'a fair-dinkum day'....

'A Fair-Dinkum Day'
 Jo-Ann Hunt©
'The Child Within' Series
H122x40cm
H48x16ins
Acrylic on Canvas
sold

I was looking for a title for this painting.

some paintings start with an idea, a title, but others take on an identity

once they're completed.

with the 100th Anniversary of Anzac Day fast approaching,

I was feeling quite patriotic. the words 'fair dinkum' kept popping up.

it was a phrase my father used a lot...it's kind of old-fashioned now ,

but I still hear it occasionally, especially away from the 'burbs'.

and every so often I've even been known to use it myself!

so this little lad became part of a fair-dinkum day,

and a fair-dinkum legend....the Anzacs!

'5000 Poppies Project'
 Federation Square, Melbourne
 photo: 'ohmygoodness ' Facebook

crochet poppies
4.30 am Anzac Day
 Fed Sq staff rolling up the wet poppies to move them inside out of the rain
photos: ac
(thankyou my lovely daughter :)
on her way to the Shrine of Remembrance Dawn Service)

Anzac Day ....100 years....25 April  2015

'A Fair Dinkum Day'
 detail
 Jo-Ann Hunt©

(update ... this little nipper went to a  new home at the Canterbury Art Show 01-03 May 2015...
 hello and thankyou ! fair-dinkum I'd love a pic of where he ends up! ..and thanks again :) 

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...'Sisters'.....

photo:  ac

"I know my older sister loves me 

because she gives me all her old clothes 

and has to go out and buy new ones."

(author unknown, attributed to a 4 year old named Lauren)   

from quotegarden.com

'Sisters'
 Jo-Ann Hunt©
'The Child Within' series
 H122x92cm
H48x36ins
Acrylic on Canvas
sold

'Sisters'
detail
Jo-Ann Hunt©

'Sisters'
detail
Jo-Ann Hunt©

 I once worked with a girl who was one of 14 children. (ouch!)

She had an aunt who, every Xmas, would handmake each of the 8 girls 

in the family a dress from the same pattern, and in the same fabric. 

My friend, the youngest girl, dreaded this Xmas gift  because she knew 

that she would never outgrow all those hand-me-downs, 

and that she'd be wearing versions of that dress for the next 12 years!

                                     true story!         

                                                           :)     Jo 

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'We'll be Back Tomorrow'

We'll be Back Tomorrow'
detail
Jo-Ann Hunt©

Driving around the suburbs its not unusual to see large flocks

of Corellas hanging like masses of lanterns in the trees.

Apparently they move down from the higher areas to avoid the cold

and to feed on the autumn berries. Yesterday I saw a 'swarm' in the sky

....way too many to call it a 'flock'....there must have been a couple

of thousand birds.

They were too far away to photograph, but the noise was raucous!

So awesome! Magic!

'We'll be Back Tomorrow'
 Jo-Ann Hunt©
;The Child Within' Series
H122x92cm
H48x36ins
Acrylic on Canvas
sold

This painting from my archives (2012) is called 'We'll be Back Tomorrow'

I enjoy seeing and hearing these huge flocks at this time of year....

and I hope they'll be back tomorrow too...

but only if they wait till I'm up and awake!


                 Jo  :)


(you'll find  more Cockatoo and Corella posts here and right here  )

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