1 Colourful visual music (neither audible nor moving)

This photo shows 3 short stemmed flowers (they’d snapped) out of the long stemmed bunches from the Farmers Market.

2 Black and White Music (audible and with movement)

Here is a lovely example of moving art made from letters and other typographic symbols. The Nina Simone song is sweet in itself, and in Tamara Connolly’s delightful film she’s made visuals for the dreamy sound by synthesizing and animating the simple components. Love those dragonflies

3 Cacophony that shall become visual music

I am hesitant about pressing the ‘publish’ button and letting you see this piece of today’s creative lino reality!

I can see what needs to happen next. Like Leonardo I shall carve away that which is not the picture and reveal the picture. You can see there are the beginnings of a book at the bottom, and the rounded shapes for a cat at left. I think I’ll change the florally pattern. Sometimes pictures come from much planning and fine-tuning and other times may be formed from an as-yet unrefined collection of swirls, as in this case!

I WAS enjoying carving the grey “silk cut” lino as, even though today is chilly, the lino was allowing me to cut it very readily. But now: Oh dear – Time to stop cutting for the day! I just slipped with my lovely new sharp lino carving tools and made a small cut in my left thumb, now stoppered with a band-aid. Gee I will know about that next time I am trying to send a text message, won’t I?

I learned to spell cacophony today. The main reason I know what cacophony means is from reading Asterix comics when I was a school girl. Have you read it ever? Remember Cacofonix The Bard – the bad bard? Haha!

Thanks for coming by. Enjoy the season changing!
Meg

This post will be a brief one today – but with pictures! – as I am getting Christmas items ready for shopping both on the net, and live and bold in Adelaide! I am excited to let you know about some new things I am making…

Firstly, for online shopping: New Peace Dove t-shirt design at RedBubble. The tshirt is available in quite a few different, nice colours and is suitable for young and old, boys and girls!

I have another new product, too. It’s neither rocket science, nor an invention, but it is Very Handy.

Yes, my dears, Gift Tags! I am all a-flutter about these little taggies!

I am bagging them up in good old-fashioned dozens. That’s right, youngsters, 12 to a pack, for $5 Australian (+ $8 postage, free postage for orders over $45). The tags aren’t yet available at my Art Card shop online, but you can email me with how many packets you want and I can bill you by email with Paypal easily.

Looking forward to the next Live Bold List – with a watering can theme – how about that?

Take care, bold beauties,
Meg

My confession is this: I am not feeling very bold today! How can that be?
I have been getting the site nice and new, putting in a new tagline to acknowledge the art and soul boldness. Now that’s all done I get to write, and make pictures. Now the time has come I am in fact feeling a bit timid. So for now I guess I’ll just potter around here beneath the new banner and see how that feels.

Art stuff news: New art card designs! I previewed them yesterday at the Lets market, along with some of the new tshirts! I am so excited to be sharing new art!
The official launch is in about a fortnight at Goodwood Market in South Australian Living Artists (SALA) week.
I am uploading them and updating the card shop is as due haste as I can, too.

The first new picture I have for you in the blog is the Pears one.

pear trio printed and painted

How it came about: I was mesmerised by the 3 gorgeous colours of the fruit – nature tips its hat to traffic lights!? The composition is as if someone dropped them into an empty aquarium, or a clear squarish vase, and they fitted inside the clear walls. So not a true Still Life I don’t think, but an arrangement.
I will have this available as art cards. Do you think it would make a good t-shirt picture? (I am wary of women wearing it as a top getting comments about ‘nice pairs’.) Let me know what you think in the comments section below or on Facebook.

I am looking forward to the first of my new fortnightly features Live Bold Day list (I’m aiming for Tuesdays), so Live Bold Tuesday or Live Bold Weekday, if I get too random about the day!

Be great, be you,
Meg

I have a cool link for you, a visual quiz: “Can you pick the real Picasso?” I got them all right, I am both proud and relieved to tell you! Let me know how you go in the comments section, or on my Tangerine Meg Facebook page.

Hooray! I have new t-shirts available on Red Bubble! Butterfly Garden, Goblet Still Life and Still Life with bee fabric are now available as t-shirts. Time honoured favourites are still available as Ts too: Rainbow Lady and Rain Girl.

Joining them is this new/old, bold but softly coloured, sunflower design print! You too can have a memento by means of the magic of Print on Demand at Red Bubble. It was made by either a reduction block or 2 blocks. Let me know if you can fathom which it was. That’s not a quiz by the way – I just can’t remember, doh!

Take care of yourselves, dear petals,
Meg

I have a funny link for you, which will make more sense if you know a little of FaceBook. It’s as if the play Hamlet was recorded on FaceBook. Even if you only know a little of Hamlet, it is kinda cool.

Artwork awaits scanning, dearly beloveds, and awaits me revamping this very site! I am going to refresh word-based parts of the site with the help of Rebecca Leigh (freelance writer extraordinaire). As well as the 4 new lino pictures, I am considering offering serendipity card sets – mixed packs chosen by me, for those who find it hard to choose, but would like a stash of cards for the next few months. And some of the new stuff will be available as tshirts too. Lots of good thinking going on!

I shall leave you with another link that I have been meaning to give you for a while. It’s a blog post by Sonia Simone of Remarkable Communication, on how to beat a terrible horrible very bad mood in about an hour. I like it the way she describes a bad mood as burning up “…all your energy and (tying) up your mental bandwidth”. Sometimes it feels like that.

Take care,
Meg