This week’s topic for Inspire Me Thursday is the beach.  The idea for this painting came to me as soon as I read the prompt on their website, but it has taken me a while to get it painted.

I wanted to create something with lots of texture.  This is what I came up with:

Sorry, it isn’t a very good picture.  The painting is quite large and I took this photo standing on the table and holding the camera as high as the ceiling, and it still doesn’t quite all fit in the frame.  Hope it shows a little bit of the texture I tried to create.

In other news, next week I will be involved in an exhibition called “Through My Eyes”.  I am one of 6 artists exhibiting, and it is the biggest exhibition I have been involved in.  So, if you’re interested and live in the Brisbane area, I’d love to see you there!  Come along to our opening night and you can sip a glass of wine, meet the artists and view some art.

“Through My Eyes”
Opening night 6pm 08/08/08
& 11am - 6pm on 9, 10, 11 & 12 August

Art Factory Gallery
84 Merivale St,
South Brisbane

The blog is turning into the ‘Kirsten Craft Show’ at the moment (no offence my love, it’s just very you-focused right now!), so I thought I’d better post something. For all those Matt fans. All 4 of you. Whoever you are…

My thumbs breathed a sigh of relief on Saturday - I finally got a new mobile!

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Yay!  The blog is back!

Many thanks to Matt for *finally* doing this for me.  I know he says it isn’t finished yet but it looks pretty good to me.  Plus I think we all know he will never be completely happy with it: there will always be something that needs tweaking.

I hope you will all check back regularly, and I’m looking forward to doing some (hopefully) interesting posts.