October Round Up

Hausnummer 5 - Gertrud K

What were people keen to read, view, and smile at this month on my blog... well... here are the top five...

• A3 - Small Art Show - "A3" is a Small Art Show opening at For Walls Gallery featuring over 50 artists from around Australia and overseas
• A Moment To Pause - Photographer: Sarah Louise Johnson
• 2011 Calendar - For each year I like to create a calendar and 2011 is no different
• Hints and Tips - Twitter - 10 guidelines of etiquette relating to twitter that I feel are worth jotting down
• Introducing Three.. - To help me pay the vet bills, I've gone through my art stock pile and have done a clean out, posting some artworks for sale through my shop on Made It

Introducing 3...

This weekend in Melbourne is a very very very week weekend... yes, I had big plans of things I wanted to do, though due to weather my plans have changed. Here are three things I'm doing this weekend that are more suited for when it is raining outside.

Make a tablecloth (Yes, this is the tablecloth I made)

Go furniture shopping

Have a long yummy breakfast

On The Wall

Leeloo and The Finders Keepers Market are seeking artists within the Australian community to submit for an exhibition to be held at The Finders Keepers Market on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 December 2010 at CarriageWorks.If selected your work will be on show and sale to over thousands of visitors at market and will be alongside all the indie design, art, and music that goes along with a Finders Keepers Marke.

Submissions have been open since 22 September and will be closing on Friday 5 November at 5pm. It is open to Australian artists only and the selected artists will be chosen by the beautiful peeps at Leeloo and Finders Keepers.

For further information visit www.leeloo.com.au

A Moment To Pause

Photographer: Unknown

Luke Taaffe Wants Your Shorts

Artist Luke Taaffe will pay for your old Quicksilver board shorts... yes you heard me... old worn out board shorts... why? Well I don't really know but I'm keen to find out!

"If you have or know someone with any original Quiksilver boardies or any boardies from the day, throw me an email and I will offer some good coin for them. I don't the high tech philosophy behind 'performance boardshorts' these days. Boardshorts are meant to look bright, loud, sit well above the knee and give you a rash if worn all day. Stretch Boardies = Thumbs Down" - Luke Taaffe

For details visit www.luketaaffe.com/2010/10/your-boardshorts-are-wanted.html

Curvy 7 News!

You may have already heard but for Curvy 7 and the first edition of Muscle Up there will be launches in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.

To make things a little more exciting, for the second edition in a row I'll be curating the Melbourne launch at Magnation which I'm pretty excited about! With more time up my sleeve than last time I hope to make it a pretty special event.

If you’re on Facebook – please make sure you add yourself to the CURVY page as they’ll be making little updates every now and then via the page www.facebook.com/pages/CURVY/361600850813

A Moment To Pause

Photographer: Sarah Louise Johnson
Models: Theres and Sam
Makeup and Styling: Lauren Baker
Hair: Eugine Davis
Website: www.sarahlouisejohnson.deviantart.com

2011 Calendar

For each year I like to create a calendar and 2011 is no different. Though if your keen on hanging one on your wall or giving one as a gift you'd be best quick, it's not a limited edition though I only plan to have a small print run.

My 2011 calendar is A6 in size, printed on 300gsm recycled card, features a selection of my artworks, bound using a bulldog clip and is packaged in recyclable cellophane.

You can buy them through:
• Leeloo
• Kids in Berlin
• My Made It shop
• From my stall at the North Melbourne Market (24 Oct & 7 Nov) and Mulgrave Market (19 Dec)

Hints + Tips - Save Bookmark

So simple... I love it! To make your own Save Bookmark visit www.icoeye.com/blog/?p=75

A3 - Small Art Show

"A3" is a Small Art Show opening at For Walls Gallery featuring over 50 artists from around Australia and overseas coming together to submit A3 sized work, with a portion of sales going towards the charity, Room to Read.

Currently I'm working on my piece for the show which will feature the first of my limited edition stencils. Yes, as of recently I've made the decision that any stencil I cut will only be sprayed 10 times plus an artists proof. As I'm just starting to the design I'll just give you a heads up if your into cute bunnies doing cute things then you'll want to keep your eyes open if you want to get your hands on an original. It will feature my very own honey bunny Nickel.

I look forward to seeing you for drinks on Wednesday 17 November from 6-8pm for the opening of "A3".

Melbourne
For Walls Gallery
Miss Libertine
34 Franklin Street, Melbourne
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 17 November, 6pm - 8pm
Exhibition: Wednesday 17 November - Wednesday 10 December
Website: www.misslibertine.com.au or www.smallartshow.com
Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157318337632159&index=1

Introducing 3...

This weeks Introducing 3... features three places where you can purchase my art and other bits and pieces online. So if you can't physically make it to any of the exhibitions or markets I have pieces at, you can do so from the comfort of your own home.

A Moment To Pause

Photographer: Unknown

North Melbourne Market

I'll be holding a stall at the next North Melbourne Market on Sunday 24 October 2010 from 10am - 5pm, the hours have been extend until 5pm to coincide with the Spring Fling 2010. At my stall I'll have cards, badges, original artworks and some new surprises which I've been busy working on. Come on by and say hi, don't forget to check out the other stalls selling homemade wares, art, second hand clothes and much, much more!

North Melbourne Market
The Lithuanian Club
44 Errol St, North Melbourne
When: Sunday 24 October 2010, 10am - 5pm (extended hours)
Cost: $2
Website: www.northmelbournemarket.com

Introducing 3...

Sadly my little bunny Nickel is not on top of the world, she needs some serious vet attention and with that comes some pretty big vet bills. At only 7 months old, I'm going to try to do all that I can to get her better again. To help me pay the vet bills, I've gone through my art stock pile and have done a clean out, posting some artworks for sale through my shop on Made It at very affordable prices. Here are three that are already available to call your very own...

www.madeit.com.au/detail.asp?id=148978

www.madeit.com.au/detail.asp?id=148988

www.madeit.com.au/detail.asp?id=148963

A Moment To Pause

Photographer: Jessica Wilson
Title: There We Go...
Webiste: www.flickr.com/photos/jek-a-go-go

Finders Keepers Melbourne

The first Finders Keepers Melbourne market will be held this weekend on the 9th and 10th October 2010. The market will be held at Shed4, a massive warehouse space in Docklands. I'll have items stocked there through Leeloo.

The first Melbourne Finders Keepers market brings together new emerging and contemporary independent artists and designers of original and high creative standards. With the aim to introduce new innovative works to cater for a wide range of the many people who visit Finders Keepers and their supporters. Each market event is completely unique and they are regulary introducing new designers and trying and rotate stallholders from previous events, as well as featuring local independent musicians and with other special features ontop of everything else!

Melbourne
Finders Keepers Market
Shed 4 Docklands - Victoria Harbour, North Wharf Road, Docklands
When: Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 October, 10am - 5pm
Website: www.thefinderskeepers.com/melbourne-markets.php

Hints + Tips - Twitter

I'm a huge advocate for the us of twitter, especially as an artist and in my full-time role for a charity. Though like most things there a general rules of etiquette, even though they may not be written in stone, they are a good rule of thumb. Here are 10 guidelines of etiquette relating to twitter that I feel are worth jotting down.

1. Take the time to fill out your profile before you get started, personalise your profile
   
2. Don’t post anything you wouldn’t want your mother to read
3. Connect with the people you follow and it will increase the value of using twitter
   
4. Build your network slowly and carefully, it's not a numbers game, it's like most good friendships - quality over quantity
5. Don’t post so often that you will flood your follower’s stream, especially with unrelevant content
   
6. Try to avoid abbreviating your message so much that it becomes illegible
7. Interact and reply to other users when you have something useful to add
8. Be honest about yourself, let your personality shine on through
9. Thank users when they offer you advice to a problem or question you may have
10. Have fun, if your not enjoying it close your account, if you are then keep on tweeting!

If you want to follow me on twitter you'll find me at www.twitter.com/nictatt

Made It

Just a quick little reminder that you can shop online for cards, prints and other items featuring my artworks in my Made It store. If you haven't yet dropped by would love for you to when you have a moment.

Over the next month I'll be adding to the store some original works, clothing, stationery items, badges and a few other bits and pieces featuring my works too!

A Moment To Pause

Photographer: Stef
Title: Flower Heart
Webiste: www.flickr.com/photos/stefmck