Reminding me to be joyful…
Pencil illustration on beach artwork image.
www.cathleentarawhiti.co.nz New Years Day 08 / Raglan, New Zealand Featured in The Feature Fraternity / Thank you. Won the Outdoor Fun challenge in the That’s Entertainment group / Yay, thank you :)) Won the Happy Summer Sunshine Challenge in the DSLR Users group / Thanks for voting :)) Featured on Redbubbles homepage / Thank you :) 3000+ views / 50+ favouritings People/Portraiture HDR Photography Macro Photography Architecture Collaborations Skyscapes Animals/Birds/Insects Street Art Street Photography Everyday Objects Seascapes/Rivers/All Water Summer Photography Odd/Unusual Flowers/Plants/Trees Landscapes New Zealand Abstract Humour Black and White Photography
Sales of this Design? – 3 sales so far :) / / / Bosom Buddy is a mixed media production on canvas textured paper. / ink, pastel, acrylic, charcoal, pencil
I’ve taken a lot of lomo’s with my Lomo LC-A but this is my absolute favorite! Taken in Bulduri, close to Riga, Latvia Shot with Lomo LC-A — / featured in Toy Camera / featured on Redbubble homepage / — Used in The Lomography Calendar /
On a beach, a plastic bottle in hand, an aluminium factory behind and the next generation – just made me think a bit, plus the sheer attitude of my daughter :)
Here’s an old photo of my little girl converted to b&w..It was a hot summers evening with an approaching storm.
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other images in this octopus series
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model: the beautiful sdevarax / who is talented on eighter side of the camera
/ Half coloured image, thanks to gottheshot fellow bubbler and friend for the idea / Greeting Card / in Walnut frame with off white matt / The original drawing prior to adding colour in photoshop Blue Pools / from the “Connecting” series / Created on A3 cartridge paper acid free / a pencil drawing / coloured in photoshop Last night I was trying to think of an idea, or some inspiration for a new drawing, just before bedtime, my husband said blue pools, but i have idea what the context was lol That was enough for me, i thought immediately of blue eyes and a girl submerged in blue pools of water…... here she is ;)
Sales of this design? – 2 sales Sweethearts is a pencil drawing which i’ve coloured digitally.. / I hope you like :)
Thanks Pin Up Girl Nat / Thanks Andy and Yellow Flat 34. / one from the vault / series
stock purchased from stock sites / dreamstime, fotolia, / my own resources too – (i.e., textures and clouds) this image has been digitally watermarked – if stolen or used without my permission, can be tracked online
stock purchased – except for clouds and added sand texture— / those were mine. :) I’d like to start my day like this! :)
To have a good friend, take their hand… and walk on the beach. This is a story.. of best friends who happend to marry best friends who both have two year olds. The girl is my daughter Summer and her best of friends Matthew. Thank you Larissa for calling this to my attention. I have been away on vacation with limited internet access so I will be catching up soon. I just couldnt resist this shot as I was mulling through my picts of the week spent with friends and family. Taken in the Outer Banks of NC. WOW! Thank you all so much for the comments, and favs. This is a very special image to me. I’m thrilled so many others took the time to take a visit. I appreciate you all.
....remember when life was simple and even the smallest things amused you? The heart of a child beams with innocence and goodness. FEATURED on RB’s feature page – Art & Photography! – Aug. 09 / FEATURED in the group The Woman Photographer – Aug. 09 / FEATURED in the group The Retro Conglomerate – Sept. 09 / FEATURED in the group Freedom to Shine – Sept. 09 / TOP 10 CHALLENGE placement in the Good News Group – Sept. 09 / FEATURED in the group Dimensions – Sept. 09
Summer Breeze a beautiful poem by the same title by a dear friend of mine Anne Van Alkemade / Inspired by the song Summer Breeze / by Seals and Croft Also inspired by myself and my experience of having bugs and insects come to try and take up residence in my ears… scrabbling around in there, getting all comfy…while I’m going crazy…click beetles, houseflies and spiders so far have all tried this… lol This is a girl who has an affinity with nature, and as the summer breezes begin to blow here in Australia…....the animals are drawn to live in her hair thinking that it must be branches of a tree… yes, my hair’s that dry… :) I thought it a fitting one for summer, hope you like her… Pencil drawing took me about 3 hours / Digital colouring – 10 hours / Total time 13 hours
/ / / I was thinking about when I was around 9 years of age see me at 9 / / ....and I was reminiscing about our pet Blue-ringed Octopus we kept in the fishtank…. he was only tiny, but provided hours of entertainment…when he got riled up, he would put on a fantastic colour show for us…but it occurred to me how hard it must be to be a venomous creature… because you wouldn’t get many hugs, even if you wanted them! / / We spent a lot of our days at Shelley Beach, Port Macquarie and dad caught many strange and wonderful things, which we kept in our saltwater tanks… we also lived at the police lockup, so we had the human variety locked up beside us…and mum would cook meals for them, i would dance for them while they had their exercise break out on the front step, with nothing at all to stop them wandering off…cept me doing a little dance… i must have been riveting as none of them ever tried to escape…and we were kinda friends with the prisoners back in those days… some even sketched and drew pictures of myself and siblings, after getting my mum to go and buy them a little pack of coloured pencils… those were very interesting days :) / / Anyway, we have a bit of a history with capturing wild things in our family, a bit like Steve and Bindi I guess…. so here’s a little drawing, digitally painted, inspired by those days I remember with such fondness… a little girl in her bikini at the beach with a little ‘brunch coat’ as we used to call them over the top…..hosting a dear little Blue-ringed Octopus on her head.. / / There is a funny story I have to share with you too, which is possibly why i put the occy on her head… my father used to catch occy’s for fishing bait (with his bare hands) and stick ‘em in a bucket… his method of killing the poor darlings, was to bite their heads, in the eye area, i kid you not…he believed it the most humane way…. / / To cut the long of it short….. Dad was driving his little truck along after a catch in the Creek at Kingy…when he felt something very strange on the back of his head….the occy he’d caught had crawled out of the bucket….. and where do you think he was…? lol I do miss our menagerie of animals friends, back then i had no idea they were very unusual creatures to keep, including a baby crocodile, a turkey running around the courtyard… and all manner of other strange and wonderful things.
Nothing is impossible :)
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