Paint on the paper...

...and most deliciously on my palette too it seems!

Though, this world is new to me. I have not painted since I was in my final year of school. Since nearly as soon after as then it has been in my mind... Then for a time I forgot! I walked among motherhood, weight gain, weight loss, daydreaming - then found my singer's voice, and my pianist's hand.

Before I could blink my 20's had nearly passed by me - but all the while if I were to pass by a thickly embellished abstract oil on paper or canvas I would look intently, and slow my steps, and fix my eyes upon it, and remember my one-time love, of the form.

To paint as my silly head sees things.

To place colour where I will it.

To come back to the place of my later teens...

and to not let my 31st year pass me by, without a new painting finished and posted here.

Shell xx

Dear Charlie...

To finally bring Charlie to film is wonderful to say the least - and a lot of other things...

A song I wrote on the pianola in Mum's lounge room,

after Sarah told me she liked said name...

Charlie has been my muse, my tragic creature, my real life & imagined hero...

And now he is my latest film-clip-video-baby adventure!

I want to thank Kate, Sarah, Anna & "Scottwell behind the mirror"

• for attention to everything important,
• artistic ability unsurpassed;
• enthusiasm {for my foolish schemes} galore!
• And just really, more thank you's than a day could hold for letting me prance around {like a big curvaceous purple woman in front of camera} all day!

What paradise would be - to do such all day, everyday anon!

Songsmith {and friends} xx

A blogger's dedication...

{I'd like to dedicate this post to the three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2009}

...For making the technology of digital photography a reality to all of us folk in the blog world, and everywhere on the www.

The communicative, and artistic opportunities are made excitingly, endless thanks to such genius - and I feel a duty to thank them from my {down under} speck of blogspot - where, without digital photography, {provided by this beautiful baby} - I wouldn't be able to so often convey how I feel, who I am, and where I am, from my lens, to you dear reader!

In celebration, I took a little walk this afternoon with my fancy digital camera, on this most bleak, cold and grey Canberra day.

And I am posting the following pictures in honour of technological blessings, and with thanksgiving for such darn cleverness!

Bless you Nobel Prize winning men! You've helped make our beautiful, vast world, small enough to see it all, through anyone's eyes.

Shell xx