Work in Progress

Tracey Potter

I have just come across the artwork of Tracey Potter, and I absolutely adore it. Potter is based in Queensland Australia, and has a lot of work for sale through her Facebook page. Below are my favourite images from an album on her page which documents the progress of her My Little Dear painting. There are more than 30 other albums of work to drool over when you have the time. I think I have found the inspiration I needed to make me pick up my paintbrush again.

Tracey Potter blog.
Tracey Potter Facebook artist page.

Day 6, 7 & 8 of 30

I've been useless at keeping up to date with this self-set challenge! I had a busy weekend, and have just been feeling really lazy and uninspired... sitting down to do artwork feels like a big chore, I end up rushing, and the results are less than desirable. Hopefully things will settle down later in the week. Our flights are now booked for our trip to Australia in November, so I'm mega excited! And after I finish this post, Charlie and I will be watching E1 of Dexter S5, which I have been dying with excitement over for months now. Without further ado...

• Your favourite hot drink
• Your earliest childhood memory

My favourite hot drink is a Mojo Coffee flat white. If I'm forced to get a flat white from anywhere else, I usually add a shot of hazelnut syrup, so that if their coffee is shit then it's still drinkable!

The childhood memory I consider to be my earliest is more of a feeling than a memory. I remember drawing a colourful rainbow, houses and a bear over two pages of my story writing exercise book at primary school. I remember running out of time to get the actual story written, and having the most horrible fear of my teacher coming to see my story and getting angry at me. I don't remember getting told off about it, so either I was worrying about nothing, or the teacher went so apeshit that I've suppressed the memory...

Painting babes

This painting is for sale on TradeMe here. It's painted on A5 watercolour paper. I'm a bit frustrated with it, because the scanner wont pick up all the tones and details... it looks so much prettier in "person"! Oh well, not too bothered either way; if it doesn't sell from this listing then I guess I have my first "fluff piece" for my future exhibition...

I'll update on my 30 Days of Interpretation tonight hopefully, otherwise I'll be three days behind... Eek.