Salamanca Gallery at Salamanca Place, Hobart, Tasmania. https://www.facebook.com/TigerInaPaperaUniqueWoodcraftsalamancagallery/
Various sizes of quality prints of Family Bunk Beds are available at https://pjpaintings.com/…/wom…/products/family-bunk-beds
Sweet Dreams from Patricia (PJ) Hopwood-Wade www.pjpaintings.com
All my artwork is copyrighted. They are my ideas, drawings and paintings from my imagination. They are not to be reproduced in any manner without permission from the artist, Patricia Hopwood-Wade (pjpaintings@gmail.com).
“Beach Day” I don’t think that this emu is having their beach day in Tasmania today! With the snow on Mt Wellington/kunanyi, the air has a definite chill.
I hope your week is sunny, despite what the weather may be.
Cheers, from Patricia (PJ)
It feels like I have participated in an Extreme Marketing Event, battling a continual, steady flow of 80+ kmph wind gusts and constantly hanging onto the gazebo to keep it from blowing away. They forecasted wind gusts mid-morning, but it was all day long, including while trying to pack up, but it could have been worse because just after I got my tested nerves home, it started raining. I have to be grateful for small mercies.
My first customer bought two bookmarks with my original painted emus.
A couple visiting from Newcastle, NSW, purchased a “Salamanca Saturdays” print. Another couple from Gippsland, Victoria, living on Kookaburra Street, bought some kookaburra prints: “The Three Amigos”, “Sitting on the Fence” and an echidna themed print, titled, “Dinner for Five???”. These five echidnas might have to share an ant for dinner!
A couple from Brisbane chose “Tickle My Toes”, “Wombat Adventurer” and “Meet Me at the Gate” prints. https://pjpaintings.com/collections/wombats/products/tickle-my-toes
A family, visiting from Florida, USA, the father originally from Melbourne but has been living in Florida for 23 years, bought a “Salamanca Saturdays” print as a souvenir. Their young daughter, who had beautiful, auburn coloured hair, was collecting some of the big maple leaves that had blown into my stall. There was no shortage of them. https://pjpaintings.com/collections/the-world/products/salamanca-saturdays
A “Double Date V” print was bought for her sister, named Trish, living in Launceston, Tasmania, because fairy wrens are her favourite bird. https://pjpaintings.com/collections/birds/products/double-date-v-superb-blue-fairy-wren-prints
Another artwork was bought with someone in mind. This time it was a small, framed original painting, titled, “Puppeteer” for a friend who is wombat mad. For herself she bought “Yellow Poppy Fields” and “Come Dream with Me”. https://pjpaintings.com/collections/realistic-animals/products/come-dream-with-me
There were others who stopped by and made various choices during the wind event but gazebo-holding-down isn’t really that conducive to striking up conversations.
Until next week, take care and I hope you’re able to find refuge from wind gusts.
Warmest regards, Patricia (PJ) Hopwood-Wade
Quality prints of my art are available at www.pjpaintings.com
Art thought for the day:
“Merry Baubling!” just in time for Christmas-in-July!
(I’m painting another set of cards, so watch this space for a new Christmas card pack, in time for Christmas-in-December, that will be offered on my website www.pjpaintings.com).
I was surprised to see hundreds of, what is arguably the most iconic toadstool species, the fly agaric, growing along the roadside and in people’s front yard in Strahan and Queenstown, Tasmania. They are toxic and hallucinogenic if consumed raw, but if correctly prepared, they are apparently edible as food, with no ill or hallucinatory effects. I cannot speak from personal experience though. I avoid touching or picking them. I just take hundreds of photos and admire their beauty.
Wild Tasmanian devils only live in Tasmania. I really like the black and red colour combination, so I’m always tempted to paint them together.
Hope your week in bobbing along well.
Cheers, from Patricia (PJ)
Sunrise is just after 7:30am, so it is dark and wintery when stallholders arrive in the wee hours of the morning to set up. Some wear a headlamp to help with the set-up process. It’s a good idea but I think it will annoy me too much. Unlike some markets, there are no solid structures at this market, except for some of the food stalls, the rest are gazebos. This morning was horrid. We had to battle rain and wind with wind gusts up to 50kmph. Not a great day to have to contend with that, especially with more tourists around for Dark MOFO.
I painted a Dark Mofo themed original painting, titled, Feeling Dapper, that I posted on Facebook, yesterday. Somebody came specifically to buy it.
My first customer was a young girl with her family following behind her. Yvette, her music teacher, told her she had to try to find me. She was very pleased to have found me and told me Yvette has several of my emu prints hanging in her house. She’s learning to play the violin and feeds magpies. She’s named the pair that she feeds Maggie and Pippa. She chose “Maggie & Maggie”.
Her mother chose “The Penguin (and one emu) Parade” and “Silent Disco” for Yvette in Geelong, Victoria.
A couple from Melbourne purchased “Iconic Aussies” and “Bunk Beds” and another couple from Queensland, purchased a “Hanging Out” cushion cover.
A couple from Melbourne, he works in Tasmania, he’s fly-in and fly-out auditor, purchased a “Salamanca Saturdays”, “Two to Tango” and “Glamour Girls” prints.
A couple who has moved to Sydney from London purchased “Meet Me at the Gate”, “Blossoming Friendship” and “The Three Amigos II” prints. https://pjpaintings.com/collections/birds/products/the-three-amigos
Another couple, who recently bought a house in Sydney, purchased eleven A-3 sized prints. I think that is the most anybody has bought in one go.
My final visitor for the day was someone who finished the Three Capes Walk. He’s from California, USA and flying out tomorrow, but visiting The Philippines before going home. He purchased a “Scarlet Robins” print.
Then it was time for the slow process of packing and unpacking wet items, tablecloths, gazebo and more.
Until next week, take care.
Warmest regards, Patricia (PJ) Hopwood-Wade
Quality prints of my art are available at www.pjpaintings.com
Art thought for the day:
“Let me ask you something, what is not art?” – Unknown
This clever emu knows that the Mid-Winter Festival, Dark Mofo, in Hobart, Tasmania, is about to start (June 8th) and has dressed for the occasion, wearing her red & black winter coat, which just happens to be Dark Mofo’s theme colours.
The Winter Feast and the Burning of Fears ceremony are two, from the many events and spectacles hosted by the city, big drawcards. https://www.discovertasmania.com.au/things-to-do/festivals-and-events/darkmofo2023/
I’ve titled this painting “Off to Dark Mofo”.
Wishing you a toasty warm week from chilly Tasmania.
Warmest regards, Patricia (PJ)
There were less people at the market today. I imagine that there will be more next Saturday because Dark Mofo is kicking off June 8th. It’s the 10th anniversary of Dark Mofo.
My first customer today was a fellow stallholder. She bought a “Southern Flow” print for her friend that loves whales.
A couple from Canberra on their honeymoon purchased “Morning Melody”. He works for the commonwealth and she’s about to start working as a doctor.
A couple from WA, staying at a B&B in Hobart, had three of my prints hanging in their accommodation and searched for me. The purchased “Hanging Out”, “Afternoon Siesta” and “Enchanted Forest III” prints.
Here’s a photo of a photo of the framed prints at their accommodation.
A visitor from Sydney purchased a “The Three Amigos II” print for her cousin visiting from Scotland.
A family from Toowoomba, Qld, purchased prints for their daughters, one living in Brisbane and the other in Canberra. They bought “Devilish Siesta”, “Spiky Bunk Beds”, “Hammock Life”, “Bunk Beds”, “Hanging Out” and “Home Among the Gum Trees”.
Two travelling from Melbourne chose Tu-whit & Tu-whoo”, “Sitting on the Fence” and “Weightless” prints. Another two travelling together from Vermont, USA, both bought an “Enchanted Forest III” print each. Then, I had another two people travelling together from Germany and they bought an “Enchanted Forest III” and a “Maggie & Maggie” print.
A “Rising Above It” print is going to Vancouver Island, Canada. She’s been in Australia for 7 months and is returning home in less than two weeks. She lives a half an hour or so north of Nanaimo. She When she saw “Rising Above It” she immediately connected it with her mother and said her mother would love it.
Near the end of the day, I had a group from Tucson, USA, and they bought “Lazy Days” and “Enchanted Forest III”.
Enchanted Forest III was the most popular today. I completely sold out of them. Enchanted Forest III prints are available through my website https://pjpaintings.com/collections/birds/products/enchanted-forest-iii
Until next week, take care.
Warmest regards, Patricia (PJ) Hopwood-Wade
Quality prints of my art are available at www.pjpaintings.com
Art thought for the day:
“When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college- that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared back at me, incredulous, and said, “You mean they forget?”” – Howard Ikemoto
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