Whimsical Art for Your Home
Birds with character and life to bring your rooms a bit of fun.
Kia ora, my name is
Simone
I am a Visual Artist based in Aotearoa, New Zealand. My art is led by curiosity and a desire to express my thoughts and passion for our world.
The Blog : Writing about Art and Creative living.
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Creating Art Gifts: A Budgie Portrait
It’s been a while since I posted any news on the art front. I am making art, but it’s all gifts or commissions at the moment, or wee tutorials to improve techniques. Life has also been pretty busy for us as a family. This means I don’t get huge amounts of time to get into
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I Quit Facebook and Instagram, Here’s Why.
The whys: To get more work done. To stop comparing myself to others. The Algorithm’s To not be run by the algorithms. To summarise paragraphs of ranting: The algorithms are designed to make money from users attention. Making money for shareholders in the short term is their absolute priority and every decision made is setup
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Shift: Urban Art Takeover – Review
From February to April this year our local Museum had a “street art” take over. They are heading into a massive refurbishment, it’s been largely the same since I remember going as a kid. So its well due. There are some pretty fab pieces in their collection that have not had the space to come
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I’ve been swallowed by the internet
Deciding to ‘make a go of it’ when it came to making a selling art has started to bring up some struggles for me. I thought I might share them.. because what else does one blog about?? I decided a few years ago now to take a social media break. It worked really well and
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On starting up a new art practice
In the last 15 years, the only art I did really consisted of copying the odd painting into my sketchbook or a large easy canvas to decorate our walls. Mainly as some art therapy and “me time” amongst the normal comings and goings of our lives. When I decided to start up a regular art
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