My To Do List

Today is a beautiful sunny day, but cold as we head into winter (Yes Queensland can be cold). I have many things on my today list.

1. Write this blog.
2. Have a shower (very important).
3. Take little Scooby for a walk.
4. Get some new cards up on Etsy (This one is WAY overdue).
5. And practise my craft (in this case art but I should really work on some short stories too).

For number 5 I plan to implement a exercise I read about in the backlogs of Melissa Haslam's Blog, in which she glued a picture of an artist she liked into her visual journal and drew off of it mimicking their style and technique.
The pictures I have chosen to do this with are as follows;

 

Spring by Alphonse Mucha, 1896.

 Island of the Dead by Arnold Bocklin.

 Merlin by Alan Lee, 1999.

 Waiting by Audrey Kawasaki.

 By Brett Manning.

 Andromeda by Edward Burne-Jones, 1888.

 Metamorphoses by Kelly Mckennan, 2009.

And of course the woman who gave me the idea in the first place; Paper Cranes by Melissa Haslam, it was incredibly difficult to choose which of her painting/drawings to use.


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Nymphs Part 2: New

And here's something a little different; none of these pictures were necessarily intended to be depictions of nymphs but I chose because imho they possess a nymph like quality; beauty, allure and a connection to nature.

Paolo Roversi. I really like the energy in this one, she could be Daphne fleeing Apollo and at any second now will sprout leaves and turn into a tree. I also like how nothing that you would expect to be the most important part – the girl – is in focus.

By Melbourne artist Eveline Taruadjaja, her work can be found here; http://lovexevol.com/

I love that her hair is a mushroom, I wish I was this imaginative and talented, but what’s even more amazing about this image is the dress is almost exactly the one my friends was wearing the other day and I attempted to describe in the previous post… weird.

Letting Go by Audrey Kawasaki. Kawasaki’s surreal, dreamlike girls are, to me, the quintessential nymphs. (http://www.audrey-kawasaki.com/)

These two are by another Melbourne artist Melissa Haslam (http://www.melissahaslam.com/). 

Innocence Prevails by Bec Winnel yet another Melbourne artist, Melbourne is totally the place to be, I need to move. (http://becwinnel.com/).

To keep up to date with the words and pictures I'm sharing now head on over to my new website, www.sarahfallon.net.  I'm talking reading, writing and all kinds of daydreamy things.