Girl in Blue, and another scaly visitor
For an exhibition late last year I decided to go BIG. Having only ever worked small, painting one sq metre canvases was quite a challenge. I scaled up my Red Girl and then painted her mirror image in blue.
I enjoyed the large scale format so much that I have quite a few canvases (much bigger ones even!), stacked against the wall awaiting their appointment with the big brushes. Quite ironic when I consider I’m working on miniatures for admission to the Australian Miniature Society!
On a different subject altogether, we seem to be “blessed” with scaly visitors. Not the Pythons of the Far North this time, but something more sinister.
This is a Dugite (Pseudonaja affinis), which can grow up to 2m, and can be fatally venomous (they are of the Brown Snake family). I picked this fellow up out of the gutter, but he had already met an unfortunate end.
And no, those aren’t my hairy legs, they belong to Jez! I’ve buried the snake in the garden, and look forward to unearthing a nice clean specimen skeleton before winter.
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I like the girls but not the dugite, which I have never heard of before. You be careful.
Hey Diane,
Dugites are notorious for coming into and around homes, especially when bushland or vacant blocks have been cleared. A friend of mine had one stuck in her wire screen door, and a couple of times the cat has brought baby ones into the house.
“What’s the cat doing with a rubber snake?” the Man asked me once…….
Thanks for coming to look at my blog!
Your work is beautiful, I took a trip to your Etsy shop and thought I was looking at nature photos but saw they are watercolors. Wow! Beautiful and colorful.
The snake I’ll pass on though…:-)
Jacilyn
Bloody hell. I am not keen at all on the look of that snake.
Ta for the comments on my blog. Your lemon tree needs water, a feeding of citrus fertiliser and look for stink bugs attached to the underside of leaves. In the heat the stink bugs love to attack my lemon tree. You have to pull them off by hand. Wear sunnies (they squirt stinky stuff) and wear gardening gloves and clothes you won’t mind being smelly for a few washes. The bugs will need to be disposed of in a plastic bag and into the bin.
Hi Jacilyn.
Yep, we all try and pass on those types of slithery visitors! Thanks for the kind comments about my paintings.
Katie, my thoughts exactly when I saw the Dugite!
Thanks for the lemon tree advice. No stink bugs, but a severe calcium deficiency. Even though we live on beach sand, the calcium is not in a form that the tree can take up, so it’s had a lovely mineral shower that should perk it up - I’ll keep you updated.
Thanks for your visit Cindy. Really nice blog, I love your birds. These ladies are really bold, love the colours fantastic)
I love your blue and red girls! I’m sure they would look amazing haning side by side, especially being so large and vibrant, they would really be a showpiece in any home!