Category: Art
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Celebrating 103 years of a life being well lived.
Our dear friend Joyce, living independently, gardening and enjoying life. It is a privilege to have drawn the ‘road map’ of her life.©Monica G. Page 2025.
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Doodling – First Love.
Can you recall your first love? How old where you? Playing with mixed media, charcoal and graphite. ©Monica G. Page 2025.
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In Memory of ANZAC Mounted Rifles.
John is creating a collection of original drawings based on scenes from the up and coming documentary-drama due for release in July 2025 – Devils On Horses. It is a powerful, emotive movie exploring the relationship between man and horse during the First World War, in particular the Sinai-Palestine campaigns, and the backwash of war…
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Art For The Heart.
Healing of Grief is a process, and it affects us all in such variety of ways. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross wrote in her book On Death and Dying back in 1969, of the five stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. This collection of portraits I am creating is called Art For The Heart,…
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Doodling with charcoal.
Father Time and The Pause. Take your oar out of the water and go with the flow of life. All is unfolding perfectly.
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New Stuff
I have been busy drawing a variety of subjects this past month. Some from family photos, and some for a topic ‘Art For The Heart – Messages From Heaven’. I have drawn several portraits for friends who have been missing a loved one who is either in Heaven or living overseas. What a powerful experience…
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Doodles
In between graphite portraits I like to explore different mediums intuitively. It relaxes my mind and my eyes just letting my hands play with pastels. John has been playing with charcoal and has moved on to do some amazing collection of drawings from ‘Devils On Horses’ which I will share soon.
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A Window In Time No 6.
Another of the Mysterious Women. After a little research, I think this was taken around 1880’s. She is wearing Mourning attire. Death was a big business, social etiquette and especially photography around this subject was popular until WW1 when due to the amount of deaths and women needing to work in positions usually filled by…
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Doodles.
Drawing eyes fascinates me, a window to the soul. Drawing someone else’s eyes is quite intimate and often brings me to tears with the sense of connection. Although these people are not in the physical anymore, their presence remains when we tune in to it. Doodles are different, and doodling with other mediums is refreshing,…
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Window In Time No 5
This photo has a name! It was signed, ‘From your dear friend, ‘Islet’ and was addressed to Alma, John’s Grandmother, this would have been taken in the mid 1920’s. Although these are not my blood relations, the sense of connection I feel with them as I draw is fascinating. I receive prompts of how to…
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