Lotería/Life is a game of chance?
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| The bird I saw in Tasmania at the roadside rest stop |
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| Rest-stop in Tasmania, the fencepost was just to the right |
Weird Woolongong Skies
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| My lunch in Bega |
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Bega Cheese Heritage Centre |
I thought to myself that art and birdwatching were my therapy and how weird that the bird on that magnet looked like the bird I saw in Tasmania days ago, so I purchased the magnet, as well as another 3-D cow magnet and a cheese knife.
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| My 3-D Bega cow magnet (looks way better in real life) |
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| My Bega cheese knife |
I had been watching 'Babe' because I had just finished reading Magda Suzbanski's autobiography after buying it and her signing it last week for me.
Magda is one of the stars in the movie 'Babe', which was why I was watching it again, as I hadn't watched it in years, and wanted to see if there was anything synchromystical about the movie ... and was there ever?
But that might have to wait for another post.
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| Scenes from the movie 'Babe' |
I ended up finding a great little blog by a lady by the name of Kate Unsworth and when I scrolled down the blog I came to a post titled, 'Now is the Hour' with a picture of a cow that Kate was painting, and a quote by Deepak Chopra, “The best use of imagination is creativity the worst use of imagination is fear.“
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| A scene from the movie 'Babe' |
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| A scene from the movie 'Babe' |
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| The theme of this year's Dark Mofo event in Tasmania |
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| The studio that made the movie 'Babe':-) |
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| A scene from the movie 'Babe' |
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| A scene from the movie 'Babe' |
That's a quotable line - art, birds, and synchronicity are my therapy!
ReplyDeleteStumbled on your post when after you contacted me via my blog I googled scratchybirddesigns to see how easy it was to find me and my stuff was there but so was your post how cool is that. Whilst my art is a hobby at the moment. I truly do believe nature and birds are my therapy and one day hope to live the dream of having my own business. Thanks again for purchasing my magnet the stylised one is the male scarlet robin and the magnet with the nature is my therapy is the female. They visit me every winter and I adore them. Kath
ReplyDeleteFollow your he(art) Kath, because you seem to be right on track at the moment and those crows you paint are great.
ReplyDeleteI wrote s post called 'Is 2017 Gonna be a Year for the Birds?' about a 2017 Australian bird calendar I bought at my local post office, which features a lot of bird species I have had special encounters with and while I didn't write about it in that post, I just noticed that the bird for December 2017 is a Red-capped Robin.
I was wondering why artists don't take a bit of poetic licence with the robins and give them heart shaped chest marks.
I Googled around in Google images and couldn't find any artists painting heart shaped red marks on the birds.
I have never seen a red capped robin, would be awesome. I only draw/paint what I get photos of other wise I have to ask permission from photographer. There may be some stylised versions of the red cap out there. If I see one I will let you know. I shared this post to my FB page hope you don't mind. If you prefer I didn't I can take it down. cheers Kath
ReplyDeleteI've never noticed any in my life (and I've only seen that Robin in Tasmania, so far), but I just looked them up on Wikipedia and found out Red-capped Robins are native to Australia and their habitat range cover most, except the tropical top end of Australia, so I'll have to keep my eyes open and my camera ready in case one does fly into my life.
ReplyDeleteAnd feel free to share on FB.
Mine's a public blog, so I can't really stop anyone from sharing stuff that I write onto Facebook.