Invertebrates

Well this week I have started on a project I have thought about for a while. My finished insect board inspired me to keep going with the invertebrates. So I contacted the Museum and have started this week on the spiders. They could keep me occupied for a while as there are so many and thanks to Julianne Waldock in the Arachnology section at the Museum there are quite a few lovely little specimens waiting to be painted.
Here is a picture of my finished insects which came back from the framer this week. It measures 1m x 1.6m.....

I Am Still Here.....

Hi again. I know, yet again it has been a terribly long time since I've posted anything. This time though I think my excuse is fairly legitimate. I got married on the weekend and so have been in organising mode for the last 2 months. After 12 years and 2 kids Brett and I decided we should make our children legitimate or something like that. I think really we just hadn't had a good excuse for a big party in a while. Anyway it was a fantastic wedding and an awesome party...

Animal Art Awards 2010

Well my big news for this morning is that I just had a painting accepted into the Animal Art Awards 2010. The exhibition opening is this Saturday night from 6-8pm Central Park Foyer 152-158 St Georges Tce Perth. The exhibition then runs until Saturday 13th February. Tickets for opening night are $20 and need to be pre-booked by phoning 93872144.
Here is a picture of the painting..... oh and yey for me!!

New Website & Insects

Today I relaunched my website (www.rascasse.com.au) After having a "temporary" website for quite a while I decided it was time I started to get a bit more serious. Thanks to Ben Van Grootel (whose dad is one of my mountainbiking buddies) it is now looking great and has the facilities for buying prints online. Over the next few months I hope to add to the prints I have available.
In other news.... As I mentioned in my last post I am working on a series of 70 insects for an entry into the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize. I have scanned a few so you can have a look at them. They are all 10cm x 10cm squares and are painted in watercolour.

What's New??

Well yet again it has been a long time since I updated my blog. Maybe that should be my New Years resolution 'to update my blog regularly'. Just like all other News Years resolutions it is unlikely to actually happen!!
The end of 2009 proved to be busier than expected with a few small commissions coming in before Christmas. They kept me busy until the kids finished school which was good. Over the Christmas break we have been very busy with family and friends and Brett took some time off work so needless to say I have done very little painting over the break. This week Brett went back to work and I started work again but only a few hours each day as the kids are still on holidays.
This year I have a few big projects that I will be working on. I am still painting and drawing the lovely Felicity Bott and still intend to have something ready for the Black Swan Portrait prize. The large dance pose I have been painting of Felicity has been put away in the spare room under a sheet for a while as it's really not going in the direction I want. I have some other ideas for the portrait that I will start on soon. The Waterhouse Natural History Prize is on in the middle of the year and I am painting a series of 70 West Australian insects in detail to enter. I have so far painted 18, only 52 to go!!
Coming up next month I have 2 paintings in the Mundaring Shire Aquisition Exhibition at the Mundaring Arts Centre as well as a painting in the Wanneroo Shire Exhibition. Still waiting to hear if I got anything in to the Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize and the WA Animal Art prize, fingers crossed.
Well that's about it for now. I will endeavour to update a little more often and upload some of the painting and drawings that I'm doing.

Update

I haven't updated my blog for a while because I've been busy trying to get a few things finished. I have finally finished some more fish paintings and they are at the printers at the moment. They will be available to buy next week and I will post pictures of them as soon as I get the scans back. I have a Pink Snapper, Coral Trout, Harlequin Fish and a Trigger Fish available as well as smaller prints of a Blue Swimmer Crab. I am yet to do a Western Blue Groper (even though I know there are people waiting on one). I will get onto that one next. I'll have more coming up, smaller ones of invertebrates, as I am getting ready for the Darlington Arts Festival in November. I will be there the whole weekend selling my prints and I will have a painting in the exhibition. Stay tuned........

Bleeker Award for Taxonomy-Bill Eschmeyer

Bill Eschmeyer receiving my painting of the Dhufish as the Bleeker Award for dinstinguished contributions to Indo-Pacific Icthyology (Taxonomy) at the IPFC/ASFB conference.