More flowers from a conservatory

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Two more types of flowers - photos - turned into digital images that become almost abstract. The method is simple: scan in photos from camera, make extra images using Picasa or Photo-edit, choose two at a time and overlap using Picasa create collage.

More orchids

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Though some of you will think if quite wrong to mess about with a photo of orchids, well, I am having a go at making new shapes, textures, etc. Now that the camera is gone to Fiji, I'll have to go back to doing direct sketches for a few weeks I suppose! Today has been very restful after the last three hectic days. Only a casserole luncheon with a group of women, then visiting my friend up the road for a talanoa. (yarn). Later I'll write up something on the Babasiga blog about our splendid theological lecturer from last night's program at East Geelong Uniting Church.

Orchids reviving

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A spike of orchids looked like they were on the way out so I rescued them and put three flowers into water with a few red and green leaves I'd picked while strolling back from the shop. The dying orchids actually revived.

A cross, orchids and a bus-stop

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Some sketches mainly with coloured pencil are here as I try to tone down the bright colours I usually use. The new orchid is just opening and in a pot near our back door. The view from the Normanby Street bus-stop is ordinary but I had ten minutes to wait. The Altona Meadows Uniting Church looks like an aeroplane hangar and has oddly shaped windows, roof and ceilings and the placement of a cross, plotplants near a window caught my attention. This is one of the Melbourne churches where there is a Fijian congregation. I go there sometimes with Peceli. I did not draw this during worship, but later when the choir was practicing!