Greetings,
I hope you’re all well in the lead-up to the festive season commencements.
Yesterday, we had the coldest December day in 50 years! Tasmania is experiencing cold Antarctic blasts for a few days. We’re supposed to be experiencing summer weather, not wintery conditions.
Lucky its summery weather where this little wombat decided to jump on a swing. I’ve named this painting “Tickle My Toes”
Enjoy your weekend!
Cheers, Patricia (PJ)
Everybody wearing spotty overalls should make time for a swing!
Prints of this water colour painting are available at: https://pjpaintings.com/collections/wombats/products/time-for-a-swing
Greetings. I hope all is well with you.
I wasn’t able to do Salamanca Market today, so I thought I would write a re-cap of October’s drawings.
October is a busy month with the annual Inktober Challenge taking place. During this month, there is a prompt word for each day to produce a drawing from.
This is challenging enough but then I stumbled across Wombatober, which has a list of prompt words for the month of October too. I didn’t produce 62 drawings. I wish I had! But doing two paintings a day is a bit much when you are running a business, doing gallery duty, Salamanca Market and life in general. I’m glad I took up the challenges and produced what I did.
Here are my favourites:
Inktober – Day 7 – Prompt Word “Trip”
Wombatober – Day 13 – Prompt Word “Dress Up”
Inktober – Day 16 – Prompt Word “Fowl”
The Australian Ibis is a native Australian bird. It has the unenviable “Bin Chicken’ nickname. Many of the ibis have moved into mainland Australian cities and they love to go through the rubbish bins. “Sooooo, you’re the one giving us a bad name!”, says the chicken.
Wombatober – Day 14 – Prompt Word “Toy”
“I want to join the circus when I grow up”.
Inktober – Day 24 – “Fairy”
Wombatober – Day 26 – Prompt Word “Swinging”
Inktober – Day 14 – “Empty”
The feeling you get when you arrive at the beach and it is empty, which is not a rare occurrence on island Tasmania with its just over 500,000 population.
Wombatober – Day 27 – Prompt Word “Warm Drink”
Some of these original paintings are for sale on my website. Most are approximately 20 x 20 cm, painted on Khadi Mill paper made from recycled cotton rags. www.pjpaintings.com/collections/originals
What have you been up to during the month of October?
Wishing you a great month with prompts that result in satisfying accomplishments and a day of pampering.
Wombatober – Day 18 – Prompt Word “Pamper Day”
Cheers for now, Patricia Hopwood-Wade
There’s no other way to describe today other than wet. My feet started squelching in my shoes at around noon.
My first customers of the day were visiting from Brisbane, Queensland. They purchased some A-5 sized wombat themed prints.
My next customers were a lovely couple from Newcastle, NSW. They’ll be returning home with a Sea Life print and the original painting, titled, “Swinging Wombat” is going to its forever home.
A couple visiting from Sydney, NSW, purchased “Silent Disco” and “Bunk Beds”. They were so happy to find my art because their son and daughter-in-law live in USA and send them quirky art from the US. They said that they were having trouble finding quirky art to reciprocate with.
A young lady, from Sydney, travelling with girlfriends, bought a “Garden Roses” and “Scarlet Robins” print. Another group of ladies were travelling together from Perth. One bought three “Bunk Beds” prints and a “The Three Amigos II” print. She gave her two girlfriends a “Bunk Beds” print each. They were quite moved by her gesture, which was met by hugs and thank-you’s.
A couple from Boston, USA, purchased “Meet Me at the Gate” and “Enchanted Forest II”. They asked if they could have a photo with the artist.
A lady from Brazil, with the help of a friend, settled on an A-3 sized print of “Dinner for Five???” She thought my story that they may have to share an ant funny. She plans to hang it in her bathroom with the pen drawing of the Sydney Opera House that is already adorning one wall in her bathroom.
A couple wanted a souvenir to take back to their home in Namibia https://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/namibia . They settled on a “Salamanca Saturdays” print.
A young French couple stopped by. They’re visiting Australia for six weeks. He is an electrician, and she does bar work in France. They purchased an “Iconic Aussies” and “Suspended” print.
A couple from Gisborne, Victoria, https://www.aussietowns.com.au/town/gisborne-vic purchased an original painting, titled “Swing High” for their first grandchild.
Art thought for the day:
“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique”. Isaac Bashevis Singer
Wishing you happy creating-time, Patricia (PJ) Hopwood-Wade
Quality prints of my art are available at www.pjpaintings.com
It showered off and on throughout the day and it was on the chilly side! Brrrr.
The first visitor to the PJ Paintings stall was a gentleman from China. He left with “The Three Amigos” and “Double Date IV” prints and some greeting cards.
Two young ladies from Denmark, who visited the stall before my visit to Canada, returned and purchased “Hanging Out” and “Bunk beds”.
The wombat prints stopped a group of young ladies, from Sydney, in their tracks. One said, “look what you’ve done, you’ve made her cry!” She was moved to tears by “Afternoon Siesta”. She purchased it along with “Spiky bunk beds”.
Grandparents bought a “Duck Crossing” print and tote bag for a grandchild. A mother bought “The Three Amigos” print for her daughter currently living in Dubai. Her strategy is to keep reminding her of Australia so that she gets homesick and returns.
A couple, originally from Kansas, USA, now living in Singapore, left with “Family Outing” and “Under My Red Umbrella” prints.
Every time I think of discontinuing the tote bags and/or the pouches, there’s a real flurry with them. I counted approximately thirteen tote bags and pouches and 40 greeting cards that went. “What the Devil!?” was particularly popular with the bags and pouches today.
Four of my Inktober original paintings sold today: “The Happy Wanderers”, “Swing”, “Big Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Kangaroo” and “Treading through the Tulips” (not tip-toeing through the tulips!)
Also, my small original painting of the extremely endangered Orange-bellied Parrot sold.
The most popular prints today were the wombats and whales.
My prints and greeting cards are available at Artefacts Gallery in the Salamanca Arts Centre. In the meantime, I’m trying to keep up with the demands of the Inktober2019 Challenge and I’m posting my drawings at www.theunfurlingartist.wordpress.com and www.instagram.com/hopwoodwade
A thought to ponder: “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells,” Dr. Seuss (Love it!)
Take care and keep the creative juices flowing,
from the Pjpaintings stall #30 at Salamanca Market.
P.S. Prints, tote bags & pouches are available at www.pjpaintings.com
I’m getting into the swing of this Inktober challenging daily drawing challenge! (lol) Today’s prompt word is “swing”.
I’m giving myself an extra pat on the back because I’m visiting my family in Canada while doing this. (I live in Tasmania, Australia). Doing Inktober while abroad has added an extra layer of challenge. Thankfully the prompt list was released a month or so early, so I was able to get a lot of ideas worked out and a few rough sketches done before the challenge started.
Hoping your week is going swimmingly, wherever on the globe you are, from PJ Paintings
This original is for sale and can be purchased at http://www.pjpaintings.com
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