Welcome to the world of Openroad Footprint.
Meet Jema - black and white film photography
I enter lots of photographic competitions. They inspire me explore both technique and creativity with lots of different topics or themes, outside what I would class, my comfort zone. Some are free, but the majority, can be quite costly for a single entry, so they also really encourage you to think about both your composition and your editing proces...
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When peacocks strut their stuff!
One thing I definitely love photographing is... birds. And the peacock in 'full bloom' is always going to be of interest when any of us come across their courting, right!
To find one on full display in mating season can be rare however this lovely fellow was discovered while I was walking around the bushland at Cataract Gorge in Launceston. Their...
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Shaping the Perspective on Marie Island
Openroad Spotlight "Shaping the Perspective"
What an intriguing positioning of the trees, as they highlight the historic homestead! Marie Island, Tasmania. I must have photographed 100 different angles - and love about 90 of them! Not much of an exaggeration.:) Working in both colour and black and white, the mono seemed to give that little piece...
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Early Light Tranqulity in Mackay
Openroad Spotlight "Early Light Tranquility"
I LOVE sunrises... waking up to break in the new day. The hardest part of course is getting out of bed, but once you do, and arrive at a magical destination, it is all worth it! This image, in print, is one of my faves - the colors took over and were glorious with the reflections on the normally dir...
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Getting picked for a Blue Thumb art curation!
My photos and artwork have been with Bluethumb for close to two years now. It's always an exciting internal joy when someone else views your work, and pops it into their curation. 2022 saw me get placed into five curations - only the 'last 4' stay on our profile, though of course the pieces are still searchable.
As a photographer, I feel it's a li...
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First piece sold on Bluethumb
"CoVid isolation"
Only new to the 'art' scene, it's very exciting to sell an artwork via @bluethumbart with my expressionistic 'covid isolation' linocut piece. The second one heading off, this is editioned 3/6.
I feel it a strong feeling and depiction of what many of us had during the lockdowns.
1/6 headed to America, this one stays on Australia...
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Cutting up lino
The third day: Thursday. New skills about to hit! Expressionism and a linocut. Start. Designing!
Creating a coVid 19 base storyline to this one I think. Will see how the initial play goes, and make a decision for next week. But I have certainly has a great flow of brainstorming and feel I am even close to what I want as a final piece. Given how lo...
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Charcoal and mess
Day two: More charcoal. And... makeup something from the imagination! Whaaaaat haha. Well, black fingers was the days venture. Ain't no way to do this cleanly. Not grand results, but my what fun. Yes, I definitely love this medium greatly:)
As students, we are all starting to peek a little at others' work, this time next week, we'll all be besties...
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And the days of learning begin ...
An out of comfort zone journey, Ann Parrott: Day one: Cert 3 in Visual Arts "Painting".
Only day one: and WOAH! Talk about get straight into it. Pick an easel. Pick up some paint. Mix it. Play with it. Create various greys.
Pick up some charcoal. And boom. 'DRAW!' But how? Well, somehow fumbled through the day. Such a long way from photography, I...
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Stepping out of the comfort zone
CoVid19 has certainly made this an interesting year. Unable to travel anywhere, the first six months have been quite uneventful, and basically, for the whole world, our goal has been to just 'get through it'.
But, with no end in sight for the foreseeable future still, I feel I needed something to push myself out of the comfort zone (read RUT) I...
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ragdoll playfulness
AVAILABLE FOR HOUSESITTING (view my aussiehousesitters profile here for availability)
I have lived in Brisbane now for a few years and have never taken the opportunity to visit Toowoomba, so one of the first ads I saw the day I signed up to Aussiehousesitters was just a weekend sit in that area.
I was still living in my home till the end of M...
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