April - Environment - Nathan Pye

Just a quick shot of a mate's dog in my backyard on a chilled Saturday arvo. Better late than never.

Artist: Nathan Pye
Size: 1280x850
Medium: digital photo
Date:13/5/09 (laaaate)
Title:Dev Jump
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Daniel McKenna-April-Environment

Artist:Daniel McKenna
Size:4m wide by 1.8m high
Medium: Airbrushed with 2pak paint
Date:29/5/09
Title: our coast
Course:Dip graphic design
I did this painting for denington kinder,
I was trying make it look like you were looking out over the bay through a window.

Noel Tibballs - April - Environment

This is a panaramic photo of Sydney Harbour with the Balmain Ferry wharf in the foreground and the Sydney Harbour bridge in the back ground, this photo was taken on a very humid Easter Saturday arvo, shortly after I retired to one of the nearby pubs for the rest of the arvo.
Artist: Noel Tibballs
Size: Unknown
Medium: Photography
Date: 11/4/2009
Title: Quite place
Course: Cert 1V in Visual Arts And Contemporary Arts Course

Dianne Gaetani - April - Environment

After the bushfires in Framlingham, Jan of 2007 I spent the next 10months nursing back to health the many burnt koalas' at the shelter. This is "Cheetah" who won my heart and went from a sick unhappy girl to a bundle of health, released in October.
Artist: Dianne Gaetani
Size:
Medium: Charcoal pencil on paper.
Date: Nov 2007
Title: "Cheetah"
Course: Studio Textiles (2nd year)

April - Environment - Liz Murphy

Echeveria (commonly known as hen and chicken) is my favourite plant. I think they are nature's perfect example of architecture.

Artist: Liz Murphy
Size: 165MB
Medium: Digital PHotography
Date: April 2009
Title: Echeveria
Course: Cert IV Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft

April - Environment - Bonnie Sutherland

photoshopped photo of Echium foliage

Artist:Bonnie Sutherland
Size: 1mb
Medium: Photoshopped photo
Date: 19/05/2009
Title: Purple Paradise
Course: Diploma of Visual Arts

April - Environment - Andrea Radley

We found this bird on the nature strip on the way home from school the last week of term 1. Still in good condition. A great opportunity to view a bird up close.
Artist: Andrea Radley
Size: A4
Title: Sparrow Sketch
Materials: Biro
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For the environment I live in I chose pages from my sketch book. This is a millipede found in our back yard.


Artist: Andrea Radley


Size: A4


Title: Millipede Sketch


Materials: Pencil, collage, Texta mixed with water


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Denise Tonissen - Environment

The great outdoors is THE environment but my environment is more indoors or rather in sheds. A pile of useful things too good to throw away but out of use, gets me going. A thousand bums graced these little benches. A part of history. Stackable plastic chairs were never so beautiful.

Artist: Denise Tonissen
Size: Unknown
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Date: April 2009
Title: 'Bleaches'
Course: Cert IV Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft

Jane Curtis - Environment

My inspiration for this piece was to give the feeling of Australian bush and a suggestion of the flowers being on a tank stand.

Artist: Jane Curtis
Size: Unknown
Medium: Ceramic
Date: February 2009
Title: Whimsical tea pot
Course: Cert 4 in visual arts

April - Environment - Carolyn Reed

I was walking around trying to find images to do with water

and i came across this mushy. I like to get nice and close up
when im taking photos.
Artist: Carolyn Reed
Size: A4
Title: untitled
Materilas: Digitle photo
Diplma of Graphic Design at SWTafe

Your Enviroment/ Roy Rogers

April - Your Environment

Hi everyone,
Well done! March was a great month for postings. Keep them coming.

For April the challenge is to represent the environment that you live in. This could be your physical surroundings, or your mental or emotional environment.

Once again any medium is welcome.

Please remember to put the month, theme title and your name in the post title and to put the following details in the body of the post:
Artist, Title of work, Medium, Date, Course.
A few people are forgetting this bit but it is very important.

Have fun!

March - Fairy Tale - Nathan Pye

This month's entry from me is my interpretation of the Japanese fairy tale 'Bunbuku Chagama'.
From Wikipedia:

Bunbuku Chagama roughly translates to "happiness bubbling over like a tea pot." The story tells of a poor man who finds a tanuki caught in a trap. Feeling sorry for the animal, he sets it free. That night, the tanuki comes to the poor man's house to thank him for his kindness. The tanuki transforms itself into a chagama and tells the man to sell him for money.

The man sells the tanuki-teapot to a monk, who takes it home and, after scrubbing it harshly, sets it over the fire to boil water. Unable to stand the heat, the tanuki teapot sprouts legs and, in its half-transformed state, makes a run for it.

The tanuki returns to the poor man with another idea. The man would set up a 'roadside attraction' (a little circus-like setup) and charge admission for people to see a teapot walking a tightrope. The plan works, and each gains something good from the other--the man is no longer poor and the tanuki has a new friend and home.

In a variant of the story, the tanuki-teapot does not run and returns to its transformed state. The shocked monk decides to leave the teapot as an offering to the poor temple where he lives, choosing not to use it for making tea again. The temple eventually becomes famous for its supposed dancing teapot.

Dancing teapot. Makes me laugh.

Title:Bunbuku Chagama
Artist: Nathan Pye
Medium: Digital image
Date: March 09

March - Fairy tales - Tracey Head

Well is this Prince charming, maybe. A well known fairy tale where we get to kiss the frog and see if he is really a prince. As mentioned by others many tales seem wonderful and full of promises only to realise it is the journey and not the destination that is important, (deep hey). Ive kissed a few frogs in my time and still believe in the magik of life and its treasures it does hold here in reality. I feel it is important to have the wishful playful part of ourselves called the inner child still following the imagination to creativity, freedom and colour.

Title: Prince Charming Anyone

Illustrated by Tracey Head

Graphic Design Diploma Student

Designed in Illustrator and Photoshop

29/04/09

March - Fairytales - Andrea Radley

Rabbits and especially white rabbits appear symbolically a lot in Fairytales and art. They are often used as a symbol ot fertiltiy or rebirth and of playful sexuality, which also relates to the human perception of innocence, as well as its reputation as a prolific breeder.
Rabbits can be seen as defenceless creatures as they are a prey animal and can represent timidity especially in sport.
My piece is a picture of my daugther with her rabbit, which she wanted as a pet because it looked like such a fluffly cuddly creature. It turns out it doesnt like cuddles and has got long nails which leave quiet substantial painful scratches.

Title:Fluffly but not so friendly
Artist: Andrea Radley
Material: Acyrilic paint, impasto on paper
Date: October 2008
Size: 40cms x 21cms