Down Home Girl

I went and saw James Hunter last night at the Thornbury Theater, (who was amazing!) and was very excited to hear him preform one of my current fav songs of the minuet, Down Home Girl.

The song has been around. Done originally by Alvin Robinson, then The Rolling Stones and The Coasters, but most recently Old Crow Medicine Show; who gave it the gin-u-ine 'down home' southern treatment!





...and while we are on Old Crow Medicine Show...

All You Need Is Love

Call Grrrl!

Styled by Etta Curry
Clothes c/o Mamacita Bonnita

Once Upon A Time...

Styled by Etta Curry
Clothes c/o Mamacita Bonnita

Stick 'Em Up

Styled by Etta Curry
Clothes c/o Mamacita Bonnita

Let's Get Physical

Styled by Etta Curry

Modeled by Rittle-King

Clothes c/o Mamacita Bonnita

Gold & Chain

Actually known as Golden Chain; The dynamic Duo, playing an RSL near you!









Styled by Etta Curry
Clothes c/o Mamacita Bonnita

Blue Man Group

We decided to paint Chelsea blue for some images for her Hear The Bell's project, The very talented Gina took the shot's, and I styled.

Gina and I both feel a lot closer to Chelsea after painting her entire body blue...







Check out Bell's here

Check out Gina here

Since we were all dressed up and had nowhere to go, we decided to go and pay our good ol' friend Nellie a visit at her workplace in Brighton. This face still haunts her dreams...



We also shocked ALOT of fellow drivers. It's quite surprising we didn't cause an accedent...

The Noisettes!

So I'm totally obsessed with this song/ band!

The Noisettes - Never Forget You (Official Video) HQ
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Oil Pastel

I've done alot of these smallish oil stick/ pastel portraits. I usally give them to people, but I kept this one. It got a bit bent, so there in a bit of cracking through the middle, but what are you going to do?

Pencils

I really love a high pigment pencil!

I did this one in paints too, but the photo of this pencil drawing came out better...

Etta & Jess, Colored Pencil



Self Portrait

Painting

I didn't really get into painting until I left school... I think I liked the ease of oil pastels and sticks, not so much setting/ cleaning up, and not so messy. I have a pretty short attention span, so if something doesn't come together relatively quickly I give up. Its the Aries in me...

Although, when I wasn't so lazy, I really loved getting out the paint brushes. The mess was worth it!

This is a close up, the original shows Julia in a flower garden, but it was too reflective to get a good shot of the entire composition...

Julia, Oil Paint



Self Portrait, Acrylic



Fiona, Acrylic



Chelsea, Acrylic

From My Scetch Book

These are a few sketches from my book. I was very good at articulating what I was doing!

I did this picture of my friend Chelsea when we were on a VERY long train to Frankston.

Chelsea, Grey Lead Pencil



Self Portrait, Pen and Water Color



I cut this from my yr 9 School diary... I thought it was pretty funny!

More Self Portraits...

I did a series 3 big self portraits on poly styrene as a final for my Studio Art Drawing class. It took a lot of developmental work and I had to do alot of testing on the best paint/ technique/ photos ect to use for the finals. The actual finals ended up in the school cafe. I feel sorry for the customers who had to sit there trying to enjoy there meals and had me staring down at them....

These are some of the developments...

I ended up using a similar color/ image/ aesthetic to this one...only ALOT bigger!



Developmental

Self Portraits

I also did alot of self portraits. Self indulgent me...

These are some developmental oil pastel drawings from my book...



I look pretty anemic here with those yellow eyes! Note to self: Don't use yellow for initial outlines!