Hello everybody,
I hope that your Wednesday is travelling well.
Back to the Wombatober Challenge. I’m zig-zagging from the Inktober to the Wombatober Challenge. Day 3’s prompt word for the Wombatober Challenge is “Cosy Place”.
This little fellow is feeling sleepy and cosy under its wombat quilt.
I hope you are feeling cosy too!
Cheers, from Patricia (PJ) Hopwood-Wade
I’m doing the Inktober Challenge and then came upon Wombatober, which runs along the same line as Inktober. They’ve released a prompt list to do a drawing a day for the month of October. Doing two drawings a day is a bit much but I’m trying to do as many of the prompt words that I can.
Wombatober’s Day 1 prompt word is “adventure”. Here’s my adventurous wombat.
Wombatober’s Day 2 prompt word was “shining”. This little wombat’s face is glowing from the shining light of glow worms.
I hope you are enjoying your week.
Thank you for visiting.
Cheers, Patricia (PJ) Hopwood-Wade
It was a beautiful, blue-sky day for the entire market today. No wind! Yay!
My first visitors were two ladies from Sydney. They purchased three tote bags: “Hair Accessories”, “Double Date III” and “Salamanca Fresh”. Another lady purchased a Salamanca Fresh tote bag as a gift for her aunt.
A young couple from Wangaratta purchased “Rising Above It” and “Double Date IV” prints. https://www.aussietowns.com.au/town/wangaratta-vic
Two sisters from Perth, WA, deliberated and deliberated until they settled on “Spanish Eyes (Red)” and “The Supremes” prints.
Another set of sisters, but these were young children with their parents, purchased “Poppy Fields” and a whimsical Cup of Tea print.
A lady, visiting from Germany, purchased “Unwinding”. She is a biologist and studies frogs.
I met a Canadian at the market too. She’s visiting a sick girlfriend for six weeks. She bought a wombat print and a small original emu painting of two emus in a bright orange kitchen.
Time for me to pack my suitcase. I won’t be at the market for the next few weeks.
Take care and thanks for visiting.
Cheers, Patricia (PJ) Hopwood-Wade
I brought my original painting titled “Messy Hair Day” to display at Peppercorn Gallery in Richmond, Tasmania, and it sold! 🙂
Wishing you a safe week and wonderful Easter weekend.
Cheers, Patricia (PJ)
I navigated the stairs out of my house in darkness to make the short drive to Salamanca Market. Rain was forecasted but thankfully none eventuated.
My first visitors to the stall were locals and they purchased a “Lazy Days” print, followed by two sisters who bought “Leafy Decorum” and “Glamour Girls” for their mother, just because they love her. Their mother loves black cockatoos.
Some of the under-18 girls Australian Football Rules (AFL) state team, Tasmania Devils, stopped by before playing their Victoria competitors in Hobart. https://tasdevils.com.au/ (unfortunately, they lost their game).
A “Sitting on the Fence” print is heading to Melbourne.
A “Sea Life” print is going to the Gold Coast to adorn a nursery. The couple are expecting their first baby. Water came close to their house but thankfully receded before it reached the house.
A newly married couple bought a “Double Date” print. A lady, visiting from South Australia, purchased a “Bunk Beds” print. She’s travelling around Tasmania before she heads home. Three ladies bought three small “Salamanca Fresh” pouches to remind them of their time here. A man bought a “Salamanca Fresh” cushion cover to take back to Melbourne. My paintings printed on square cushion covers, made in Australia, are available at https://pjpaintings.com/collections/cards
A young man from France purchased some Tasmanian bird images for a souvenir. He’s been travelling for 2.5 years, firstly visiting New Caledonia.
Two original paintings sold today, a painting of platypus and elephants. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a photo of both paintings.
It took me quadruple the time to drive home because there was a car accident before the Tasman Bridge. It was good to get home and put my feet up. 😊
Thanks for visiting and I hope that the upcoming week is a gentle one for you.
Cheers, from PJ Paintings
High quality prints available at www.pjpaintings.com
Whether a friendship is between unlikely companions or not, the value and benefits of friendships are immeasurable. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/5
This relaxing wombat and Scarlet Robin are enjoying their regular friendly catch-up time.
It goes without saying that life is lonely without friendships and that the benefits of friendships are many:
It reinforces my need to make time for my friends and put people before work. After I push “publish”, I’m going to email a friend and ask to meet for a cuppa! and I hope that you can do the same.
Take care, from Patricia (PJ)
There was something unsettling me about this “finished” painting. It wasn’t connecting and the nest wasn’t feeling embedded into the tree. I knew what I should try to resolve the problem, but there is an internal fight that happens- one is telling you play it safe, don’t risk it and the other is saying, try to make it a better painting, don’t leave the ‘what it could have been?’ question unanswered.
I have a card that my daughter gave me that I keep close to my painting desk. It says “Art is Not for the Faint Hearted”. I read it out loud a few times, then gave my brush a few swirls in my water, loaded some alizarin red onto the brush and then there was no turning back. I was committed and I think my bravery was rewarded. What do you think?
Now the painting is being flattened before I take it to the photographer to photograph for prints and frame.
I hope your day is going well.
Cheers from Patricia Hopwood-Wade
Five quality Australiana greeting card sets of my animal paintings are now available through my website https://pjpaintings.com/collections/cards/products/five-australiana-greeting-card-set
The greeting cards feature a platypus enjoying life, a sleepy Tasmanian devil, a family of echidnas, a relaxing wombat and dancing fairy penguins. The animals are all endemic to Tasmania, (so maybe I should name them Tasmanialiana! lol) an island, off the larger island of Australia.
The beauty of greeting cards is that the recipient can get that warm, fuzzy feeling over and over again, each time they look at the card and/or read the words and thoughts you have written. Do you keep and re-read cards that you have received? Every once in a while, I pull out my stash of greeting cards and re-read them. It brings back smiles and memories. It’s a gift that keeps on giving and the recipient can wear the smile you gave them for weeks.
The greeting cards come in two sizes and are printed on quality card. They are nice to frame too.
I hope that you are enjoying a “Taking it Easy” weekend.
Cheers from Patricia (PJ)
It was a rather slow-moving day at the market on Saturday but there was a lot to be thankful for. The sun, and not the wind, was out, and there were no driverless vehicles on the move. Last week, a van was left in neutral without the handbrake on and the van rolled into my next-door neighbour’s gazebo.
The morning started off with “Suspended” being purchased by a lady who informed me that it was going to hang in her boat.
A lady, visiting from Queensland, bought a cushion cover, “Hanging Out”.
Another visitor from Queensland, Noosa, bought a “Silent Disco” print.
Three girlfriends from the northwest coast of Tassie, helped one choose an A-3 sized print of “Glamour Girls”. She wants to hang it above her bathtub. A local Hobartian, who collects fairy wren items, purchased a “Meet Me at the Gate” print. A “Meet Me at the Gate” framed print was also purchased by another Hobart resident.
A couple purchased a “Bunk beds”, “Hanging Out” and “Devilish Siesta” to hang up in their Bed & Breakfast accommodation in St. Helen’s, Tasmania. At the very end of the day, during packing up, there were two couples buying similar sets of prints, but I didn’t have the opportunity to chat much, but I do know that one was a graphic designer. I was quite keen to depart as soon as I could to get home, unpack the car, and get changed to go see the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra play Beethoven IV. https://www.tso.com.au It was a wonderful concert. 😊
Keep well, Pj Paintings
I would like to introduce the newest member to the sleepy head series, this precious little fellow.
The painting is titled “Taking it Easy” and it is also available as a limited-edition print at https://pjpaintings.com/collections/wombats.
I painted this wombat in a green-blue coloured hammock so that it would match with Spiky Bunk Beds, which is also available at https://pjpaintings.com/collections/wombats
I hope you enjoy the newest edition to the Sleepy head series.
Take care everybody, Patricia (PJ) Hopwood-Wade
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