Drawing tendrils and veins for new art work

pen drawing and graphic design by Candice Herne preliminary stages of new work

I've been working on new art work to go with my "Postcards from blogland" series. I'm not sure how this will fit in yet or if it is finished. Looking at it now I can see a trunk coming out of it????

Tendrils and veins have been a linking thread through my work for a few years now. If you click here there is some artwork I did last year for a exhibition I did at Brunswick St Gallery in Melbourne a painting titled "Reclaim Regrowth" covered in pink embroidered leaf veins. A series I started about Nurture verses nature looking at natural order and how it relates to life and popular culture. I remember framing my work at school with drawings of vines with flowers, it seemed so natural and easy, I just did it with no thought. I'm taken back remembering this about myself. As humans and/or artist do we eventually come full circle and unconsciously go back to what feels natural about ourselves?

How to make your art project interactive and fun

Lately I have been asking myself, What do I want to do to have fun, laugh, smile, be child like, release my inhibitions? I am realising I am becoming an absolute bore so serious all the time. With a need to get things done, move forward, over achieve, and come up with plans and goals. Ironically for me, this is fun fun fun. A brain storming boot camp with a catchy introduction of "trade not aid, learn how to tie knots with the hill tribes of Africa" would be something that would just turn my beating heart into a ray of sunshine and turn those laugh lines into deep valleys. I'd really like to loosen up a bit. So this morning when I clicked on Passion Pages blog "the fun theory" I was over joyed to see the post. The inspiration is definitely one of fun and smiles. However for someone like me, it leads to more contemplative thought, on how I could make my art projects more fun and interactive. Maybe I should interact more and leave the how to's to someone else. ahhhh! Nope that would be no fun. I just can't help myself. Here's to having more fun!

Sacred Spaces

I had my niece Mad and her very good friend Missy here on the weekend. The girls had a sleep over in the caravan. It got me thinking about my teenage years and how anxious, they were and how I would have loved to have had a little caravan as my sacred space.

It's not you, it's me

We hardly see each other anymore

(photograph by Candice Herne)

I hope you understand, we just don't talk any more
(photograph by Candice Herne)


Last weekend my niece Mad came over, she was having the boyfriend blues so I got her to dress up and be my model.

Creative Urge

These sunshower photographs are making me want to paint again. Yeah! Right! Candy, pull back their girl. When do you think you'll have time to do that? Think again?? Just get your hats done for the exhibition. Calm down refocus. Breath in and out then wait.