Some more Art in the Park work I have left over - 'Ruru in a Tree' (detail) Acrylic and pencil on cotton, in a black shadowbox frame

GIVEAWAY

Well, I'm having my first giveaway!!!!
So, all you need to do is to sign up to my blog here
and/or go to http://www.facebook.com/ChilligirlTash 'Like' my page and/or leave a comment if you want to win a Chilligirl handmade brooch of your choosing (from the current stock at end of giveaway).  Winners will be drawn in old school style (out of a hat!) on 6th April 2012 in one months time....  Good luck!!
Tash

Fundraising Project

I have been asked to do a painting for the Left Bank Gallery's Canvas Fundraising Project which they hold every year in July, to keep the Gallery running as it is pretty much self-funded.  So watch this space!  Thinking I might do some more embroidered paintings as they are fun and a little bit different, and people seem to like them!
Tash

Art in the Park Weekend

Well, here are a few pics from my stall at Art in the Park in Shantytown, (Greymouth, West Coast NZ) over the weekend. Sadly no brooches sold but that gives me lots of stock for our Okarito Market Day in a few weekends, and possibly even the Franz Josef Gala Day the weekend before. Sold lots of cards which were of my Kokako drawing (see a few blogs ago...)  and sold the original Kokako drawing too!!

Using my Grans walnut cutlery box for displaying my brooches and patches(top, and i think that's what it is) and my late Nanas suitcase for more patches and cards.

This embroidered painting 'Thistle Field' also sold.  I would love to do some more like this...  Inspiration came from up the road where I walk the dog and kids, there are hundreds of beautiful purple thistles as the mower hasn't been all summer.  They are surrounded by yellow sandy coloured grass as it's been so dry over here (in the rainforest!) and as everyone else in the country has been having a terrible summer, we have been rocking it..  So the background grasses and blue sky are painting onto cotton, and then the thistles are embroidered on top.  Everyone loved them which was awesome and encouraging!