avril jean
Australian artist, writer, tech professional, Avril E Jean
January 6, 2017
Last season was a very rainy year in Melbourne. So rainy that our laundry drain (which used to be the outdoor stormwater drain), became flooded. We […]
January 6, 2017
So in my last post about the drain pipe saga, I mentioned that I had to remove a bit of cat run. It was a terrible […]
January 5, 2017
I have been sewing a lot of sock monkeys recently. I thought I’d record my progress so you can see how easy they actually are. What […]
December 16, 2016
A guy I have worked with for 5 years, and who i worked very closely with over the last year or so, finished up yesterday. These […]
December 3, 2016
A while ago I did a series of posts on painting with egg tempera. I’d finished the first one – this portrait of Ada Lovelace holding […]
October 11, 2016
I did a colour pencil course with a very experienced tutor, Richard Klekocuik, this was with the Grampians Brushes art classes they run each year. I […]
August 17, 2016
I’m going to do a two day course on using coloured pencil in a month or so – looking forward to it. Apart from anything else, […]
March 13, 2016
From the angle we watched the sunset over Kata Tjuta in the Northern Territory, it was pointed out that the rock formation looked like Homer. It […]
February 21, 2016
I’ve spent most of my weekends this summer working on soundproofing a shed in order that the african drummer has somewhere to go to a)store his […]