What does life look like for this artist and life model in 2021?
I’ve been updating this site a little. While updating my site I might as well update my blog. Last time I wrote it was 2018. So. What does life look like at the moment?Its so interesting that my last post on here was about attending my first ever life drawing class. That was three years ago! Time is fake. Anyway attached to one of those Stable Art Events nude life drawing sessions – one day a model dropped out at the last minute and the facilitator asked me if I could step in to model in her place; I did.In the years following I...
read moreI went to my first life-drawing class <3
Last night I went to my first life-drawing session. It was with Ali Fran of The Stable Art And Design at Urban Paradise Gallery. I had a lovely time. Alison was a lovely host, and the gallery is a pretty great place for this sort of thing, in the break I had a chat with various people about the art on display at the gallery. Drawing is not my strength as an artist, and drawing figures is something else again. Last year for a while I maintained a daily drawing practice, where I would draw flowers. Flowers are much easier to draw than humans...
read moreUrban Paradise Gallery hosts Brisbane Street Art Festival exhibition.
Hi everyone. Yesterday was a big day for me, I was hanging out at Urban Paradise Gallery while they were hosting an event for the Brisbane Street Art festival called ‘Crush This City’. The gallery received a makeover from talented street artists, there was a DJ, a bar, a coffee cart and good street art. Out the back there was a section where members of the public could use spray cans and pencils to give canvasses with some botanical art a street art makeover. It was a good event! The exhibition is on for the next two weeks and I...
read moreBrisbane Postcard Project – 11-15
Hi there! I’ve been steadily working on my Brisbane series. Some time in the last couple of weeks I ended up making a tonne of new postcards. I poured out a little too much paint and ended up making a bunch of post-card bases. Including the postcards that I have already distributed I have close to 50 now! Isn’t that cool! So, here I’m going to highlight the next 5 pieces in the series, from number 11 to number 15. This is number 11 in the series. It was made with fineliners. I bought a set of fluro fineliners. There is...
read moreBrisbane Postcard Project: 6-10
Hi there! I’d like to write about the next five cards in my Brisbane Series project. Last time I wrote I took you through the first five images in the series. Now I’d like to show to show the next five. This is the sixth card in the series. It was created with coloured pencil and acrylic paint. This one was something of a failed experiment. I wanted to create something subtly disturbing. Bright purple with yellow to me can have a little bit of a toxic feel to it, and thats what I was going for – but… in a stylized...
read moreBrisbane Postcard Project
Hi everyone! It has been a little while since I’ve posted. Last time I wrote here it was a couple of months ago and I mentioned a project I was starting about printing up postcards with linework of Brisbane City. Its been a good project so far! I had the linework of the city printed up. I aim to colour in at least one a day. Most days I leave the house and I place them somewhere in Southbank. There was a week or so in there where I was very depressed and leaving the house was difficult, but I was still making the cards, so I have a...
read moreHi everyone! Update on art-and-life.
Hello everyone! It has been a long time since I have written here. Thats something I’d like to change, its a goal this year to blog more often and more consistently. I think a good way to start would be to give an update on what I’ve been up to. There’s been a lot of textile design going on in my life at the moment. The number of listings in my Etsy store has been growing wonderfully. Right now its a goal to add more of these products to this site. I’ve changed my branding from EverAfterArtisanry to Annie B Creative,...
read moreMade in Meeka – Supporting Regional and Indigenous Artists
Earlier in the week I was contacted on my Instagram Account by an account called madeinmeeka. They told me that they were a group working with locals to create community opportunities. They were asking for support in continuing a program so that their remote area artists can continue to make art and share their culture. I had to say I was intrigued. I went to check them out and saw their campaign and I have to say, I liked what I saw. Seriously. Check It Out. Linking again for emphasis. Sadly though as I have previously mentioned I’m an...
read moreArt-Life update and #TheFutureWeWant exhibition
Thursday is blog post day. 😀 So what do I have to say? Whats been going on with me? Well. This week my work is in its first gallery show. Thats very exciting for me. The show (named #thefuturewewant) is being put on by a mob called EPIC Assist, an employment service for folk with disabilities who seem pretty cool. Its being held by Aspire Gallery. Its for professional and emerging artists with a disability being held to coincide with the International Day of Disability. Details of the event are...
read moreMy housemates are Unbelievably Excellent and textile design is Good.
On my housemates being Unbelievably Excellent: They banded together and bought me an iPad pro and an apple pencil as an early birthday/Christmas gift – which is just so nice of them that I’m finding it pretty overwhelming. I guess I ought to talk a little bit about my living situation. I’m told that people like to hear Romantic Notions of Artist Life and there’s some of that going on here. I live in a large three story house that is walking distance from the Brisbane CBD. Its a really cool place! I am a disabled poor...
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