My name is Joanne Gardner. I am based in Kerikeri and have many family connections in Kaitaia, north. Have have been painting for the last 6 years and have just finished my first year of my Bachelor of Applied Arts. I am delighted to have the opportunity to have the whole month of January 2010 …
The year is just whizzing by and I have found myself up to my eyeballs in research…lol…Art course…what did I expect! I have found this really great guy…love his work. Mr Jack Unruh…he does the best line and colour drawings…very accomplished man. Check him out, I found his work in the National Geographic to start …
Always In Your Heart… There are people in my life that will always have a place in my heart…they are precious people that have changed my life for ever… This tree glows with Love Light…just like my heart… Beneath the tree is Gesso…Gesso gives the extra texture that adds movement and branches…surprisingly, the patterns I …
Well, I did it…I am working from home. This will hopefully allow more time to paint but so far all I have done is catch up on 9 months of accounting that has been carefully saved for me since I went and worked of someone else…there you go… Stark Reality strikes again….I think that this …
Yeah Right!!!!! I have been trying all morning to edit photos of my paintings for the Gallery only to find that downloading a nice new program was the easy bit… Technology has a way of going out of date before your even really begin. The new program down loaded fine but then when I went …
I started with 2 colours and white…a paint shaper and nothing in particular to paint… Slowly the background turned into a butterfly that transformed into a fairy which then morphed into a purple and white flower and as if by magic my mermaid appeared…her face still covered in water…she was really quiet lovely….for an Ice …
Yesterday I had a wonderfully inspirational day… It helps selling two paintings and see someone else excited about my work…totally inspiring. Inspiration and support came from all the great people in my life who have cheered for me even when I was stuck and had forgotten to cheer for myself….THANK YOU. My sister came for …
I had the best fun painting this Underwater scene….with memory’s of Mary’s fabulous painting and a love of the sea my blank canvas took a brand new shape! There was purple everywhere…it is such a consuming colour…deep rich and very vibrant. I enjoyed this one so much, the coral has many, many hearts…fun. 🙂 Jo
Yay, I have paid for my next workshop and I have bought 3 more canvas’s to create works of art on… This is often where I get stuck. Suddenly all the ideas I had for my next work escape and leave me staring at my still blank canvas… So…here’s one…the next time you see it …
In my life there was a very special lady….Sharon…my Granny looked after Sharon until Granny died then Rita looked after her…she was always in my life apart from about 6 years when I lost contact with her when Granny died…and by then she had a wonderful and different life with Rita…Rita is one of God’s angels…very …
People ask me how I manage to fit painting into my already busy life…I work fulltime, have 3 wonderful children, my husband and I own Deepweb.co .nz, a web design company, I write poetry, I walk as a hobby, I practice Taekwon-do and last but not lest….I paint….actually I do heaps of other stuff too. …
It is time my friends to paint from the heart using all my new found freedom….so with that in mind and no plan what so ever….this is what I created. Please have a go at painting yourself…it is so relaxing and renewing…I can’t express enough what a difference it makes to me. Failing that let …
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