WEEK TWO AT TARRALEAH
The second week at
Tarraleah has been very productive. It's amazing how much painting one can
get done by working regular hours - my hours have been
anything but regular, but there have been a lot of them. Just to tease you, here are four stages of the corner of the
painting that's been keeping me up quite late at night. It still has
unresolved problems, so it came home to my studio today and can stay
there until I work out how to fix it.
Sometimes a tourist
has wandered in; here's one of them. This is the gallery space in the
reception area.
Despite working till midnight some evenings, I did have time to go
for a walk along about a kilometre of Lyell Highway one evening with
great success. We found some elegant wallaby jawbones and another
very heavy jaw I guess belongs to a wombat. Feel free to correct me
if I am wrong.
There were plenty of vertebrae, including a sacrum,
lots of ribs, phalanges and so on. Many tiny pieces of
small animals, like the delicate discs between vertebrae.
We were
particularly pleased with the snake. It is destined to become a
necklace, with the vertebrae threaded on fine wire. Tourists may have
been a mite concerned seeing the Café Supervisor strolling home with
this lot.
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| Alas, poor Yorick. I photographed him, Horatio. |
We had intended heading
for the pub for our evening tipple, but it closed before we finished
rearranging and photographing our treasures. So we watched DVDs
instead. I never have time to do this at home, so I am really
enjoying catching up with some of the many vampire movies I have
missed.
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| What a bored artist did with my kneadable eraser. |
That's not a bored artist, only a very talented one could do something like that.
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