Year 3 of the 52-Week Illustration Challenge, Week 4

Week 4: Swimming

Collaged watercolour and cartridge papers, with Puffy Paint and watercolour highlights and shadows on a background of scrapbooking glitter paper. Based on several images found in a Google Image search.

Update:

Week 4: Swimming II

Black Sharpie cartoons on pearlescent sculptured paper, with salted watercolour highlights, collaged onto cartridge card.

Lime flavoured aftermath

And so... I made a wish for lime flavour this morning. The aftermath of last night's flash flooding in Penrith continues.

Wet, wet, wet

DAY 15

Halfway point! A little magic on a gloomy, wet night. Lights from my pool through a glass candle-holder.

First one in... is a leaf!

Mmmmmm. How does that happen? Somehow I should have known that the leaves would beat the humans into the newly-renovated pool, before it's even finished filling up. Now it'll probably rain.





Ah! Found a "Before & After" shot!


Pool in November 1999


Pool in November 2010

Ducking for cover

Making breakfast this morning, I happened to look out the window (to check the Kreepy Krauly wasn't doing its usual "stuck on the step' shtick) and noticed a pair of rather large ducks floating happily in my pool!

Where's the digital camera? Oh yeah, I broke it two weeks ago.

Where's the old SLR? Right here, but oh yeah, out of film as of last week.

Where's my mobile phone?

So I got back to the window, set the mobile phone's camera, raised my arms to snap a shot - and one of them noticed the movement through the corner of its eye.

Both ducks lifted out of the water like helicopters and they were off!

So, nothing more to share. Nothing to see. Move along...