Wombat mit schickem Hut

Spezial-Beitrag zu meiner Reihe "Tiere mit schicken Hüten" (mit Whiskey)

more about australian wildlife, today: The Koala

australian animal facts

Tonight: The Kookaburra!

far distance relationship

It's almost seven months now… I am not sure if this is something to be proud of...

little stuff

from my eighth and ninth sketchbook

Painting

Here some stuff from my painting classes: For the second project in my monday course we should pick a painting from the Gallery of NSW, do research on the painter and his work and make or our interpretation from that. I choose a very grey twilight painting of the Thames by James McNeill Whistler. 

In my colour class on tuesday the third project involves copying a (reproduction of) a painting with a lot of different beautiful colours and making colour notations on the mixing so we can produce a second painting with the same colour range. I went for sexy paradises...  (my second painting is not finished yet)

Hillstory

This is the first project from my "Urban Environment"-Class here at the College of Art in Sydney. The task was to pick a specific place in the CBD (City Buisness District) and do a work in regards to the historic context of it. While researching I stumbled over the Observatory and Observatory Hill. 

The Hill is the highest topografical point of Sydney and has been long the best place to overview the whole city. Although a lot of skyscrapers have been built in the last century you can still have a beautiful view to the west in the direction of Darling Harbour and on Sydney Harbour Bridge.

The first windmill in Sydney was built there, a flag-station to coordinate the movement of the ships was active till the 1920s and the Observatory, the oldest of its kind in Australia, built in 1858 was a significant place for navigation, shipping, meteorology, timekeeping and of course studying the stars seen from the Southern Hemisphere. It is a museum now and worth a visit.

I have not expected to end up doing a project with digital collage... but well... life.

Opera

evening in the park

 with palmtrees

and my bike

and cockatoos

D'awwww.

Thunderstorm

at Maitland Bay, New South Wales, Australia.