Vertical Garden.

A friend of mine lives in an old home with an interesting design feature in her garden. The neighbours erected a huge concrete wall right on the dividing boundary, so with a stroke of genius and a very special gardener, a vertical wall of Australian Native plants was constructed. The trough at the bottom holds the water that is drawn up to the top of the wall and released to slowly trickle through the plants and keep the garden watered. It has lights down in the water to illuminate it all at night, and the whole garden is spectacular. What a wonderful way to disguise an ugly concrete wall.

Lurking in the Vegetable garden

 It was only because the cauliflowers needed watering that I spotted this little beauty. The leaves had wilted and fallen back to reveal the head inside.

These sprouts look bigger in the photo than they are in reality. They are actually about half the size of a golf ball, so a way to go yet.

More Coffee Brewing.

 I'm not sure that these images will have any further use, but it was fun playing around with a lighthouse picture that I took last month. They have all been 'brewed' in Percolator, then further manipulated in Photoshop. I think that the one above has the most potential for future use.

Having More Fun.

       This picture above is my hexagon quilt See Here put through an iPad App called Percolate.

Here I've selected various circles of pattern from the design above, enlarged, copied and pasted.
                                              This could be called Many Worlds I think.

Amazing what you can do with Gauze.

 Here I've coloured the gauze digitally and over laid it onto various backgrounds that suggest oceans.

                                                      I see the gauze as foam on the water.

This one is over a previous work of mine done with silk paints on thin bars of silk wrapped around cardboard. I like the changing colours under the gauze as well as the slightly different colours of the gauze itself.

Still Playing with Gauze.

 Here is a thoroughly distorted piece of gauze, or so you would think.  However I went on to remove even more threads to give a much more open look.

Here is the printers tray with the cyanotype butterflies again, over laid with some very distressed gauze then the colours are inverted. Printers Tray

Gauze Playing

 I thought that I might have a play with a piece of gauze, manipulating the threads and distorting it.

The same photo inverted in Photoshop so that I can obtain a grid of black lines for the next step.

 

 Here I have used a photo of a glorious sunset seen from a plane window and I have laid the distorted gauze grid onto that.

Here I've enlarged the gauze quite a lot before overlaying it onto the sunset. The idea has potential I think.

Beautiful Banksia.

This spectacular banksia was growing in a plantation of mixed native species, but I'm sure that it is not native to this North Eastern part of Victoria.