Gilly Huber | Artist

I cannot believe it’s almost six months since I wrote my last ‘blog’! This year is just speeding past - what’s the saying: “Life is like a toilet roll. The nearer the end, the faster it goes!” Well, life is certainly galloping on at the moment. And it’s not as if I’ve done anything very much, nothing out of the ordinary, anyway. Which is why I haven’t had much to write about for this ‘blog’.

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Yes, since my last ‘blog’ I spent several unhappy weeks really in the doldrums, particularly with my art. I just couldn’t be bothered. What was the point, anyway? I couldn’t find anything to interest me and was easily distracted from even the thought of plodding over to the Studio.

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As mentioned in my previous ‘blog’, drawing has been my main focus of late. So far I’ve completed five lovely, little nude sketches, just using graphite and charcoal pencils with white pastel highlights, and I’m rather pleased with the results. I’m particularly pleased that my proportions have been achieved correctly with very little erasing, and mostly with none.

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Sales are incredibly poor throughout the WA Art Scene. I’m not the only one who’s feeling the pinch, but it is very soul-destroying to enter exhibition after exhibition and not have one single sale. WASA, Ellenbrook, Wanneroo-Joondalup, Trigg, Pastel Society, Mazenod College - I’ve brought all my paintings home from each one. And although I know it’s due to the current economy and people avoiding spending on luxuries, it certainly rocks an artist’s confidence.

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I cannot believe that so much time has passed since I wrote my last ‘blog’. I blame it all on our new pup! Even ‘though it was such a short time since we had lost our beautiful Shiraz, hubby kept on niggling about another dog and I finally gave in. The house was feeling so empty, anyway.

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