52-Week Illustration Challenge, Week 6

Week 6: Machinery

This is a mixed-media collage, with black card, gold foil crepe paper, plastic netting from an onion bag, adhesive plastic "jewels", and white laser glitter. Below:Same artwork, under different lighting.

Wet, wet, wet

DAY 15

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

Let there be light!

Kitchen lights illuminate a white candle.

Fascinating facts you probably didn't know about me

* I once played Terry Serio's mother in a musical.

* I was once invited to have dinner in a flat at the top of the "Number 96" building in Woollahra. (ie. Vera's flat.) On the way out, I couldn't help myself; I mimed racing down the stairs, pretending to pound on the doors of all the other flats to warn, "Bomb in the building! Everybody out! Bomb in the building! Everybody out!"

* the Arncliffe house where I grew up, for my first thirteen years, used to be the family home of stage comedienne Sadie Gale, wife of the infamous Roy "Mo" Rene.

* my paternal grandmother and I once met a real live dragon - and no one else in the family believed us.

* I was once a catwalk model in a 1987 charity fundraiser for the annual "Queen of Bankstown Quest". The first thing people ask if I mention it is, "So, did you win?"


Yesterday's pic: Not a dragon, sadly.


Today's pic: Not a dragon, sadly.

Last-minute photo, again

Closeup study of mushroom LED bedside table light.

Photo roundup!

On the way to the Capitol Theatre, in Sydney's CBD, to see "Wicked". This jacaranda tree, in full bloom, created the most bizarre optical illusion against the azure blue sky, but the flowers have photographed much darker than I'd hoped. Still pretty, though. 24 October 2009.


Kitchen light. 25 October 2009.


My Wollemi Pine is shooting new growth! 26 October 2009.


"Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed!" Toy Batmobile painting by Nick Stathopoulos at the opening of his exhibition "Toy Porn", at NG Art Gallery, Chippendale. The exhibition was opened by David Stratton, of TV's "The Movie Show". 27 October 2009.


Realisation! It's almost midnight again. 28 October 2009.


I swear I had nothing to with this. A class of Year 1 kids were making a life-size chalk drawing of a dinosaur on the playground today - and were asked to show what he'd eaten. Amongst the pterodactyls and smaller dinosaurs was this... Andorian. 29 October 2009.


I have to restock this spinning rack of animal books every day. 30 October 2009.

Three in one, 'cos I almost forgot!

Eerie battery-operated "mushroom" lamps from Officeworks. 21 October 2009.


View from the train, heading out of Penrith, bound for the CBD. 22 October 2009.


"When Nero met Ilia's Daddy"

Coincidentally, my exclusive Hallmark Ilia Probe Christmas ornament turned up on the same day as the comic in which Nero the Romulan met V'ger, of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture". 23 October 2009.

Last week's photo roundup

Still life. 16 June 2009.


Jack vanishing under the bed, just before midnight.
In a few minutes, after "lights out", he'll be
sneaking under the doona. 17 June 2009.


Window display in Sydney's CBD, celebrating 60 years
of Onitsuka Tiger sneakers. 18 June 2009.


Miniature glitter lamp in bathroom. 19 June 2009.


Grass bunny in a bowl. 20 June 2009.