April Round Up

Five of the most popular posts people were reading for April on my blog, for those of who that have been eating to many Easter eggs...

• This Little Tea Pot Exhibition - I'm a little tea pot short and stout here is my exhibition...
• Illustration Friday - Journey - A Paddling We Will Go
• A Moment To Pause -50yrs of the Rip Curl Pro
• Introducing 3... - newsletters I like receiving in my inbox
• Stencil Works Now At ArtBoy - dropped off a pile of recent stencil works to ArtBoy Gallery in Prahran

A Moment To Pause

Photographer: Nicole Tattersall
Title: Untitled
Website: www.nicoletattersall.blogspot.com

Introducing 3...

Some Easter facts all about eggs which I thought only fitting as it is Easter Sunday...

• In medieval times a festival of egg throwing was held in church, during which the priest would throw a hard-boiled egg to one of the choirboys. It was then tossed from one choirboy to the next and whoever held the egg when the clock struck 12 was the winner and retained the egg.
• To Egyptians, the egg was a sacred token of the renovation of mankind after the Flood.
• The custom of giving eggs at Easter time has been traced back to Egyptians, Persians, Gauls, Greeks and Romans, to whom the egg was a symbol of life.

Ladie Killerz #4

 

Next weekend is Ladie Killerz #4, a weekend long, traveling festival, celebrating ladies and their killer skills in all things art, music, film and especially graffiti!

I'll be participating in the Graffiti Jam, Art Exhibition and also will be organising the Market component of the event. There are still stalls available for the market. If your interested in having a stall at Ladie Killerz, send me through an email.

To read more about the event click here

Melbourne
Ladie Killerz #4
ONE FIVE FACTION, 1-5 Wightman St, Footscray, Victoria
When: Friday 29 April - Sunday 1 May 1
Website

A Moment To Pause

Photographer: Nicole Tattersall
Title: Untitled
Website: www.nicoletattersall.blogspot.com

FanBoy v ArtBoy - Comics

ArtBoy Gallery are at it again with FanBoy v ArtBoy this time round it's all about comics. The inner nerd in me got so excited about this theme. Some of my favorite illustrators/artists illustrate some very well known comic books.

If your keen to enter, submissions are due by 21 May 2011. You'd best get to work, which is what I'll be doing once I'm done with my pieces for 'Drip'

For more information visit www.artboygallery.com/ArtBoy_Gallery/FanBoy_vs._ArtBoy.html

Maeve Edition 4

A selection of my latest stencil works are featured in the artist show case of the latest Edition of Maeve Magazine. To check out Maeve Magazine's Winter Edition visit www.maevemagazine.com/content.asp?edition=4 it's also chock full of vintage goodies.

Illustration Friday - Journey

Illustration Friday, is where a topic is posted each and every Friday, then participants have a week to come up with their own interpretation for the topic or find something they've already created that fits. For me it's all in the name of fun and it gets me thinking about topics that generally I wouldn't illustrate or think about. Even if I don't get the time to create something, I enjoy flicking through those that have.

The current topic is Journey and 'A Paddling We Will Go" I think is a perfect fit.

A Moment To Pause

Title: Untitled 491
Photographer: Eros Turranos
Website: www.erosturranos.deviantart.com

Hints + Tips - Vintage Fabric Garden Markers

Lately I've been planting heaps of seeds and well... after a few weeks I've forgotten what I have planted which is I just love these Vintage Fabric Garden Markers. You can find the tutorial on how to make them at www.designspongeonline.com.

Introducing 3...

So today is my birthday and hence it is fitting that I talk about 3 things I would love, to celebrate another milestone in my life...

 

A New Pair of Jeans

 

Go To 'Dreams Come True' at ACMI

Photographer: Eva

To Sleep In

This Little Tea Pot

Above is my teapot 'Patch Me Another One' for the long awaited 'This Little Teapot', an exhibition featuring fifty fist-sized teapots that have met their fate at the skilled hands of a select group of established and emerging artists. To be displayed with my teapot I've created three smaller pieces painted on recycled fabric that's been hand stitched together.

Other artists who have been very busy turning plain white porcelain teapots into a pieces of art are Bec Winnel, Burntfeather, Jessica Klingelfuss, Aramas Ridge, Jessica Stewart, Caitlin Shearer, Alex Louisa, TEZ, Jessica Singh, Emma Kidd, Rebecca Murphy, Kaitlin Beckett, Gimiks Born, Caitlin Rigby, Ellen Stapleton, Jordan Clarke, Mz Katii, The Bold Italics, Kat White, Tabitha Emma,Ben Zen, Qwux, I & The Others, Tony Curran, Tiger, Eirian Chapman, Lizzie Hall, Michelle Dawson, Andros, Gloz, Ian Mutch, Bronek Kozka, Sarah Holmes, Laura Carey, Jacque Prior, Kirbee Lawler, OKAY, Hannah Fenton, Kirst Ohh, Anna Mae Marquez, Yasemin Sabuncu, A.West, Beth Josey, Matthew Roland Bannister, and a few more super secret surprise artists.

Head along to Paper Plan Galery this Wednesday to celebrate the opening of 'This Little Teapot'. There will be refreshments, delicious hot and cold teas, and nibbles served throughout the evening.

Sydney
Paper Plane Gallery, 727 Darling St, Rozelle, NSW, Australia
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 13 April, 6-8pm
Exhibition: Wednesday 13 April – Sunday 1 May
Website: This Little Teapot
Proudly supported by T2, Curvy, and Paper Plane Gallery

A Moment To Pause

 The Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach presented by FORD, the second stop on the 2011 ASP World Title season, will welcome the world’s best surfers this April for its incredible 50-year anniversary. As I was flicking though my photos from past events that I either went to as a spectator or as a volunteer. I came across one of Serena Brooke. It was just before the womens final in 2005. She was up against Sofia Malkovich.

If you've ever been to Bells or to any surfing comp for that matter you know how crowded it can be. Right in the moment I took this shot, Serena is just doing her thing and it looks like it could be just a stretch before going out at a secret break. In fact it's not though the only thing that gives the fact away that she is preparing for a comp at all, is the rash vest over the wetsuit.

Photographer: Nicole Tattersall
Website: www.nicoletattersall.blogspot.com

Stencil Works Now At ArtBoy

Above is just a selection of my stencil works which are now available at ArtBoy Gallery in Prahran. They only arrived this week and to my surprise within the time it took me to get from there back home after a meeting yesterday, 'Sea Turtle' had found a loving new home! To check out all the works that I have at ArtBoy Gallery visit my profile page and while your there check out the profiles of all the amazing other artists and photographers there too!

Profile on Creative Womens Circle

Just today my profile went up on the Creative Women's Website! Okay to be honest it took me a while to complete the questions for my profile but I'm glad I waited as it's now up on their shiny new site which I just love! 

To check out my profile visit www.creativewomenscircle.com.au/2011/04/cwc-profile-nicole-tattersall.html and whilst your there check out the profile of other creative women!

Hints + Tips - Choosing a Colour Platte

Colour is such an important part of good design and art. I find this so espically with my stencil works, I've had some pieces that have never seen the light of day simply because I didn't like the way the colours interacted with each other. Here are 3 useful colour palette and combination resources that I find useful when stuck on colour...

COLOURlovers
COLOURlovers is a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, comment on news and read color-related articles.
 

Color combinations
You will find more than 200 color combinations to help you in selecting colors for your website or band identity project.

colr.org
It’s a tool to let designers fiddle around with colors and have a bit of fun whilst doing so.

"Let Go!" Exhibition of new work by Rachee Renee and Zsandor

There is a very exciting new exhibition about to come to At Large Gallery. Its's a duo exhibition featuring Rachee Renee and Zsandor. The new works that will be on show explore the personal journey of each artist into thir past, digging out cobwebs of forgotton life tales, and shedding them onto the canvas to make way for the new. With both artists stemming from a street art background, this exhibition mixes street art and fine art elements using aerosol, acrylic, oil, markers and a host of other mixed media.

I hope to have the time to make it to this exhibition, as I've admiration for both these artists and would love to check out some of their more recent works. 

Melbourne
At Large Gallery
Exhibition Opening: Friday 15 April, 6pm - 9pm
Exhibition: Friday 15 - Friday 29 April
Website: www.racheerenee.com or www.atlargegallery.com

Introducing 3...

Yesterday I was talking to a friend about social networking and in conversation came up email newsletters. It was discussed how people have become so use to e-marketing that they may not even read the newsletter they've subscribed to, especially with all the emails that we do receive in this day and age. This has led me to thinking about which newsletters I subscribe to and which ones I read and don't read.

As part of this weeks introducing three I would like to introduce three email newsletters and updates that I do read!

P.S 
Don't forget if you want to sign up to receive my monthly newsletter you can do so in the right hand side panel

 

Oh So Beautiful Paper

Orlando and Ivy / The Public Studio

Tabitha Emma

A Moment To Pause

Title: It wasn't just a dream

Photographer: Taylie

Website: www.itaylie.deviantart.com