Studio Preston - Anna's Art

Shear Inspiration Update!

Joanne — Wed, 30 May 2007 02:32:01 +0000

WOW! Thanks to all of you how contributed, came, donated and most importantly shaved your heads – the Children’s Cancer Foundation have recieved $120,000 banked thanks to Shear Inspiration.

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Shear Inspiration

Joanne — Sun, 20 May 2007 02:19:58 +0000

I am so astonished at what passion can achieve . Last night was the culmination of months of work – the inspiration to raise funds and awareness for Children’s Cancer. Aim: 20 women shaving their heads. Aim: $250,000+ to fund another bone marrow transplant room in Singapore (it’s a hub for the region, survival rates are high). Aim: Significantly raise awareness for10,000 children in schools. The 21 women who shaved their heads are going out to schools, showing what you can do, that cancer is something we need to know about. I heard that 1 in 5 people will have direct experience of it in their lives.

Amazing. I helped Jacky – lots of moral support, late nights and ‘yes it can be done’ – so did lots of others. I also donated a set of 3 portraits (Rebecca as sample) to the Auction – and they raised $2,500! I’m awed.

Check out the website www.kidsforlife.com.sg/shear_inspiration.html for the video (and all the donors and sponsors) – the generosity of people and companies is truely wonderful.

For me, absolutely unforgetable – Shear Inspiration! Thank you Jacky!

Ned and I

Joanne — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:18:17 +0000

Ned Kelly – Sydney Nolan did the archetype. And when I was challenged to do a picture of me in a ‘well known’ painting… Ned abducting moi. Riding off.

This version is the illustrator one. I’ve also done one in pastel and pencil as part of exploring the affect of different mediums on an image.(Yes, I went blond for this one!)

Aflight!

Joanne — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:04:56 +0000

Wings settled or wings flying. I did about 7 designs for this before, somewhat peeved off with someone, I left a room. AH! Inspiration! Translucent, etheric wings, at the peak of the wing stroke, lifting, soaring. Orange.

So then the challenges was to find the materials and create them. Exhibited mid April.

(IKEA proved very useful – as did Spotlight for the organza. My thanks also to my early years of dressmaking!)

Mural, Music on the wall…

Joanne — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:30:30 +0000

Well the fairest of them all…… there we are, finishing it all off. A total object lesson on (1) get organised early – we got our colors sorted out up front and (2) quality of tools. Little things like safe ladders that allowed us to reach up the 3 meter.

Celebrating our success – lunch brough in as our last day was a school holiday so the canteen was closed.

I could, but won’t count how many meters of tape it took to execute this! I now appreciate the subtle qualities of good and bad masking tape.

At that time

Joanne — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:54:39 +0000

… I was also having a splurg… of emotions. I did three acrylics that were all about getting feelings and emotions out. Preferrably of me onto a canvas. What’s astonished me afterwards is how I can look at them and not immediately feel all that I was feeling when I painted them. And how, others looking at them, pick the dominant emotion that I was expressing.

Such a contrast to the structure and deliniation of the music series of the same time.

Prehaps I’ll get a photo of one and upload it.

Music

Joanne — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:51:15 +0000

While we were doing our mural (all 22 meters) I wondered what the idea might look like as a painting. This is the first of the explorations.

I was facinated as I expored combining color-ways, music sets and generally trying out what might work. How do the combinations affect the ‘blandness’ or ‘excitement’ of the musical score -or in this case, the painting?

Alice

Joanne — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:48:51 +0000

Branching out – I raided my photos of my mother. She was at the airport, waiting for me to fly back away. As a good mother, not wanting to appear that she missed me (but I suspect, really, she does).

It amazes me, the more I think about it, what we do (pretending) so that someone else will be ok. The brave faces we put on as we wave good-bye. ~wish me luck as you wave me goodbye, cheerio, here I go, on my way …~

Yes, she misses me (and at my tender age!) and I miss being near her too.
[And I'll do you another one when you send me a picture that you like!]

Rebecca

Joanne — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:36:25 +0000

Girls are so cute – then again – the hair is that much more of a challenge! Rebecca (Bekka) is my number one niece. She visited not long ago, and to make sure I remembered her, left lots of little stickers all over my house!

Sebastian

Joanne — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:27:20 +0000

On the other hand, my nephew Sebastian, is far more likely to watch what I am doing and want to do it himself!