Bush walks and flowers

To help free up my body re shoulders back Ive started walking for an hour every couple days,there s a great dirt road out the back of my home,,I can get a good pace up and hear cars and motor bikes with enough time to get into bush.I feel better on top of the new routine Phyiso has outlayed. On these walks Ive come across some wonderful thIngs , heres one, a variation of the Swainsonia, normally purple,this individual is more blue, gorgeous in real life, S beaselyani I believe.

When I got home I played with some soft pastels

Took a while and I dont think its finished but the act of creating soothes the mind. I think it will be destined as a gift when I m happy with it.

Something i did...

These wrens live around here too, Splendid Fairy Wren

I did another smaller one but not happy with it.pics crooked but u get the idea. I recieved another bundle of antique pages so I can do more of this style, maybe a willy wag tail next

The flowers.....

Pochoir

What is Pochoir!

1. Pochoir (French: “stencil”), as distinguished from ordinary stenciling, is a highly refined technique of making fine limited editions of stencil prints. It is often called hand colouring, or hand illustration. The 20th-century artists Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró made prints in this technique for book illustrations.
2. curtisy of Brittania www.britannica.com
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4. My effort is certainly not good but Im inclined to buy a frame cheap one lol and display it,theres a quality about it I love....
5.  another link or two to show something towards process
6.  http://www.annieday.com.au/#!printmaking-techniques/c1vt3  just roll down the page to this technique
7. http://www.grayswatercolors.com/pochoir.htm
8. other than that Im still suffering much pains and aches due to work injuries,,if anyone can give me some uplifting stories of survival from bursis?
9. just some other stuff to add,previous bits from the crafty corner
10. yes i jumped in an am weaving Wolmiese lace in Black,just looking at it currently but it ready when i am
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12. This has been a draft for a few weeks,well since my birthday, im still off work, both shoulders arms and upper back are done an fried,waiting for specialist visit, physo is boosting confidence with telling me Im not a lost cause...we ll see,loads of pilate exercises,
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14. Something not right with blogger lol but i will press on...
15. Looking forward to a three month break from uni,as soon as I can get this current submission done,pretty hard when brains died, lol
16. No spinning,knitting,or any physical work at all. Im trying to keep up the exercises and brisk walking along the bush tracks where I have to dodge the motor bike riders lol.
17. Boys shifted  into town so they rigged out spare room as my art studio, cant do much but its quiet and a great meditative space
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    I thought i had more brushes.. 
19. To finish heres some pretty shots of the garden,we ve had some lovely rain and the moth orchids loved it
    
20. Theres more pics but they are on main computer, using the tablet is easier on me ,some reason sitting at that  computer has me in pain fast. So next time Ill see if I can get them