 Image - UNICEF 2025 Everyone deserves food, shelter and safety. No one should have to fight for every breath. No one should have to be living on emergency 🆘 mode every day of their lives - not knowing if they will wake up dead or alive. Life is not something anyone person, government or society has the audacity to take away. Life is given to us by God, the Universe, Mother Nature… It is ours to hold - free of charge; ours to enjoy - with out pain; ours to share with another - through love, procreation and growth…for this is life. Anything less than this - is not living, but merely existing; and in most cases, for these people, not even existing is on their minute-to-minute survival. Because they are caught between the planes of life and death - someone else living in surplus and greed, holds their hands on their lungs 🫁 like a pin 📌 to a balloon 🎈extinguishable at their whim, for their pleasure and purpose. Please 🙏 take time to think about this. They have no control over their presence on this planet, and are being held hostage to the cruelty of greedy individuals. Tell me, if this was your life…would you do what they have to - every single day? Would you survive? @sketaozgroup @unicef Scrolling over to: UNICEF and show you care. Do not let someone else control their presence on this planet…one day it could be you. https://www.unicef.org.au/ https://www.unicef.org/  Image - UNICEF 2025  Having time to get back to the drawing board is not always, an easy task. So, this revisit, is a watercolour I worked on, in late April. It always starts off as a bit of a scratch arrangement, and somedays - like this particular day - I was not a hundred percent committed to the task. My mind was elsewhere, yet my watercolour and painting are always good therapy.  This Mother Hubbard is sort like my world - working day-in-day-out, with the hope of getting ahead and then, things change and one's world often falls apart. I think, all mother's feel a bit like this. One puts in so much effort in life; only to see it boil over. So, you refill the pot for the umpteenth time, and hope you do not burn things, again. You hope you have the recipe right and you pray; you can fill all the bowls.
Some days, you get caught out and you find yourself, staring in the mirror - asking why?
Keeping our SeaLife available for all generations of people, is paramount. Protecting sea creatures such as sea turtles, whales and dolphins by Green Peace Australia seafaring crews, enables our biodiversity to continue for generations to come. It is everyone's responsibility to ensure such wildlife is protected from oil giants like Woodside, who are adamant to continue drilling in our Australian waters, despite their presence destroying all that lives, in the vicinity.
Please help Green Peace and Sketa Oz protect these wondrous creatures and their never to be found again, environments. https://www.greenpeace.org.au/ https://www.sketaoz.com/one-world.html#/ Help us protect our oceans! #greenpeace #sketaoz  Xavier Xue - Prix de Lausanne 2025 Candidate / Photo Courtesy - Prix de Lausanne 2025  Rhyan Foerster - Prix de Lausanne 2025 Candidate / Photo Courtesy - Prix de Lausanne 2025 A dancer’s life is always one of struggle, resilience, patience, pain, agony and shear brut guts and determination. There is not one athlete~artist on the planet that goes through more heart-breaking, enduring loss and then reshaping of mind, body and soul. They are loved for their beauty of line, ridiculed for their style of perservance, envied for their form and athleticism. They are often given the cold shoulder by educators; schools-family-society persuade children not to follow this path of artistic learning in their senior years - because it is not a ‘real job’ - much like the condemnation of most artists in the world. But do you know what? ‘Artists’ are not fickle creatures and are the ones who truly shape this world 🌎 They are the dreamers, the believers, the givers, the doers and are the ones who set the standards for reaching goals; for seeking the pinacle of excellence; for giving up their entire life - shelter, sustenance, spending time with others for the solitary existence they pour their heart into. They live penniless most of their lives, but they are the beings who will be remembered for their selflessness to their art form. They are the names that fill the history books; who inspire the young to dream of magic, princesses and unicorns 🦄. Their art form is what you seek in design, music 🎶 theatre, books; everything you see to live, love and enjoy your life - you can thank that creative - dreamer called - the ‘Artist’.  Hanxi Wang - Prix de Lausanne 2025 Candidate / Photo Courtesy - Prix de Lausanne 2025 The ‘artist’ has shaped this planet beyond our wildest dreams.
Give thanks and gratitude to these givers - you owe them your mental well-being, your love of life, inspiration - past, present and future. You owe them belief in miracles, snails 🐌 fairies 🧚♀️ and the ‘’I’m Possible”.  …Working with a lot of smokey pinks, with black inking - not my usual nib, more pen like Unipen and Micron. My drawing board has experienced a major delay of many months - school, life, and all other ungodly known excitements... have dropped on my doorstep - once again. However, I am alive and kicking, and definitely not letting it get the better of me.
So, this is where I am at this week - trying to catch up on the list (I always have a list - Yes, it does get bigger!) that I usually get around to working on, over the school holidays. Even my writing suffers during school terms. I just manage to find the strength to keep up with the socials - can't let that die away - or I am in big trouble. Well, that's the plan anyway.  And for me, my sketches always lead me down the path of intricacy. I have been working through a few surface design ideas, that usually start off as either pen and ink pieces, or watercolour designs. Given, I pass heaps of gardens - walking to and from school every day, my designs have gone a bit rouge; the weeds and flowers are dominating my work.  This one started out as a small watercolour and transformed into a piece, I am quite happy with... And the results have become quite intricate again, but they look quite okay as surface designs - that is my thought anyway.
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