Robertson Studios

It has been a long while since I’ve had the opportunity to draw a car. Which is a bit sad, because I like cars 🙂  One of my work colleagues has a GORGEOUS show car that I thought I’d have a go at rendering in ink and watercolour as a bit of an experiment. Here are a few “work in progress” shots and then the final. I am quite pleased with the way it turned out. 🙂 Working in watercolour became more and more nerve-wracking the further into the project I got…I was very nervous about messing it up and having to start all over again!!

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For my weekly artist date yesterday I went to the exhibition of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s art at the National Gallery of Australia. It was fascinating. The loose lines and bold colours, the huge lithographic posters. Beautiful.

The thing that fascinated me most though was the subject of the vast majority of the artworks … they were prostitutes and cabaret personalities. Toulouse-Lautrec lived for weeks at a time in brothels in order to do series of drawings – to capture these women in their most vulnerable, humane moments. He hung out back stage at baudy cabaret shows and painted the portraits of young men who had drunk one too many absinthe cocktails. His portraits … although sensitive and beautiful portrayals … are of a very dark and seedy underworld.

As I looked around me in the gallery halls it was easy to see that there were a lot of families and several very wealthy, high society patrons visiting and viewing the artworks. The kind of people that pride themselves on being the pillars of the community…and yet here we were all standing together admiring this deeply sensual, gritty art. Were they understanding what they were seeing? Perhaps they had abstracted themselves out to the point where they were merely looking at marks on paper. No-one seemed to bat an eyelid.

I found it more than a little ironic. Was that lifestyle no longer shocking or disturbing because it was being portrayed as oil on cardboard? Would photographs have been more confronting? Was it the passage of years perhaps? Looking at the dark side of life through the lens of history….did that make it less desperate? These were real people caught in a lifestyle that left their mouths twisted in wry little pasted-on half-smiles that hid the conflict within and with eyes that seemed to lead to a haunting emptiness.

All of those artworks collected in a beautiful, pretty, clean gallery, presented as an exhibition….it almost felt as though prostitution had been normalised and made acceptable fodder for upper-class entertainment, just as it had been in the halls of the Moulin Rouge in La Belle Epoch Paris. It felt romanticised.

It’s not acceptable of course. Would you want your child working like that? No, me neither.

I don’t know what Toulouse-Lautrec’s intent was when he was capturing these tableaux, I doubt his motives were altruistic, but they certainly made an impression on me. Good art makes us think. It makes us uncomfortable. It makes us react.

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…and in more ways than one in this case!

Yesterday I did the first in a series of personal safety courses with the crew at Military Combatives, and discovered the wonderful world of tactical pens. Oh the possibilities! I cannot tell you how absolutely tickled pink I am that my tool of choice for both writing and drawing can now be my tool of choice for keeping myself safe. 🙂

I am somewhat disturbed that 24 hours after the course I am still hyper excited about it all, however the feeling of empowerment that comes with knowing that I could free myself from the grasp of a would-be attacker with nothing more than my hands or a pen is a heady feeling. Not that I *want* to do that…avoidance and preventative measures always come first…but now I don’t have to rely on anyone else to ‘save’ me. Awesome!

Oh…and that they’re made by companies like Smith and Wesson, Colt, Schrade and Uzi just make it all the more fun….yeah baby…I’ve got an Uzi in my pocket…. sorry…I think I might have been a mercenary in a former life………

*skips off to find someone to get all Chuck Norris on … ummm… I mean practise on*

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My new watercolour kit! I’ve put together a little slimline kit to carry around in my pencil case. I can’t wait to try out the colours.

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