art – sparking the flash

Shrimps Take to the Skies

October 10, 2017October 10, 2017Posted in Animals, Celebration, Tiny StuffTagged art, birthday, boots, Celebration, drawing, flying, holiday, illustration, plane, shrimp, sydney, tinystuffLeave a comment

i.e. my sister and I went to Sydney for the weekend in celebration of her birthday.

Birthday Shrimp

October 10, 2017October 10, 2017Posted in Animals, Celebration, Diary, Drawings, Greeting Cards, Tiny Stuff, watercolourTagged 30th birthday, art, birthday, cake, drawing, drawing on the right side of the brain, illustration, ocean, party, prawn, sea, sea horse, shrimp, Tiny Stuff, watercolourLeave a comment

Birthday card for my little sister. I call her shrimpy because she is small and shrimp-like.

Auntie’s 50th Birthday Card

June 12, 2017June 12, 2017Posted in Animals, Celebration, Greeting Cards, painting, Tiny Stuff, watercolourTagged art, auntie, aunty, birthday, card, dogs, drawing, greeting card, illustration, koh-i-noor, neef, painting, puppies, watercolourLeave a comment

WHERE IDEAS ALIGHT. A HAVEN FOR SHORT STORIES, SKETCHES AND OTHER TINY STUFF.

Self-Raising Flower

May 29, 2017Posted in Drawings, Greeting Cards, painting, People, The Creative Process, Tiny StuffTagged art, botany, brisbaneart, colour pencil, creative process, creativity, doodle, drawing, fairies, garden, graphite, growth, illustration, ink, inspiration, motivation, nature, photoshop, plants, play, staedtler, Tombow, triplus, typo, watercolourLeave a comment

WHERE IDEAS ALIGHT. A HAVEN FOR SHORT STORIES, SKETCHES AND OTHER TINY STUFF.

This idea came from a typo on my grocery list. Then I decided to play with it in different media; an artistic frenzy, if you will.

From left to right, top to bottom: ink, Prismacolor, Staedtler Triplus, watercolour, Photoshop, Staedtler Triplus/Tombow.

Out and About

May 15, 2017May 15, 2017Posted in Animals, Drawings, Non-fiction, painting, People, The Creative Process, watercolourTagged art, beer, Brisbane, brisbaneart, cafe, dentist, dialogue, dogs, drawing, illustration, journal, Lynda Barry, observations, qag, qag cafe, queensland art gallery, syllabus, tinystuff, watercolor, watercolourLeave a comment

What I’ve been seeing; what I’ve been hearing.

Flick the Switch

April 24, 2017April 24, 2017Posted in Drawings, The Creative Process, Tiny StuffTagged art, beverages, boiling, coffee, creativity, daily, ideas, illustration, incubating, jug, kettle, practice, process, rituals, tea, The Creative Process, the next step, tinystuff, whitelinespaper, writingLeave a comment

The Master Class

April 18, 2017April 18, 2017Posted in Audio, flash fiction, People, Publications, Tiny StuffTagged art, Audio, audiobook, baker, bakery, baking, cake, cakes, cartoon, chocolate, cooking, cupcake, easter, evil, feminists, fiction, flash fiction, humour, illustration, lessons, listening, patisserie, story, thriller, tinystuff, womenLeave a comment

Feel like one last sweet treat to farewell Easter?

Try listening to my short story, The Master Class, read by Holly Myers, as part of Quart Short Literary Reading Nights.

Something is not quite right at this bakery…

Cycling

April 10, 2017April 10, 2017Posted in The Creative Process, Tiny Stuff, watercolourTagged art, creativity, cycling, drawing, feedback, ideas, inspiration, painting, recycling, reflections, thecreativeprocess, thoughts, tinystuff, watercolor, watercolour, weather, writingLeave a comment

No Velociraptors Allowed

March 20, 2017March 20, 2017Posted in Animals, Tiny StuffTagged art, creativity, dinosaur, doitfortheprocess, drawing, illustration, inspire, motivation, thecreativeprocess, tinystuff, tyrannosaurus, velociraptorLeave a comment

Whatever I Want

February 27, 2017February 27, 2017Posted in Diary, People, Tiny StuffTagged art, bossy, cartoon, childhood, classroom, demanding, Diary, drawing, illustration, ink, kids, kindergarten, Non-fiction, obnoxious, school, tinystuffLeave a comment

This piece of tinystuff is a flashback from my childhood.

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