SUNDAY BEST #484 - ART EXHIBITION

Welcome to the meme, "My Sunday Best", which is a photographic and creative meme that allows you to showcase your talents in imaging. Every Sunday, you can post here showing an image you have created using your camera, (and/or) image processing software, and/or painting and drawing in the conventional way and have scanned in.
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A photo from a current exhibition where four of my latest paintings are exhibited (you can see two of them on the left), as well as 40 small canvases. The Exhibition is on until June 14th, at the Gallery Unbound, 497 High St, Northcote VIC 3070 Australia, and my works can be found here.

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Last week, I liked Jim's photo of mobile sculptures from Sutherland, Sydney. More of his photos can be found here.

JIGSAW PUZZLING

The Art and Fable Puzzle Co - @artandfablepuzzles - in the USA have produced two great quality 1000 piece jigsaw puzzles based on my paintings. You can buy them online and they are also available in Australia in several shops (eg: Mind Connect). They make great gifts for the puzzlers in your life!

This post is part of the Mosaic Monday meme,

and also part of the Seasons meme,

and also part of the Wordless Wednesday meme,
and also part of the Nature Notes meme,
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CYCLING

This post is part of the Mosaic Monday meme,
and also part of the Seasons meme.

SUNDAY BEST #410 - SEASON'S GREETINGS!

Welcome to the meme, "My Sunday Best", which is a photographic and creative meme that allows you to showcase your talents in imaging. Every Sunday, you can post here showing an image you have created using your camera, (and/or) image processing software, and/or painting and drawing in the conventional way and have scanned in.

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4) Visit other posters' blogs and be amazed with their creativity.

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Last week, Csuhpat1 in the USA posted shots of a festive San Francisco. Please visit his blog for more photos.

BEST WISHES FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON, MAY YOU HAVE PEACE AND HAPPINESS CLOSE TO THOSE YOU LOVE.

SUNDAY BEST #408 - IN THE CLOISTERS

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An architectural embellishment in the cloisters of the University of Melbourne's Old Law Quadrangle.

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Last week, Rupam Sarma in India posted this wonderful B&W image. Please visit his blog for more great shots.

SUNDAY BEST #402 - VANDALISM

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Italian artist Paola de Manincor created some lovely murals in Melbourne, before she died in 2011. This is on a garden wall in a Brunswick church. Vandals have defaced it in the most shameless and mindless way.

Such a great pity to see how our values as a society are changing and to see that the attitude of: "If I can't create it, watch me destroy it" is becoming not only commonplace, but grotesquely acceptable. You can see the photos of the original mural I took in 2014 here.

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Last week, Rupam Sarma in India showcased this lovely B&W image. Please visit his page for more great shots.

SUNDAY BEST #383 - AT THE GALLERY

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Nina Sanadze's "Call to Peace, Anatomy of the Dream", exhibited at the The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square in Melbourne. Sanadze, a Georgian artist residing in Australia since 1996 is making an anti-war statement, using sculptures and reimaginings of classical forms in various stages of construction, completion and/or deconstruction.

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Last week, Roentare in Melbourne shared this photo from his trip to New Zealand. Please visit his blog for more great shots.

SUNDAY BEST #381 - ART LOVERS

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Admiring the art at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.

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Last week, Roentare in Melbourne shared this marvellous photo from Cape Shanck in Victoria. Please visit his blog for more wonderful photography.

SUNDAY BEST #351 - GALLERY

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At the Booroondara Council Gallery.

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Last week, Linda in Virginia posted some great shots of a farm and its round barn. Please visit her blog for more photos.

SUNDAY BEST #326 - SCULPTURE

Welcome to the meme, "My Sunday Best", which is a photographic and creative meme that allows you to showcase your talents in imaging. Every Sunday, you can post here showing an image you have created using your camera, (and/or) image processing software, and/or painting and drawing in the conventional way and have scanned in.

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"The Nest"  is a sculpture in the Darebin Parklands, which was made by artists David Bell and Gary Tippett from recycled materials. It is a $75,000 public art sculpture installed in October 2012 in Darebin Parklands and has divided residents, with some saying the egg-shaped work looks out of place in bushland. The artwork itself has been praised by residents, but some have  criticised the location chosen.

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Last week, Kwarkito in Paris, France, posted this wonderful, meditative and allegoric photo. Please visit his blog for more interesting photos and posts.

FLOWER PAINTING

One of my flower compositions: "Summer Garden" - mixed media on canvas. You can view more of my art here: https://www.instagram.com/jammysevenk/

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SPRING FLOWERS

One of my drawings in oil pastels showing Spring flowers in our garden. For more of my art, visit my Instagram account: @jammysevenk

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WIRY EGG

Having a bit of fun with some lengths of rusty wire and stones I found on a walk. I wondered if cast iron ducks lay wiry eggs? 

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SUNDAY BEST #243 - BUT IS IT ART?

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The theme is of your own choosing, so post on any subject you desire.

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Last week, Emille in the USA posted some photos including a photo of her striking painting seen below. Please visit her pages for more interesting images.

SUNDAY BEST #229 - LACEWORK

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Victorian cast iron lacework adorning the porch of an old house.

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Last week, Taken for Granted in USA highlighted some beautiful photos he'd taken during a lunar eclipse. Check out his site for details.

SUNDAY BEST #227 - ROCKS

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These are some trompe l'oeil rocks that I have painted on canvas using the acrylic pouring technique, with subsequent overpainting. You can see more of my art on Instagram: @jammysevenk.

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Last week, Betty in New Zealand posted some great photos of a park/garden she visited. Look at her blog for more wonderful photos.

MY SUNDAY BEST MEME #176 - ALIEN HOME

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This is an image I created in a computer program called 'Mojoworld', which is a graphics program where one may create graphic constructions of planets according to parameters that are inputted, and then zoom in on views of the surface, visible in a 3D rendering. The planet here I've called Cyanea and the huge moon hovering in the horizon is Rosea.

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Last week, Betty in New Zealand showed us some beautiful photos of her neck of the woods. I loved this photo. Please visit her blog for more beautiful images.

FIREWHEELS

Stenocarpus sinuatus, known as the Firewheel Tree is an Australian rainforest tree in the Proteaceae family. The range of natural distribution is in various rainforest types from the Nambucca River (30° S) in New South Wales to the Atherton Tableland (17° S) in tropical Queensland. However, Stenocarpus sinuatus is widely planted as an ornamental tree in other parts of Australia and in different parts of the world. Other common names include White Beefwood, Queensland Firewheel Tree, Tulip Flower and White Silky Oak

It is a medium to large tree, up to 40 metres tall and 75 cm in trunk diameter. The bark is greyish brown, not smooth and irregular. The base of the cylindrical trunk is flanged. Leaves alternate and variable in shape, simple or pinnatifid, the leaf margins wavy, 12 to 20 cm long. Leaf venation is clearly seen above and below the leaf. Leaves are characteristic and easily identified as part of the Proteaceae family.

The ornamental flowers are bright red in umbels, in a circular formation, hence the name Firewheel Tree. Flowers form mostly between February to March. The fruit is a follicle, in a boat shape, 5 to 10 cm long. Inside are many thin seeds 12 mm long. Fruit matures from January to July. Regeneration from fresh seed occurs speedily. Cuttings also strike well. The flower (as "Wheel Flower") is the subject of some of Australian artist, Margaret Preston's most popular flower prints.

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Margaret Preston, ca 1929: Firewheel tree

GALLERY

Another selection of my paintings in mixed media.

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and also part of the Blue Monday meme,
and also part of the Seasons meme.

TETRAPTYCH

And now for something slightly different... The last couple of weeks I was busy completing a series of four paintings that were inspired by photographs. The photographs are given in the four upper panels, and they merge with the paintings in the panels below. A mosaic of images and ideas, colours and emotional responses. Tell me what you think!

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