tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58290979263167647752024-02-20T01:50:43.879+10:00Chasing Purple DreamsThe artwork and creative meanderings of Kylie Marie Stevens…Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.comBlogger230125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-22278898622831157472011-11-06T17:45:00.000+10:002011-11-06T17:45:22.501+10:00Sunday...<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">making miniature copper barbed wire…</span></div>
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playing with silk and rust…</div>
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cooking onion jam...</div>
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What a fabulous Sunday – hope you have enjoyed sharing a few snippets!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m off to check out the other Sunday Snippets and see if I can get back into the swing of blogging…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
</span>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-29414606673648315572011-07-21T07:55:00.000+10:002011-07-21T07:55:28.868+10:00A day in the studio...<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvJ0Ath1xxY9n6f6qSAgsIB6CMIjPEuIgHkki82e9k93W0DYU1HfOgT8Wljh3KVzMEVmYjK4JENqizLtGJF6R10F0LwTZxZMV7gqWF07A2ZLu7U4bkLMxWiNzLMSS8L9H3pgKgUGSrYG5e/s1600/283877_113768438718554_106246692804062_103914_8044124_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvJ0Ath1xxY9n6f6qSAgsIB6CMIjPEuIgHkki82e9k93W0DYU1HfOgT8Wljh3KVzMEVmYjK4JENqizLtGJF6R10F0LwTZxZMV7gqWF07A2ZLu7U4bkLMxWiNzLMSS8L9H3pgKgUGSrYG5e/s320/283877_113768438718554_106246692804062_103914_8044124_s.jpg" t$="true" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Want to vicariously hang out in my studio for the day?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pop on over to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/KylieStevensArtworkAndCreativeMeandering">my new art page</a> and check out the pics I am loading at every stage of todays work…</span></div></span>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-58611971901039508882011-07-16T13:36:00.005+10:002011-07-16T13:47:19.372+10:00New work…<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHOUHnbPALHD6VOZyi1j12eEbQ7eoMZtIXJ2SDR6Fno0KxrZHiw_3SL4GWrstmM3jPxGyotweFrAJ2pByJVVDovabBMw6CkSpcc160BDxrgQ579BkHpnULI0i78cziPerznuvP67IMQiYE/s1600/Fear+and+Sadness.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHOUHnbPALHD6VOZyi1j12eEbQ7eoMZtIXJ2SDR6Fno0KxrZHiw_3SL4GWrstmM3jPxGyotweFrAJ2pByJVVDovabBMw6CkSpcc160BDxrgQ579BkHpnULI0i78cziPerznuvP67IMQiYE/s320/Fear+and+Sadness.jpg" width="316px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fear and Sadness</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kylie Marie Stevens</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Encaustic, pastel and transfer of mounted linen</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">600 x 600mm</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2011</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I can feel a new series bubbling away within me here…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel that I will be able to developed a “language “with this style which will make my work more “readable”…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I’m excited, but also apprehensive about putting so much of what is in side “out there” to be looked upon… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I feel it’s time to be more open…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>There are <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kylie-Stevens/106246692804062">more changes</a> on the way as I begin to shed the protective layers…</span></div>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-80797164208624432072011-07-07T08:33:00.000+10:002011-07-07T08:33:51.419+10:00Tea Taking Paraphernalia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1skX-z1R53vGpw3gZvi8VCF6I9JUAiY35V_d0ZeeAZxjYADpHGV0t_BrCMXle4DA_mIbrZYc9z9qX8i0QNz-4bVdUDUpnXC2jKR4Gn4sUZYrwFk7HqDgBh6nGyRv8LmzXVUUbhjAW4mG2/s1600/Tea+Taking+Paraphernalia+encastic+on+mounted+canvas+tea+and+spoon+600+x+600+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1skX-z1R53vGpw3gZvi8VCF6I9JUAiY35V_d0ZeeAZxjYADpHGV0t_BrCMXle4DA_mIbrZYc9z9qX8i0QNz-4bVdUDUpnXC2jKR4Gn4sUZYrwFk7HqDgBh6nGyRv8LmzXVUUbhjAW4mG2/s320/Tea+Taking+Paraphernalia+encastic+on+mounted+canvas+tea+and+spoon+600+x+600+2011.jpg" width="319px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Tea Taking Paraphernalia</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Kylie Marie Stevens</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Encaustic, tea and spoon on mounted linen</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">600 x 600mm</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">2011</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">$250</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The opening night of Infused is tonight at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Swich-Contemporary-Art-Space/114582858625226?ref=ts">The Swich Contemporary Art Space</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been in and had a look at the show and it looks fantastic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was <a href="http://chasingpurpledreams.blogspot.com/2011/06/creating-with-tea.html">so much fun working on this piece</a> and contemplating all things tea.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">This is the artist statement that accompanies my piece...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">While exploring tea for the Infused exhibition I began contemplating the parallels between tea and other drugs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Both the taking of tea and drugs are often steeped in ritual, both provide comfort, become ingrained in habit and require specific paraphernalia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Similarities can be seen between the chopped leaves at the centre of both the tea and marijuana rituals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Connections are also present between the spoons used in tea making and in the cooking up of injectable drugs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">“Tea Taking Paraphernalia” is a mixed media encaustic painting, created using real tea for the pigment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tea leaves float within the texture and the used spoon adds a sculptural element, hinting at the parallels between tea and drug taking.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">---</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-26632645578275578402011-06-23T16:11:00.000+10:002011-06-23T16:11:58.870+10:00Workshop<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Looking to learn how to use some exciting new materials?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keen for something inspiring to do this weekend? Check this out…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Starlight </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">oil and silver leaf on linen </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">920 x 730mm</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2002</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I just got word that this painting sold in at the Black and White exhibition at </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/arttimesupplies"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Drawing Point Gallery</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sad to see it go as it’s a long-time favourite, but I hear the new owner loves it and that makes me smile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I’ve also sold a couple this week in my </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">9th… 9… $90…9:00… over on<a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/ChasingPurpleDreams"> facebook</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why not pop by to see which ones or perhaps nab yourself a bargain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span></div>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-32327785340139818012011-06-09T07:00:00.000+10:002011-06-09T07:00:12.025+10:00Creating with Tea...<div class="separator" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;">I’ve been sprinkling, rubbing, boiling, playing and loving painting with tea in <a href="http://ourcreativespaces.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">my creative space</span></a> this week. My studio smells so good! All for an up coming tea themed group exhibition, titled Infused, at my local art space <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Swich-Contemporary-Art-Space/114582858625226"><span style="color: blue;">The Swich</span></a>. </span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Angelina; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Stopping for a cuppa is often a stalling/procrastinating tactic on a painting day, but not today. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today I shall be making lots of tea and it’s all in the name of research and “paint” prep….</span></div>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-72527309980716959532011-05-31T11:40:00.000+10:002011-05-31T11:40:50.281+10:00Delivering Donations to the Displaced<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Hot off the work bench, I literally only finished this piece minutes ago. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m really happy with it, but I am not sure about the name, I’m hoping something more eloquent will come to me…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">It’s the latest in my <a href="http://chasingpurpledreams.blogspot.com/search/label/Community">community series</a> and it is about my memory of the well worn path through our local evacuation centre during the <a href="http://chasingpurpledreams.blogspot.com/2011/01/inspired.html">floods</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many, many locals who were not affected donated anything they could to those in our community who had lost so much. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was such a help to me to be able to do something positive amongst so much devastation and I hope that in some small way it gave comfort and practical assistance to those in need. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I’m so happy all of the busy, busy days are over and I can settle back into some sort of normal rhythm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The painting that is on my work bench has waited so long to come to life and I am really happy with how it is coming along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully I will be able to share the finished piece in the next couple of days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I’m thinking I might choose “Monochromatic” as my theme this year, I like working monochromatically; I think I can get comfortable with that. Are you going to join in this year?</span></div>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-88756335132229230462011-04-13T13:53:00.000+10:002011-04-13T13:53:36.870+10:00A strange little job…<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Today one of the jobs on my "to do list" is removing the wax residue on these little copper balls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">They will be part of my third attempt at the <a href="http://chasingpurpledreams.blogspot.com/2011/04/disaster-in-studio.html">still in progress</a> “Entwined in the Community” painting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>The wax that is on them is left over from when they were imbedded in the first attempt. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I’m off to boil the jug to get them all cleaned up. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>What strange little jobs are you up to today?</span></div>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-66105913922902410602011-04-07T07:51:00.000+10:002011-04-07T07:51:58.176+10:00Cooking in the studio<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Cooking today, but in <a href="http://www.kootoyoo.com/2011/04/my-creative-space-11.html">my creative space</a>, not in the kitchen…</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u>Ingredients</u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">1 kg pure bees wax</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">200 gr refined bees wax pellets</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">220 gr damar resin crystals </li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Mix together all ingredients and melt over low heat stirring constantly until combined (about 30 minutes).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Ladle mixture into patty cake tins and wait till cool and resolidified.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Pop out of tins and store until next painting day!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">My favourite kind of cooking – mixing up encaustic medium. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It feels so good to have a big fresh batch all ready to go. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The possibilities of it are endless; I wonder what paintings this batch will become…</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">For those of you following <a href="http://chasingpurpledreams.blogspot.com/2011/04/disaster-in-studio.html">my disaster in the studio</a> yesterday, take 2 didn’t go well. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I will resurrect this piece, take 3 will be the winner – I just know it.</div>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-56788895682202374572011-04-06T07:49:00.000+10:002011-04-06T07:49:41.981+10:00Disaster in the studio…<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">While<a href="http://chasingpurpledreams.blogspot.com/2011/03/entwining.html"> threading the twine</a> through the copper balls late yesterday afternoon I bumped one – hard, I cracked the wax supporting it near the base which meant it was no longer embedded firmly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I was furious with myself and walked away to calm down, when suddenly the solution for how to mend it came to me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wanting to get it sorted out straight away, I took a deep breath and headed back into the studio, I should have just stayed away…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Heating the substrate from below was a good idea, but it required more delicacy and patience than I had to give at the end of the day. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I have a smooth puddle in <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_822183100">my lovely texture</a></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><a href="http://chasingpurpledreams.blogspot.com/2011/03/work-in-progress.html">L</a></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I don’t think it is reparable; I am going to try, this morning while I am feeling fresh, but I think I am going to have to end up melting the whole painting off and starting again. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is one of the beauties of encaustics that I can do that, but it’s so sad as I really loved the texture in this piece and I was ready for it to be finished so I could move onto the next piece that is on my mind. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I suppose these days happen to make us appreciate the days when everything goes right…</span></div>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-41180570743224201832011-04-01T08:04:00.000+10:002011-04-01T08:04:51.835+10:00So close… but still so far away…<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrz1cGMYQbRFfkKSOY1V8Ns0AXo6U3-9tEziOmkVF9zCKa5oyRo8PpzCyGjrk068v7u2HAmnHEt0Y0Nt59z0a9az41ye4i-_Nx4A1Rm0yH-e59Pok0TbHLF-xz62fjKMAIfZyPo3PMvnQz/s1600/IMG_3515.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrz1cGMYQbRFfkKSOY1V8Ns0AXo6U3-9tEziOmkVF9zCKa5oyRo8PpzCyGjrk068v7u2HAmnHEt0Y0Nt59z0a9az41ye4i-_Nx4A1Rm0yH-e59Pok0TbHLF-xz62fjKMAIfZyPo3PMvnQz/s400/IMG_3515.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I just want to move in right now!</span></div>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-82346769931839621112011-03-31T08:43:00.005+10:002011-03-31T08:45:51.632+10:00"Entwining"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi7Pn978wjQ2WoTUy3cPIvKOkEsdTq2fyuSHkrFrSp4wAWZkfZfmq3o0FawpPt8TE6z2LWJhJXOg08cGWyrxlTDojDYGJaid8hIKFyvlm43nVO__y9uGiFOrS1KHpyC8UyScc8_IEbM2dR/s1600/IMG_3523.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi7Pn978wjQ2WoTUy3cPIvKOkEsdTq2fyuSHkrFrSp4wAWZkfZfmq3o0FawpPt8TE6z2LWJhJXOg08cGWyrxlTDojDYGJaid8hIKFyvlm43nVO__y9uGiFOrS1KHpyC8UyScc8_IEbM2dR/s400/IMG_3523.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Detail of “Entwined in the Community” in progress</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Encaustic and copper on mounted linen </span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Today I hope to get the entwining part of my <a href="http://chasingpurpledreams.blogspot.com/2011/03/its-bit-like-watching-grass-grow.html">latest</a> <a href="http://chasingpurpledreams.blogspot.com/2011/03/work-in-progress.html">work</a> “Entwined in the Community” done. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will involve lots of carefully, but forcefully find paths through the copper balls for the needle and twine. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmkJqDEP_r0Llukw1I7oi8AEOY0twfce7zRhJETiSGgXM5yGZCeBfKKSGdwaIxw498gKlVlM3N00wnm8ch6EzU5uhYYRP61mDOKK1fHus92S2RrDaeiNGmtjc7D1PheODPFZ1i4b9aIeuB/s1600/IMG_3519.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmkJqDEP_r0Llukw1I7oi8AEOY0twfce7zRhJETiSGgXM5yGZCeBfKKSGdwaIxw498gKlVlM3N00wnm8ch6EzU5uhYYRP61mDOKK1fHus92S2RrDaeiNGmtjc7D1PheODPFZ1i4b9aIeuB/s400/IMG_3519.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Detail of “Entwined in the Community” in progress</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Encaustic and copper on mounted linen </span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Time consuming and a little frustrating, but oh so satisfying as it the piece is so close to finished…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I wonder if anything simular is happening in other <a href="http://www.kootoyoo.com/2011/03/my-creative-space-10.html">creative spaces</a> across the globe…</span></div>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-90859466419174819442011-03-29T11:08:00.005+10:002011-03-29T11:11:46.153+10:00It’s a bit like watching grass grow…<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I’m spending a lot of time today waiting for copper to cool and wax to set. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLDcTzsHaFUHJCKVvQvQXwlTuW-S-_zWlhKUjiJxS8oCWdxzDv_xmUXRB7UgXf5-Q5pmYmI38YWXATjtSrgjYZsS1uP7_z6t-jdTh5tm_yejhvPIEOeumC-6DSiiqKJU4pXY0S0twhv8w-/s1600/IMG_3511.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLDcTzsHaFUHJCKVvQvQXwlTuW-S-_zWlhKUjiJxS8oCWdxzDv_xmUXRB7UgXf5-Q5pmYmI38YWXATjtSrgjYZsS1uP7_z6t-jdTh5tm_yejhvPIEOeumC-6DSiiqKJU4pXY0S0twhv8w-/s320/IMG_3511.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Detail of “Entwined in the Community” in progress</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Encaustic and copper on mounted linen </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Every time I paint a layer I have to fuse it (heat the surface with my heat gun) and in the process the copper wire balls heat up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I have to wait for it to all cool down and set again so I can paint the next layer (the copper keeps it heat for quite a while – so it is making the process quite drawn out). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>If I moved onto the next layer before it was really cool and set I might dislodge the balls with my paint brush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In reality there is so little to do until this piece is finished, but it is going to take some time and patients to get there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not very good at all this waiting business!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-15075910965063052011-03-25T09:25:00.000+10:002011-03-25T09:25:08.531+10:00Anticipation…<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We are getting really close to living <a href="http://chasingpurpledreams.blogspot.com/search/label/Dream%20Home">here</a> now…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t wait to hang out on the deck every day; it’s so peaceful among the tree tops, listening to the water trickling down our little creek.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0iV2_UoEKrzx3Z05DzYokmFgWF8AF5E4NvW4YDiaIk42Z1RqHBqu5jwUWIVuHZGq64LWvMAqBy7KqIljTR93hYlTfUS3hKJlXnQ3HUPPkYrRQVdfP2r9X2ho1rlMRxeKsECiBY7JI8Pso/s1600/IMG_3472.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="246" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0iV2_UoEKrzx3Z05DzYokmFgWF8AF5E4NvW4YDiaIk42Z1RqHBqu5jwUWIVuHZGq64LWvMAqBy7KqIljTR93hYlTfUS3hKJlXnQ3HUPPkYrRQVdfP2r9X2ho1rlMRxeKsECiBY7JI8Pso/s400/IMG_3472.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>We don’t have an exact date yet, but soon, about 3 weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are going to be the longest 3 weeks ever!</span></div>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-40871095281046423482011-03-24T07:59:00.000+10:002011-03-24T07:59:22.247+10:00Work in Progress...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlHBBrriwfaTL8i95brwcnFf0LLj3OWL0NTAGmdPAXTR-1zeiuPEqGEDkQKmJxF16z5y-Py-48qgweVb8lJoY6IQJE5zKAPuM3LOSWlzIn7WJ572cOFSFIcehrtz8uCyG0-AoMAYcQNEHT/s1600/IMG_3508.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlHBBrriwfaTL8i95brwcnFf0LLj3OWL0NTAGmdPAXTR-1zeiuPEqGEDkQKmJxF16z5y-Py-48qgweVb8lJoY6IQJE5zKAPuM3LOSWlzIn7WJ572cOFSFIcehrtz8uCyG0-AoMAYcQNEHT/s400/IMG_3508.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I’m loving the background I am working on in <a href="http://www.kootoyoo.com/">My Creative Space</a> this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have my fingers crossed that the whole painting goes as smoothly as this stage has, as I have already entered it in a competition! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo6gL3GAHHDIUjuo5RbgdmzZp4xQre-BiJZYLaTl0s3LA3k4jkrr3c7JhKiOKBZ9QAt6MGZAQFQzVYWKpYOWdDHALxTSGfNUIe48fnDVJB8h2RcCzN28wXTor4iHp74idaqvqnxKJcC2YH/s1600/IMG_3510.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo6gL3GAHHDIUjuo5RbgdmzZp4xQre-BiJZYLaTl0s3LA3k4jkrr3c7JhKiOKBZ9QAt6MGZAQFQzVYWKpYOWdDHALxTSGfNUIe48fnDVJB8h2RcCzN28wXTor4iHp74idaqvqnxKJcC2YH/s400/IMG_3510.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;">The vision in my head is great (it will be a bit <a href="http://chasingpurpledreams.blogspot.com/2011/02/community-ties.html">like this one</a>), just got to hope I can bring it to life… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a bit of time to rework it if it is a flop, so not<strong> too</strong> much pressure... </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wish me luck. </span></div>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-49104947496118051092011-03-08T12:08:00.000+10:002011-03-08T12:08:01.156+10:00Box Making…<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk4Qr2lAiNL8PV5Sl4N0w8TxZSVAmBvvIltWlOFIbVcXixhpYHhOAHcmiDrAjHYKlcA9YUOorTswgTO2jJsERE7UHOPDJiBJVP9lCJvNjt084JlXD_MrVETHa_sKjFix1i-g-9VKYGGnKC/s1600/IMG_3493.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="168" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk4Qr2lAiNL8PV5Sl4N0w8TxZSVAmBvvIltWlOFIbVcXixhpYHhOAHcmiDrAjHYKlcA9YUOorTswgTO2jJsERE7UHOPDJiBJVP9lCJvNjt084JlXD_MrVETHa_sKjFix1i-g-9VKYGGnKC/s320/IMG_3493.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">No painting today, I’m making a box... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I’m speaking about my arts practice tonight at the <a href="http://creativegeneratorseq.wordpress.com/events-workshops/">Creative Generator [Social] Networking Event</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know public speaking – ARRGGHH, I said yes really quickly before the chicken in me could think about how nerve racking it was going to be!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5o5G-ERm91ksW7kyOAEmNGmtjCR6pX7EJ4SEg3YsnZtFaprAWaVnFgSrXV3lT1VU5ECl3a4x_0unFuvNHSxU7xgRBC6fzY7YusCOHLTgjlV-fRhS5vqaR07Oksoca0DIz7lyB7HJziggt/s1600/Community+Ties+450+x+500+encastic%252C+copper+and+twine+on+canvas+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5o5G-ERm91ksW7kyOAEmNGmtjCR6pX7EJ4SEg3YsnZtFaprAWaVnFgSrXV3lT1VU5ECl3a4x_0unFuvNHSxU7xgRBC6fzY7YusCOHLTgjlV-fRhS5vqaR07Oksoca0DIz7lyB7HJziggt/s320/Community+Ties+450+x+500+encastic%252C+copper+and+twine+on+canvas+2011.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">But back to the box making. … I am taking along this piece, <a href="http://chasingpurpledreams.blogspot.com/2011/02/community-ties.html">Community Ties</a> and so it makes it there and back safely, I am making it a little box. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>If you have something precious that needs boxing, check out <a href="mms://video.vcu.edu/agower/Packing_and_Shipping_by_Rodney_Thompson.wmv">this lecture</a> for some great tips. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">He makes some really valuable points within the lecture, my favourite being” If you show people that you honour and respect your work, they will too”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Wish me luck for tonight, my stomach is doing summersaults! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-87231667948328199982011-03-03T06:48:00.000+10:002011-03-03T06:48:50.010+10:00“Community Connections”<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig16Ech2GVXO1YpOVY_qMkQ9jmB6qcG9fxLwNykDdOmC8dcbiUDYjPH-WRZj97wNw4-2rW2yjuGtI-l7qEDADiJ_aniINxCtMeOcqnefpqwSdzIPnDyHTfJrxhv7Z3k4pOtTCh0aSeAYCV/s1600/IMG_3482.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="392" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig16Ech2GVXO1YpOVY_qMkQ9jmB6qcG9fxLwNykDdOmC8dcbiUDYjPH-WRZj97wNw4-2rW2yjuGtI-l7qEDADiJ_aniINxCtMeOcqnefpqwSdzIPnDyHTfJrxhv7Z3k4pOtTCh0aSeAYCV/s400/IMG_3482.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">“Community Connections”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Kylie Marie Stevens</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">encastic on linen</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">300 x 300mm</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">2011</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Each little circle - a person…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Each little line - a connection…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Each connection - a building block with which strong communities grow…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">This piece symbolises the connections and community that I have found online. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such beautiful and fruitful connections with so much room to grow.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Create some more online connections of your own over <a href="http://www.kootoyoo.com/">here</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-24292987325165472212011-02-17T07:22:00.000+10:002011-02-17T07:22:20.759+10:00Community Ties<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">My blogging space may have been quite slack lately, but my creative space is still full steam ahead. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am madly in love with my latest painting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t always feel like this when I finish a piece, but this is the feeling I am always chasing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knowing that it can feel this good is what pushes me along through all of the hard work.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_2VrMKzG819ezKp9wM_uiEOebcHpbdLyeJ0z_wx0VLu6jiP3zP4XzUZE2SvHcSghWrsKbdAGyzHJHnaViTA8oOFrZQILLmNYofXFKGC5bx-7qA8CUejLGaIEAQWC15n6heI1eXbLbJUzn/s1600/Community+Ties+450+x+500+encastic%252C+copper+and+twine+on+canvas+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_2VrMKzG819ezKp9wM_uiEOebcHpbdLyeJ0z_wx0VLu6jiP3zP4XzUZE2SvHcSghWrsKbdAGyzHJHnaViTA8oOFrZQILLmNYofXFKGC5bx-7qA8CUejLGaIEAQWC15n6heI1eXbLbJUzn/s400/Community+Ties+450+x+500+encastic%252C+copper+and+twine+on+canvas+2011.jpg" width="356" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"Community Ties"</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Kylie Marie Stevens</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">encaustic, copper and twine on canvas</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">450 x 550mm</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">2011</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I am embarking on a new series exploring the concept of “Community", for me the copper balls represent the people within the community that are tied together with the twine that symbolises different strands or groups within our larger communities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju1975OuX7vDePkfeTJbL7AwZB8KcNF9q-bWLrCrS0DNBIIIcDRvQTBjCHMkJzfGj7KQ1H2je3ouMqcoTWMyy2OJ-ESiwGJv8fUn0XXEy0cbd-RG5oC4ZsH65EHEbY-6ZkbpUiVsbeq_Oa/s1600/Community+Ties+detail+compressed.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju1975OuX7vDePkfeTJbL7AwZB8KcNF9q-bWLrCrS0DNBIIIcDRvQTBjCHMkJzfGj7KQ1H2je3ouMqcoTWMyy2OJ-ESiwGJv8fUn0XXEy0cbd-RG5oC4ZsH65EHEbY-6ZkbpUiVsbeq_Oa/s320/Community+Ties+detail+compressed.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Community Ties - detail</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I’m hoping to do a piece soon on my involvement with the bloggy community, but I haven’t yet come up with a way to represent it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does community mean to you? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you feel a stronger connection with your physical/locality community or your online community? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I hope you are having a good <a href="http://www.kootoyoo.com/">Creative Space</a> day… Pop on over <a href="http://www.kootoyoo.com/">here</a> to join in the fun.</span></div>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-5689998939914342642011-02-04T09:05:00.001+10:002011-02-04T09:33:56.022+10:00A Fresh Start<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj4IqfPGOpxzGLDF1PVmOrBv9mfNF5X1DGmVuuig659FG8Hhs53wDBNm0QkE8_WN8tLZR90enaadA-6ARThg3DtW5PokSaAL_LKPhPlV1G3NrmKkYEeAKJ0bM0ifbEXkAR47kfmHcDDO3s/s1600/untitled+encastic+on+timber+240+x+290mm+2011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="323" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj4IqfPGOpxzGLDF1PVmOrBv9mfNF5X1DGmVuuig659FG8Hhs53wDBNm0QkE8_WN8tLZR90enaadA-6ARThg3DtW5PokSaAL_LKPhPlV1G3NrmKkYEeAKJ0bM0ifbEXkAR47kfmHcDDO3s/s400/untitled+encastic+on+timber+240+x+290mm+2011.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"A Fresh Start"</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;">Kylie Marie Stevens</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Encaustic on timber</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">240 x 290mm</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">2011</span></span><br />
$90</div><div align="center"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I had a really creative day on Tuesday. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started and finished<a href="http://chasingpurpledreams.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-work.html"> a new encaustic</a> and reworked two which I had previously thought of as duds...</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">This is one of the reworked duds, I didn’t have a title for it until this morning, but as soon as I thought of it I knew it was perfect...</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I have called it “A Fresh Start”, it seems appropriate on so many levels to me at the moment…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">I hope that this beautiful sunshiny day is a fresh start for the weather in poor old battered <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Queensland</place></state>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">I hope the fact that I have now blogged<a href="http://chasingpurpledreams.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-work.html"> two days in a row</a> is a fresh start for my slack start to blogging in 2011…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">We put our house on the market this week, as we are soon to make a fresh start in our beautiful <a href="http://chasingpurpledreams.blogspot.com/2011/01/check-out-our-tree-house.html">purple tree house</a>…</li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Are you embarking on any fresh starts yourself?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d love to hear about them…</div><div align="center"><br />
</div>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5829097926316764775.post-29188793232896311172011-02-03T15:10:00.001+10:002011-02-03T15:14:57.777+10:00New Work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxbq1Rm3Zuqb5dnH06NrrOe4-efFv8Bz40SQo0KQGFIBooiZfsoPs6THumXjouc8scR32Q0maQXRXjxIYRJG6t_K6s4aJE7dlXtYt-oWeFHZauCGhTxQbZBRVaGE_Zxc7rNR85_IvHEXYX/s1600/Create%252C+encaustic+on+canvas%252C+400+x+500mm%252C+2011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxbq1Rm3Zuqb5dnH06NrrOe4-efFv8Bz40SQo0KQGFIBooiZfsoPs6THumXjouc8scR32Q0maQXRXjxIYRJG6t_K6s4aJE7dlXtYt-oWeFHZauCGhTxQbZBRVaGE_Zxc7rNR85_IvHEXYX/s400/Create%252C+encaustic+on+canvas%252C+400+x+500mm%252C+2011.JPG" width="312" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Create”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Kylie Marie Stevens</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Encaustic on canvas</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">400 x 500mm</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">2011</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">$120</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">No words today, just wanted to share and <a href="http://www.kootoyoo.com/2011/02/my-creative-space.html">play along</a>…</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Chasing Purple Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480966080150769554noreply@blogger.com3