Witchetty Poo

New Blog

scrappingbee — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:59:43 +0000

I am going to trying out a new typepad blog:

http://witchetty.typepad.com

It is still a work in progress, but this blog will no longer be kept up to date.

Hope to see you over there and don’t forget to change your links

xx Bee

A new banner and a new name

scrappingbee — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:18:09 +0000

I made the decision to change my Etsy store’s name today before I recieved any sales or feedback. When I opened the store I chose the name of my blog but I honestly was never happy with it. Soooo, this morning I took the plunge and chose the new name of Witchetty.

I think it represents my artwork more accurately and I have given my blog a facelift and new name to bring it inline with my store. I hope you like it

Finally … some art!!

scrappingbee — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:15:45 +0000

I have been so busy this week that I haven’t had a moment to paint, however I have been creating paintings in my mind. This morning I just had to put a sketch down on paper as this character has been haunting me for weeks.

At the moment it is just a light sketch, but I am so relieved to give her life. Now I just need to find some time to get out my paints and finish her.

Today is my darling husbands birthday so we will be busy spoling him rotten, but hopefully some time over the weekend I will be able to get some painting done. I really need to get back into the routine of painting regularly and build up some inventory for my Etsy store.

Yesterday I had set aside the afternoon for my daughter and myself to finish unpacking the art room. I had to work an extra half an hour so I had organised for a friend to meet my daughter at the school. Her son is in the same class and my friend was coaching basketball at the school anyway. I arrive a half an hour after school got out to find my friend hysterical and the children missing!! It is a 100m walk across the school at most and they just hadn’t shown up. So we drove around the suburb, called friends and finally after an hour my friend phoned the police. I will say that by this stage I was mildly hysterical myself!! I decided to do one last drive around the suburb and managed to find them over at the high school basketball courts, a block away from where they were supposed to be. Turns out to have been a miscommunication between my friend and her son, but it gave me the fright of my life. Today I feeling very grateful that all is well in my world.

I’m Back!!!

scrappingbee — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:58:46 +0000

Finally we have moved into our new home and I am back online.

It has been the busiest but most rewarding month of my life. I spent two weeks painting the interior of our new home, then a week of packing and we did the big move about 10 days ago.

Since then I have been busy landscaping our gardens, unpacking, working and cleaning our rental ready to hand back our keys. I hand the keys back tomorrow and then I will only have our new home to concentrate my energies on.

As for creating in the past month (besides a lovely new home for our family), well this is the state of my art room…..

Sorting and unpacking my art supplies is Saturdays job. I am really hoping I will be organised enough to participate in Illustration Friday or Inspire Me Thursday this week. I so miss my art!!

Opened an Etsy Store

scrappingbee — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:07:49 +0000

I have finally decided to open an Etsy store to sell my artwork.

Due to moving and organising my new house, I won’t have a lot of time on my hands, so I have just put one painting in the store. I would like to eventually have new paintings regularly and prints and cards for sale, but I will not bee working on this until I am in my new house.

Here is my Store:

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5262769

Away for a while….

scrappingbee — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:34:32 +0000

…as our house is due to be finished any day now and my life is filled with manual labour to make the house livible with some packing thrown in for fun. The time has come for my art room to be packed away and this will mean that I won’t have the time or the means to get creative and maintain my blog.

So I will leave you with a little painting that I finished on the weeked. I is just a fun little painting of a Frog Prince….painted to go with Princess Puss and it will be one of 3 painting created for my daughters play room in our new house.

The photo is rather tragic I am afraid, but I am just too stretched for time to spend trying to get a better one. Acrylic on canvas and embellished with sequins and beads:

IMT – Watercolor… IF – Captain

scrappingbee — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:27:55 +0000

This is another combined Inspire Me Thursday and Illustration Friday artwork.

This weeks Insire Me Thursday topic is Watercolour. I have been procrastinating about trying water colour, however my colour pencil technique is so bad I really needed to have a try at an alternative. I think watercolour will be the way I go from now on with my little illustrations, which I have so much fun creating.

Illustrations Fridays topic is CAPTAIN…..

He is the Captain of his own Universe:

House is nearly finished

scrappingbee — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:16:03 +0000

Finally, after 17 months from signing with our building company, our house is almost finished. Western Australia is currently in the middle of a buidling boom fueled by the resources boom in this state, so 18 months is standard at the moment. Tomorrow is our Pre-Handover appointment is tomorrow so we should have the keys and be able to start painting the walls in about 2 weeks.

Yes, the render is PINK!!!! you are not imagining things. The sample paint looked like a nice coffee colour, but apparantly when in sunlight, this colour is famous for turning pink. Why didn’t the paint shop tell me that before!! Anyway, it isn’t staying, I will repaint when I paint the internal walls.

Inspire Me Thursday – DNA

scrappingbee — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:21:16 +0000

This weeks topic is DNA, which made begin to ponder the question: Do caterpillers and butterflies share the same DNA? I remember being told once that during the metamorphisis stage a caterpiller will turn into a blob of jelly and completely rebuild itself to emerge as a butterfly. So do they share the same DNA?…..YES…although they use different genes located in their DNA suited for the different stages of their life.

So this little question inspired this little painting I completed today….TRANSFORM. It is an 8″ x 10″ mixed media on canvas:

AVAILABLE FOR SALE in my Etsy Store

Illustration Friday and Inspire Me Thursday

scrappingbee — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:00:12 +0000

This week I am short for time, so decided to combine this weeks IF and IMT contributions into one piece. Illustration Friday is Missing, and Inspire Me Thursday is Dear Diary.

This started as a quick pencil drawing, then I added some pen, didn’t like the effect, added some paint and oil pastel, still wasn’t sure, so put some water over the top of the water colour pencils I originally used. Basically, the finished result was a big smudged mess, but somehow I think it works. Gives the look of a diary entry smudged with tears, so I think I will just leave it be.