Other Antics

Colour Love. Pattern Play. Drawing.

These ‘other antics’ actively collaborate with my photo & paper collage abstract art. They’re little explorations that consistently inform all my other creative work, so I make time every week to play with them.

Colour Love #14

Colour Love #14

I love this photo of a collision of reflections between two buildings!

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Colour Love #13

Colour Love #13

I do LOVE using the bold colours I cut out of magazines for my abstract antics!

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Colour Love #12

Colour Love #12

Loving the visual delight of bold colours in this photo, especially the way the sunlight creates different tones in the layers & shadows.

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Colour Love #11

Colour Love #11

The contrast between the wet, dead leaves gathered below the green hedge caught my eye while on a walk.

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Colour Love #10

Colour Love #10

This very striking scene is inside the Auckland Town Hall, where I recently attended An Evening with Liz Gilbert (an excellent night!)

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Colour Love #9

Colour Love #9

Every week for 2025 I've committed to digitally picking colours out of my photos, & gathering a few into a colour swatch as the starting point for some pattern play.

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Colour Love #8

Colour Love #8

The season of autumn is upon us in New Zealand.

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Colour Love #7

Colour Love #7

I'm keen to get more comfy throwing different colours together, just to experience how they feel.

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Colour Love #6

Colour Love #6

I love fumbling around combining colours, testing out whether they like being in the same neighborhood - or not.

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Colour Love #5

Colour Love #5

I love playing with plain, bold colours. Deep, moody colours. With pops of bright ones scattered in!

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Colour Love #4

Colour Love #4

I love how colour FEELS. The more I play with it, the more confident I'll become using it!

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Colour Love #3

Colour Love #3

I want to spend more time playing with colour this year, & become more confident about using colour in my collections. I love how colour FEELS. The more I play with combinations, the more curious I am about colour.

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Colour Love #2

Colour Love #2

I want to be more confident & intentional about gathering colours together in my abstract collections. If I spend more time playing with it, exploring it, gathering experiences with it, I'll have a better intuitive feel for it..

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Colour Love #1

Colour Love #1

I love how colour FEELS! I'm attracted to it like a bee to a flower. But I don't really know what colours / colour combinations I truthfully love to use.

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Doodling for clarity....

Doodling for clarity....

The doodling continues while I reflect & try to figure out exactly what my next steps are in my personal, creative, ‘good life’ journey.

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HANDS........

HANDS........

When I’m unsure about things, I tend to pick up some paper & a pen, & start abstract doodling! This intentional act is to ....

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TO WANDER, IS TO SEEK.

TO WANDER, IS TO SEEK.

I love to wander. That’s not to say I‘m lost. I’m not.

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Colour !

Colour !

Colour. I LOVE playing with it, usually in the form of shapes & textures cut from magazine pages (as seen above)

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Pattern fascination

Pattern fascination

Pattern. I can’t NOT play with it.

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