Halloween in Wonderland

I have been working in Loren's 

lovely travelling art journal 

"Halloween in Wonderland"

 from the

  15 Artists, 15 Journals, 15 Months

 journal round robin 

running at

  Milliandes Art Community for Women.

Loren's theme was a bit tricky

 but I enjoyed working in it very much. 

Its been quite a while since I posted

 in my blog and so much has happened.

My family has moved away from my beloved river but our family home is still there and the kids and I will be regularly visiting. We just got back from a month up there and it was so good for my soul and the boys loved it as well.

I have been doing art in that time but I have had  technological issues that made blogging too hard, hopefully these are all sorted now and I will once again get into the habit of sharing my creative adventures.

creating with the boys

I have had so much 

computer dramas 

in the last half of this year.

I decided to post some of the pics 

from the kids art 

over the years.

MR13 did this one

a few years ago now

~Bird Boy~

as a self portrait / portrait of his

much loved lorikeet

Emerald.

done in pastels

Navy Blue

This was a joint effort with the kids

for Mr8's

3rd birthday <3

the kookaburra and the pirate ship above it, 

done by Mr13 (when he was 8)

Mr13 had an ongoing fascination

 with bushrangers and Australian artists

he did these aged 9

My little one did an amazing job

with these sculpted 

lorikeets

he was 5 or 6

Mr 8 did this bark hut when he was 6

and took out the tio award in the 

Grafton Show <3

Mr8 had a thing for vikings

and used to draw vikings just like this

all over the place.So I got him to draw his very best viking,

and we used it as a template.

He chose the papers and we cut them out

 assembled it all into this.