5 paintings sold which was awesome.  The exhibition is open until the 20th May 2012, so get on down to Violet Pilot, 261 Queen Victoria Street, North Fremantle if you’d like to see what is on show.

One of the paintings (Dorothy) was bought on Monday by a lovely lady in Canberra who took her home with her, so have attached her here as well.

A huge thank you to Violet Pilot for hosting such a wonderful event, beautiful canapé’s and wine’s were the order of the night, it was just magical!  Of course an even bigger thank you to my amazing friends, family and fans who all came along.. you astounded me with your support and wonderful uplifting words of encouragement!

Here’s a few snaps from the evening!

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With about 80 to 90 people coming, it should be a fun and raukus night! French DJ to hit us up with some funky tunes,  it does look to be a huge funktastic night!! woOOOhoOOoo!!

Here’s a few sneaky peaks of the paintings I’ve been working, to just give you a tantalising view.

I’m donating this small piece titled, “Butterfly Charmer”.  I hope it helps them out in some way.

Here’s a couple of sketches from today, that kept my mind from fraying at the edges.

Also I must inform that the Exhibition Date is being put off until April.  Date’s will be nailed down shortly and you can hear when either here on my Facebook page.

I’m still busy painting and drawing for it, so its go go go at the gasbomb residence!

With the exciting opening night planned for Friday the 20th April in down town groovey North Fremantle, just near my favourite watering hole, “Mojo’s! !

Here’s a little glimpse of what I’m working on now….!   She’s sexy and formidably naughty…!  Stay tuned for your personal invite and more sneaky glimpses into what will be on show!

Clare Lansdale was one of the first drawings/sketches I put into the journal… the painting on the otherside of the paper she was drawn on though, started to leach through… so figured she might look a bit better with some colour incorporated into her.  I don’t mind at all how it’s turned out!

Before

After

Christmas and New years was very relaxing, with a trip to Tasmania to see relatives for Christmas, along with a driving holiday, whereby we drove all over the island, visiting every place you could think of !  It really is an insanely pretty State, with gorgeous food and all so cheap!  We also did some side visits to Melbourne and Sydney, where by I shopped like a crazy woman.  We  finished off our holiday in Sydney with a party in New Year’s Eve,.  We were so very lucky to have the best seats in the house, watching the  amazing fireworks display in Sydney.  We had sweeping views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Opera house and the entire harbour, with glasses of  some very nice Dom Perignon, vintage 2002 champagne.  We were very spoilt!  If only we could live like that every day!!

But alas, back into the every day grind of things now. =(

I do have some exciting news though, and that is that Gasbombgirl will be having her FIRST ever SOLO Exhibition this coming March 2012!!  I’m super duper excited and have been busy preparing pieces, old and new for the exhibit!

I managed to purchase some awesomely funky frames the other day too, that will just be such a great treat with some of my  artworks!

There was also the added bonus of them being on sale, so I bought up big!

Meanwhile though, I’ve also been filling up my little World Sketchbook project journal, and will be posting it back any day now.  I’ll be sad to see it leave the shores of my home town.. perhaps one day I’ll be able to visit him again… if I ever get to the Brooklyn Library where it’ll be permanently housed. (when not on the world tour that is)

Here’s a fun little entry I finished yesterday.  It’s also a bit of a sneak show of something I’ll be submitting in the exhibition this year too.

Oh and here’s some details on where the touring dates and places are!

Brooklyn, NY
April 14th-30th
Brooklyn Art Library
103A N. 3rd St
Brooklyn, NY 11249

Chicago, IL
May 3rd-5th
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615

Portland, OR
May 11th-13th
The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel
1022 SW Stark St
Portland, OR

Vancouver, Canada
May 15th-16th
W2 Media Cafe
111 W Hastings St.
Vancouver, BC

Los Angeles, CA
May 24th-26th
iam8bit
2147 W. Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

San Francisco, CA
June 2nd-June 23rd
Pop-Up Shop

Greater Boston Area
July 6th-8th
LynnArts
25 Exchange Street
Lynn, MA

Portland, ME
July 11th-14th
SPACE Gallery
538 Congress Street
Portland, ME 04101

Toronto, Canada
July 18th-22nd
The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen St. W
Toronto, ON

Philadelphia, PA
Aug 23rd-25th
The Painted Bride
co-presented with InLiquid
230 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

Atlanta, GA
Aug 29th – Sept 1st
MASS Collective
364 Nelson St. SW
Atlanta, GA

Austin, TX
September 8th-16th
Co-Lab Project Space
613 Allen St.
Austin, TX

Melbourne, Australia*
November 10th-25th
NGV Studio
Federation Square
Russell & Flinders Sts
Melbourne

London, England*

*As of now, the London and Melbourne exhibitions will be limited to books from their respective continents. All other tour dates will include every single book submitted to this year’s project.

Dates and locations subject to change.
Further details here: http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject2012