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Happy New Year everyone,  hope your heads are not pounding too much. Mine is just fine only had 3 beers.  I am showing you a couple more of my Creations. When I drew and painted this Rabbit I had Watership Down in my head, the amazing movie that touched my heart completely. This cute little fellow came to mind as well, I think rabbits are the cutest little fury babies and I love thir adorable eyes When I was a child I had several toys  Dolls, Teddies, and other stuff. But at 63 I still have Teddies They are almost alive to me, each one has its own cutness and personality that I can not ignore. I still have my original Teddie he is a Panda and he use to play music the winder was on the back but he doesn't play any more.  Cats are amazing creatures and they are seen everywhere and if you have never owned one you are sadly missing out. Snail also have my heart they are amaing little creatures the way they carry there house on their back. The caterpilla
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Hi, I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. These were done some time ago for an Exhibition in 2006 when I completed a Bachelor in Fine Art at Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga NSW The theme for this Exhibition was Lights and Shapes of the City painted in oil paint on canvas.  taymill@hotmail.com $1200 each

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Cat City 2017 This Image l painted a little while ago. My youngest daughter loves cats so when she saw it, it was hers. It now is framed and sits up on her wall along with a few other pieces of my work. You Frighten Me I painted this in acrylic 2013 on canvas Abstract This another I painted in watercolor inside my Journal 2017 Excuse Me This another in my journal painted this year 2017
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Today's female Australian artists is  Tracey Moffatt is an Indigenous woman who was born and educated in Brisbane, Queensland. She graduated from the Queensland College of Art with a degree in visual communication in 1982. Best known for her work in photography and video, she has exhibited in galleries nationally and abroad. After graduating from college, she moved to Sydney, later dividing her time between Sydney and New York. She began her career as an experimental filmmaker and producer of music videos and continued making films after establishing herself as a photographer. In 2004, she was described as one of 'the most famous and admired Australian [artists] on the international scene'. (Nelson) http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0772b.htm Over the last 25 years Moffatt has produced a cohesive body of work, from her celebrated 1989 series  Something More  to the more recent  Fourth , 2001. Each series devolves upon an unwritten narrative – a story is impl
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Christian Marjory Emily Carlyle Waller (1894-1954),  Christian  was born on 2 August 1894 at Castlemaine, Victoria, the fifth daughter and youngest of seven children of William Edward Yandell (d.1899), a Victorian-born plasterer, and his wife Emily, née James, who came from England. Christian began her art studies in 1905 under Carl Steiner at the Castlemaine School of Mines and was later taught by Hugh Fegan at the Bendigo School of Mines. She exhibited her work at the Bendigo Art Gallery and the local Masonic Hall in 1909, and in Melbourne next year. The family moved in 1910 to Melbourne where Christian attended the National Gallery schools.  She studied under  Frederick McCubbin  and  Bernard Hall , won several student prizes.  During the 1920s Christian Waller became a leading book illustrator, winning acclaim as the first Australian artist to illustrate  Alice in Wonderland  (1924).  Christian signed and exhibited her work under her maiden name until 1930, but thereafter used he
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Today we are looking at Elizabeth Eaton Burton (1869–1937) was an American artist and designer whose work typified the Arts and Crafts style in southern California . Elizabeth was born in Paris, France, in 1869, to Charles Frederick Eaton and Helen Justice Mitchell. Her father was an artist and designer who worked in such media as metal, glass, and leather. He taught her drawing and the rudiments of other media, which turned out to be almost the only art training she ever received. She attended boarding school in England and Germany in 1885–86. [2] However, both Elizabeth and her mother suffered from health issues, so the family moved first to Nice and then, when Elizabeth was around 17, Burton began her career by exhibiting work at art shows and craft fairs in southern California. As her work developed, the range of media she worked in expanded until it embraced metalwork, stained glass, bookbinding, and tooled leather, as well as print media (woodcuts) and water colour. Many of
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Hi Every one, Have been so busy studying and so I thought I would add another artist while I am thinking what I need to do for assignments in Photography/Imaging. Have to take 28 photos hardly started. So back to the artist for the night, Sybil Craig Sybil Mary Frances Craig (1901-1989), artist , was born on 18 November 1901 at Southgate, London, only child of Australian-born parents Matthew Francis Craig, architect and surveyor, and his wife Winifred Frances, née Major.    The family returned to Melbourne and Sybil was educated at a small St Kilda school. She recalled a childhood in a suburban bohemian household’ frequented by musicians and artists.  The Craigs resided first at Brighton, and after 1914 at Caulfield, in a house designed by Sybil’s father, which remained her home for the rest of her life. In 1920 she began private art tuition with  John Shirlow . She then studied (1924-31) at the National Gallery of Victoria’s school of painting. He was a foundation member of the N
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I am a young woman who grew up in a rural setting and gained a love for the countryside  surrounding our farm near Westbury, in Northern Tasmania. Today I have found Harpist and Watercolour Artist Joanne Mitchelson    based in Westbury where she grew up. Joanne has painted in the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia. Joanne specialise in Tasmanian Water Colours and focus on Tasmanian Land, Sea and Mountains  scenes. My paintings include Tasmania's South East Coast, East Coast beaches, Farmland, Village views and the rugged Walls of Jerusalem in our alpine are Joanne  as young woman grew up in a rural setting and gained a love for the countryside  surrounding her farm near Westbury, in Northern Tasmania. Her paintings include Tasmania's South East Coast, East Coast beaches, Farmland, Village views and the rugged Walls of Jerusalem in the alpine area.  http://www.taswatercolour.com.au/about.htm
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Suor Plautilla Nelli (1523-1588) was born into a noble Florentine family. She entered the convent of Santa Caterina di Siena in Florence (which taught painting and sculpting of terracotta figures) in 1538, at the age of 14, and eventually became its prioress, several times.   The convent, founded by Camilla Bartolini Rucellai in 1496, was ‘run’ by the friars of San Marco, the most famous friar being Savonarola. The convent (now destroyed), located in Piazza San Marco, was supposedly annexed into the Galleria dell’Accademia in 1853 and was briefly part of the Accademia delle Belle Arti. In her time she was widely praised and received many important commissions, but today, only four of her paintings have been authenticated.  The Lamentation with Saints  in the Refectory of San Marco Museum is her most famous public work, which expresses a rare raw emotional grief of Christ’s death, depicted through the red eyes and visible tears of the figures. Her  Last Supper  originally hung in th
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Tracey Moffatt (born 1960, Brisbane, Australia) is one of Australia's leading contemporary artists and, our most successful artist internationally.  Tracey has had  50 s olo exhibitions of her work in Europe, the USA and Australia.  Highly regarded for her formal and stylistic experimentation in film, photography and video, and described as a director of photo-narratives, Moffatt's highly stylised photographs often reference the history of art and photography, as well as her own childhood memories and fantasies and explore issues of race, gender, sexuality and identity. (MCA). Absolutely love this womans work. http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/collections/documents/t_moffatt.pdf https://artblart.com/2016/04/03/exhibition-the-world-is-beautiful-at-the-national-gallery-of-australia-canberra/ https://www.google.com.au/search?q=tracey+moffatt+artwork&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj0scWR3aXTAhXBUbwKHS-XAW0Q_AUIBigB&biw=1105&bih=611
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Reg Mombassa:   born in New Zealand in 1951, immigrated to Australia with his family in 1969. Attended the National Art School, Sydney 1969-70. Returned to art school in 1975 and obtained his diploma of painting in 1977. Formed rock band Mental as Anything in 1976 with four other art students. They became a popular band and have released 11 albums and 27 singles, with 20 entering the top forty. They have toured in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, England, Europe, the United States and Asia.His first painting exhibition was held at Watters Gallery, Sydney in 1975. He has had one man shows at Watter’s in 1986, 91, 93, 95, 98, 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007. 

A survey show of Reg’s artwork spanning the last thirty years or so opened at the S.H. Ervin in January 2007. The show was opened by the actor Jack Thompson. He has worked closely with Mambo Graphics since 1986 designing t-shirts and posters. The Ray Hughes gallery in Sydney has held two Mambo exhibitions in 1990 and 93 His ‘Real Wil