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I know I haven’t been very good company lately. Too much with the mosaics; not enough with the talking. I’ve been at a craft show for four days. I’m talked out.
I’ll talk another day.
…there’s a lot to tell you…
Peter fly fishing in New Zealand.
I haven’t contributed to A Year of Colour for quite a while. It just got too hard while I was away. But I couldn’t miss out on Lavender! My favourite of these four photos is the one of the two lavender flower heads. I took it at the bach in Coromandel during one of those long New Zealand twilights. The light was fading fast but I love the way it made these flowers look.
Interesting name for Taupe 
Apart from my daughter’s cargo pants, these are glimpses of my sister’s studio walls and palette.
She cleans her brushes against the walls as she paints and has made the walls beautiful with the crumbs! Even her palette scrapings are beautiful…
Here are my Year of Color pics for the week. And, in keeping with the gray theme…
Yesterday the heat well and truly broke. On Saturday night we had a big electrical storm. Lots of spectacular lightning and thunder, but the rain was paltry. Even I could probably have dodged the raindrops. But yesterday afternoon the clouds built…
and got darker…
and darker…
and we got a cracker! So much rain that I started to worry about flooding and being unable to get out of town on Friday. The wind was screaming, the rain was horizontal and we (and a number of other people in town) discovered that our houses are not waterproof! We don’t have any damage at all (just water that poured under the front door and some leaking windows) but several buildings in town were de-roofed and there are broken trees everywhere.
But at least it’s cooler now.
Another beautiful colour! It was fun to reverse the colours on the pencil photo. Love the effect.
Flora’s Gift Update: Making good progress now. Yay. Will post photos soon. K.
A post box in Mt Isa, the fire truck that came to put out the fire in our fuse box (contained lots of lovely firefighters), performers in Kuranda (fantastic) and one of those road edge thingies.
Another colour that I love! Yum yum yum…
It’s so flat out here that, as the sun is setting, you can turn your back to it and watch the night rising! I love the stripey effect this has on the sky.
The galah photo is truly terrible (I don’t have a telephoto lens) but I really wanted to show you one of these amzing, annoying, enchanting parrots. We have huge flocks of them and they can make an extraordinary amount of noise. In the evenings they line up on the powerlines and shout at each other. Here are a couple more (equally dreadful) photos of galahs around town…
I was away the week we were supposed to do turquoise, but I was so disappointed to miss out on this gorgeous colour that I’m doing it now anyway! (especially now that I have a cool jellyfish shot to include!) This weeks colour is Tan (blech) - I’ll post that later in the week.
This isn’t a colour that features strongly in my life. I just don’t like it very much. It’s also rather difficult to photograph, I’ve just discovered - goes very dark. Bet you can’t guess what the bottom right one is… (I’ll tell you later in the week, because I can’t keep a secret. You know how the conversation goes:
Me: Guess what I got you for your birthday!
You: I’d rather wait and have a surprise on the day.
Me: No, go on, guess! You’ll NEVER guess right!
You: I’ll just wait for my birthday.
Me: I’ll give you a hint.
You: No, really I’d ra…
Me (screaming): IT’S A POGO STICK!!! AND IT”S PURPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
These ones were fun because, as you can see, I’ve played around with them. I enjoy abstract art very much, so this is my idea of a good time. Unfortunately, today I have to go to work, so they were done in twenty minutes including the photography! I might have a more leisurely attempt another day so that I improve on the balance.
It’s very interesting to see the different names that colours go by! I would not have called this crayon “Wisteria”, but maybe that’s the colour it comes out on paper as. Anyway, no words of wisdom/foolishness/otherwise today. I’ve had a disgusting head cold and fevers and such for the last few days, so I don’t feel very wordy or writey. Here are the pictures, instead.
This had to be the easiest colour yet! Some of my stash, some yarn that looks like seawed, part of my jester quilt and a palm leaf at the bottom of the stairs. Yum.
Orange was an easy colour for me! Top left, marigolds in a public garden bed. Top right, my brother holding an orange on Christmas Day (a story for another day). Bottom left, fire fighters after they had extinguished our burning switchboard on a very hot day last January! Bottom right, one of my favourite milk jugs from my little collection.
This is such a gorgeous colour! Under-utilised in my opinion…
The cluster of silk flowers is one of my favourite handbags, made by glueing the flowers all over a cheap and nasty bag with hot glue. Very fast and easy, but it is amazing how many flowers you need! They have to be really squashed tightly together to look good.
Bougainvilleas (top left) are one of the few flowering plants that grow very well out west. They don’t seem to need much water and can get to be huge. I don’t like them much - thorny and invasive.
Definitely some artistic license taken with this one! Chestnut is not the easiest of colours to find. The two wooden boxes are each a little redder than they have photographed and I still don’t have the software manipulation skills to really get things looking exactly the way I would like. I’m no photographer, that’s for sure! I like what I see through the lens, but I have ZERO interest in fiddling with the settings. Poor Peter has tried to explain f-stops and apertures and lord-knows-what-else SO many times. The man should really have been named Job. And he never gives up - just goes through it all over again…
Wow, this is so much fun! I’m driving my daughter nuts, though, because I have the camera permanently attached to my hand. This gorgeous lemony yellow was quite a challenge. Several things that I photographed looked this colour in the flesh but then looked quite orange on the computer. The painting is by my sister and the bottom right mystery thingy is an egg-cup.
Before I show you ANY of the cool photos I’ve been taking, answer me this - WHY AREN”T YOU TALKING TO ME????? I know you’re there. I’ve got the stats to prove it. It seems that when I went away on holiday you got the snitch with me and now I’m getting the silent treatment. Well, I’m going to be the bigger blogger and not pout anymore. Here are my White photos for A Year of Color (dang, I keep wanting to put a “u” in “colour” ). Thank you, Happy Things for this cool fun!
