Drawmo 12

Drawmo 12, originally uploaded by ellishutch.

Left hand drawing of a roller skate - done with willow charcoal. I've been really getting into the drawing - but have been totally slack on the posting. Anyway I'm posting them all to the flickr page, and a selection here - so go to my flickr page to see the lot. (I'm still behind on posting to flickr too - maybe I'll catch up by the end of the month...)

drawmo 7

drawmo 7, originally uploaded by ellishutch.

drawmo 6

drawmo 6, originally uploaded by ellishutch.

drawmo 5

drawmo 5, originally uploaded by ellishutch.

After a week of no internet access and a week of insane busyness I'm finally posting the drawings I've been doing. I'm going to post them in the order I drew them - but in batches since about 13 drawings in one go seems excessive...

drawmo 4

drawmo 4, originally uploaded by ellishutch.

And it's day 4 - I've managed to squeeze this drawing in before 11pm - yay! I'm still drawing with my left hand, this time using charcoal. I'm about to head up to Queensland for a week for work so I'm not sure if i'll be able to post every day. If not I'll keep drawing and post when I can.

Rollin' with the Adeladies

Last week Salami boy and I made the trek across to Adelaide at some hideous hour on Saturday morning to spend the weekend with the fabulous Barrelhouse Bessie and Mr W. Since Bessie rarely looks at my flickr page I'm posting some of the weekend highlights here purely for her edification. (Big thanks go out to Bessie and Mr W for being the hosts with the mostest, providing yummy food, a comfy bed, driving us 'round in the silver bullet and an introduction to roller derby skating.)

We went collecting hard rubbish in the silver bullet (Bessie and Mr W's grown up new car). Here's Salami boy with some very special Jamaican art found on the side of the road.




I helped Bessie build a merch booth for the Adelaide Roller Derby Halloween party and then went and found myself a brand new pair of roller skates. (I really wanted the cool black ones with the grey wheels, but alas there were none in my size).

The Halloween party at the Fad bar was a blast - I've got a sneaky video of Mr W doing some very imaginative dancing that I can't post here because it's too big - I'll be mailing it to Bessie to use as blackmail material.


Tuff Puff, Mr W and DJ Alice party on.

The blokes worked on the trailer in the shed on Sunday and Monday putting in windows and generally having shed time. I can't post that photo because Salami boy hates the way his hair looks in it.

I made self saucing chocolate pudding and on Monday night joined the Adeladies for my first ever roller derby training session, run by Bessie and the brilliant and sassy Smarty Pants. I stopped counting the number of times I fell over around 5 or 6 - all I can say is thank God for all those elbow, knee and wrist pads. I'm very proud to say I survived the entire two hours and that only my entire body hurt the next day.

drawmo 3

drawmo 3, originally uploaded by ellishutch.

Today's effort - weather balloon man, the left hand drawing thing is weird and tiring but good.

drawmo 2 - trashy scribble

trashy scribble, originally uploaded by ellishutch.

Some time after 11 last night while doodling and looking at trashy magazines I decided to set myself a specific task for drawmo. From now on I will submit only left handed drawings (I'm right handed). It's a way of loosening up and focusing more on looking than on the end result. I also like the look of the less 'in control' drawings. It makes me step out of my comfort zone and stops me repeating the stuff I already know. So from today onwards I will inflict some very wobbly lines on the internet...

cozy

cozy
Originally uploaded by ellishutch

Today is the first day of DrawMo - the month where a bunch of people from all over the place attempt to do a drawing every day. I've only just snuck in before midnight - but at least i did it!

Vote The Bastards Out

Need I say more?

take off

take off
Originally uploaded by ellishutch

I was inspired by Ampersandduck's post to check out the drawmo blog - it challenges members to do a drawing every day during the month of November. Certainly more achievable than growing a mo during Movember for those of us of the female persuasion. I did the little charcoal drawing above a few weeks ago and have done some scribbling since. I've often thought of setting up a drawing regimen for myself and have never quite made it - so - deep breath - this is a good motivation to get moving.

current online faves

make magazine
drawmo
The Ditty Bops
Space and culture
knitta please

and anything roller derby

Adeladies
Lone Star Rollergirls

All quiet

, originally uploaded by Kate&Ted.

Been off the computer for a bit lately - can't face turning it on at night after spending the entire day, nay week ... well last couple of months desk bound. The good news is I've seen lots of art - the Guggenheim show at the NGV, Pixar show at ACMI, a bunch of stuff in Canberra and have been spending an excessive amount of time eating.

One day I'll get around to blogging about these things. In the meantime check out the yellow .... I drove out to a conference in Galong, past Binalong about four weeks ago and had to stop the car to take this photo.

I love yellow....

Tea

Ahh - tea - I truly can't live without it. for the sake of my health I reduced my intake recently from - weeell - more than five, or six or maybe seven cups a day to no more than three. There were even a couple of days when I only had a single cup of tea...whew!

So I was thrilled to see this post on Momo's blog. Check it out

Too busy to blog

Red duette by Marie Hagerty, shown recently at Tim Olsen Gallery


The good thing is, it means I have a life. The bad thing is, there are heaps of things I want to write about and the longer I leave it the more I forget...

I spent last weekend in Sydney, enjoying the quiet streets and staying well away from anything connected to APEC. We had a delightful weekend catching up with mates and getting to see a bit of art.

We went to this exhibition which was a stunner. Marie Hagerty is a Canberra based painter and creates these very controlled and powerful abstract paintings with a limited palette of red, white, black, grey and a touch of orange.

The work pictured above Red duette is one of the images in the exhibition - the digital image goes nowhere near doing the real thing justice, but it gives you a bit of an idea. The trip to Sydney was worth it just to see these works.

the future is certain.ord

Ampersandduck posted this on her blog and I was so thrilled I had to post it here too. I went to artschool with this artist and love her strong graphic images.

Lonestar Rollergirls Banked Track Roller Derby

How I waste time on you tube

State of belonging

, originally uploaded by Kate&Ted.

I spent three hours on Saturday frantically making a collaborative work of art with four other NSW resident artists. The event, called State of Belonging was inspired by Iron Chef - with teams of artists competing to produce something amazing in a very short timeframe. Our team competed against the ACT team for the inaugural CLAW (Canberra Living Artists Week) Trophy. It was mad, fun and totally exhausting. The judges - HG Nelson, Deborah Clark and Jessica Good kept up a very engaging commentary throughout the event.

My team of Jono Everett, Tom Skeehan, Bronwen Sandland and Steven Holland cooked up a crazy tableau with the central object of a boat linking a whole bunch of symbols and images referencing kangaroo culling, the history of the Molonglo river, feral rats and linking into a theme of no - borders. Each of the teams had to bring a surprise mystery material to give to the other team, which then had to be included in their final piece. The ACT team gave us a bag full of cauliflowers...

So what do you do with a bag of cauliflowers?

...Well the team sheep eats some

and...

a couple become the bosom for the boats figurehead

aka. me

damn heavy things - cauliflowers

Pics of the event can be seen at CLAW and commentary will appear at glasscentralcanberra - i've only got shots of us setting up below:

You're cute...

...so I baked you a pony

from Futurama

down the coast

I spent last week in Bega installing a group exhibition Proximity at the regional gallery and had one of those great Woolies moments... where you run into someone completely unexpected in the supermarket. It's not such a surprise at home but a real buzz when it occurs away from home.

On Friday while stocking up on cheese and bikkies we ran into Li'l Odette and Ray Dee Ator from the Red Hot Poker Dots. They've recently been in the US so we weren't expecting to find them in Bega, though they have family down that way and are currently living in a caravan while they get ready to move to the US permanently. We had a very tasty breakfast of coffee and left over pizza outside their caravan while watching a video of Odette playing double bass while riding a horse and singing her sweet country tunes. She later pulled the same stunt with an increasingly grumpy water buffalo - this occurred somewhere in Queensland. You can see it on their website - under the title of Swampy Tonk Delux.

We then visited Sam the bass player who turned us on to some great you tube clips - Spade Cooley - the king of Western Swing and Willie Hall - the king of Jazz - check 'em out.

Swampy Tonk - love that Pokerdot style