Studio Work ABOUT my art & others

During the last 2 years since we moved here i am steeped in exploring our environment - wonderful tracts of a mix of wattles and gum trees, forest, flat paddocks and a creek. In an effort to delve past the broad expanse which is so BIG i have gone to my collections of found flora, leaves, branches etc and began the #pocketfinds. It seems i have been doing this kind of collecting, recording, photographing for many years but recently found the perfect name for it.  A few here taken the last few days. click on image to enlarge.  a short post at Regent Park blog includes artist books in progress  here AND DONT FORGET OUR YOU-TUBE CHANNEL - art and lifestyle of an artist newly discovering #countryliving we live with a dairy cow in retirement # Snowcone there are some videos on bookmaking, monoprinting, textiles, workshops etc THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE (please let me know if any links do not work)

  a couple of hours walk along the foreshore in Devonport. Muted with colour enhancements. The bird was added later :) .... Pulled together from my photos

  playing with ideas - using the scanner and pulling the image into pixelmator pro. as always i like to explore how much information can you lose before the image is no longer what it is. sometimes though losing even more image can provide a perfectly cool abstract image. might try that next.

T his skink (it is a skink?) on my studio floor today - I picked him up and before putting him outside i took a photograph. And then i googled - yes its a skink .. a common garden skink ... common? - soooo subjective. but if it means there are many then yes, this skink is common. fascinating to explore colour, shape, texture, those feet ...and i have seen one or two running around without that pointy end of the tail. I believe they drop off when 'caught' and later regrow. i have also seen a blue-tongued lizard here at our new place but didnt have my camera with me. hope to find him/her some day and show you. New place new discoveries having moved recently to the country, regional Tasmania, yet on the very outskirts of towns. also found ... this nest - no idea what type of bird but love the fragility yet strength of this home for birds. so much to appreciate in delicacy, shadow, form, texture, tone. And that touch of greenery. i found it on the floor after a particularly...