Hello!!!
I’m back. Almost a month of amazing experiences in Indonesia and Malaysia and I don’t even know where to begin. So I’m starting with a quick peek into my sketchbook from my time away, and will follow up with as few photos as I can manage! {I took hundreds so brace yourself.}
I didn’t do a whole lot of art but here are a few of the more developed sketches I did, plus a drawing by a little boy of nine named Bobi in Lombok, who marvelled at how many pencils I had and asked if he could have a go. He worked so carefully, and didn’t even want to keep his masterpiece when it was finished; a great lesson in letting go for me!
You may notice a theme to these… apparently I can only do faces now. Probably just a phase; they are easy and quick when you want to just move a pencil around. There was so much inspiration out there I look forward to seeing how that comes out in future paintings.
{this one below is my favourite, and the only one I did with acrylics;the others are pre~prepared inkblots and water soluble pencils}
It’s good to be home. 🙂
YAAAAYYY! To all of the above!!!
Gorgeous work, too… lovelovelove the coloring in each…
<3
Looking forward to hearing more tales from your idyll … it sounds like it was refreshing. As for Bobi not wanting to keep his art, I see that as a gift to you — for allowing him the opportunity to “play” with all your pencils. His way of saying “thank you” for your kindness. And a big YES to the lesson in “letting go”. xo
welcome back. look forward to hearing of your experiences.
Awwww that’s just so lovely. I’m glad you had such a wonderful time and welcome back!!!!
ooo forgot to say. Ive put up a link to your website on my blogs Links page. Hope thats ok? Its a just a small selection of my favourite pages atm and eventually i’ll get round to doing some feature posts but i thought a link might be a good start to share your ah-mazing work xx
Tara!! WELCOME BACK!!! I have very little time right now but i just HAD to tell you how nice it is to have you back!!
These women paintings are so wonderful!! The colors so ALIVE. I’ll write more later… can’t wait to hear all about the trip.
Ah, the idea of taking off for a month is just soooo appealing to me right now. xoxo
Welcome Home Tara…loving your sketchbook pages…really different for you – can’t wait to see your photos and future art.
ack!!! i wasn’t getting your feed….lost in the shuffle of me “moving house”…
anyhoo!!! belated welcome back!!! i’m looking forward to catching up with everything…
xo
I’m glad you found me again! Yay!x