Christmas and cartooning in Australia

I had a wonderful Christmas with my family. I hope you did also. We are enjoying wonderful summer weather, but Christmas wasn't as warm as it usually is here in Australia. Members of my family made these creations, which made the Christmas extra special. I love to see that there are many arty creative people in the family. I have been enjoying learning to draw Japanese manga and anime cartoon characters with a young fellow in the family.

We went to the Cartoon Bunker in Coffs Harbour today, where we learnt more about the history of cartooning in Australia, and we saw many original hand drawn cartoons.

Happy 2016 to you all. I am looking forward to doing a lot more art this year. To start off this new years resolution off, I am going to do some intensive nature drawing everyday for a week in January. I will pop some photos of the drawings later this month.

Open House Postcard Show at NERAM Armidale and EMSLA Exhibition at Coffs Harbour

There is an opening this evening at 6pm New England Art Museum Armidale NSW of an exhibition called 'Open House Postcard Show' that has three of my paintings on display. I will put some photos of them up on my blog soon. These small paintings will be on view until 21st Jan 2016.

In the meantime, I must let your know about the wonderful exhibition I saw recently at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW. It was the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (EMSLA) show for 2015. I would love to pop some images up for you but I could breach copyright if I were to do that. However, I recommend you have a look at: http://www.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/our-community/facilities-parks-and-places/regional-gallery/Pages/EMSLA.aspx.

The entry paintings were from artists from all over Australia, and it was judged by well known art critic John McDonald. It was a real treat, and well worth seeing, even if only on-line. I enjoyed viewing this strong exhibition.  I'd be very interested to hear what you think of both of the above exhibitions if you get the opportunity to see them.