I'm excited to announcing my FIRST PRINTMAKING CLASS! I'll be teaching a lino carving and printing class with Workshop Freo in September. We'll be using monstera leaves as our inspiration. And if you just can't get enough of tropical plants, I'm also teaching a watercolour tropical foliage class too!!
Check out my classes page for these and other upcoming classes.
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Over the last six months I have been working to build up a portfolio of watercolour work available for licensing. Now that my website overhaul is finished I'm happy to launch this new part of my business. I'll be uploading lots of beach-inspired repeat patterns and illustrations over the coming months. View my portfolio.
I had such fun colouring these surfboards with watercolours. They form a unique state print which I have framed and for sale at the Artisan Store, Fremantle.
I've also made them into bookmarks! They're being printed this week and will be available in my Etsy shop soon. After a lot of procrastinating, I've finally dived into some carving. I spent a full day in the studio printing last week and now have some lovely new goodies in my Etsy store. I have editions in navy, aqua and black.
What would you like to see as a linoprint? Howdy! My next class is coming up real soon. Next weekend in fact! I'm looking forward to a morning filled with techniques to document your next holiday and fill that journal with colour. Resist techniques. Mixed media. Travelling light. I can't wait. If only I had a cool holiday of my own coming up! My last class for this season will cover lovely, vibrant wet-in-wet techniques. Galaxies and crystals, oh my! April 7, and after that I hope to be spending my weekend surfing!
Interested? Head to my classes page for all the details. I hope to see you for some colour and a cuppa. What do you get for the person who has everything? I can email through a gift voucher in time for Christmas! Class vouchers cost $67 and are valid for any of my half day workshops. Gift vouchers for my online shop are also available. Read more about the classes here.
I really enjoyed working on this painting. 'A little magic can take you a long way...' took me around 6 hours to complete. Watch me adding the last details in a minute or two. After eight trips to Bali, Lombok was a refreshing adventure. We stayed at Heaven on the Planet near Ekas Bay. After a flight delay, we found ourselves being driven through the darkness along a track that was akin to the road into 3 Mile Camp, Gnaraloo. After our driver negotiated the trees growing in the middle of the road, the 'pot holes' and the rocks, we arrived close to midnight. We were told to keep our shoes inside to avoid the scorpions and to watch out for the monkeys, then wished a good night. The room we had booked for the first night was very rudimentary, with a pipe coming out of the wall for a cold shower. We dearly hoped this wasn't what we were in for for the rest of our stay. Next morning things looked much brighter as we sat down to breakfast and a 270 degree view of the ocean. Drank black tea while watching the first shift of surfers out on the reefbreak. We moved to our actual room and were pleased to have a traditional style Indonesian bungalow with a view of the surf... and an actual shower. It didn't take us long to switch to island time, finish a number of books and countless cups of tea. Getting to the surf was easy with a boat waiting in the bay to take us out whenever we were ready. I think I came home fitter than when I arrived. As there were 100m of stairs down to the bay that we climbed up and down multiple times each day. One or two surfs, plus snorkelling and SUPing, had us starving for our dinner each night. I made the most of my child-free time. One day I went for a snorkel over the reef break, then swam to shore, climbed the stairs, down the stairs, Sup'd across the bay to the break and back, up and down the stairs, surfed in the bay, then caught the boat our for a final surf at Inside Ekas. With that out of my system, I chilled out a bit over the following days. I didn't see a scorpion the whole trip and the monkeys kept to themselves as they are native here and aren't in the habit of being fed (unlike the unpleasant Monkey Forest near Ubud.) The wave was pretty great. Relatively soft and gentle even at well overhead. It was forgiving on all tides, although, with the small swell it stopped breaking at high tide. The lefts were super fun, long rides and the right was more abrupt and faster. I enjoyed the isolation of this place. There was no temptation to go shopping (there are none) and I was put off sightseeing the the road we'd have to leave on, so it was wonderful to just stay put, eat, surf, read and relax. I think I appreciated this holiday far more once I returned home and realised just how lucky we'd been with the swell. It's a leap of faith planning a surf trip in advance and it's all luck whether the waves are too big or non-existent. This time, they were just right. If I get the chance to come back, I'll be hoping on a plane.
Happy Easter!!Find me at the Westend Weekender along High Street in Fremantle as part of the Street Arts Festival.
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I'm excited to have a limited number of archival, digital reproductions of my originals now available on Etsy. they can be viewed here. Oh, and we bought ourselves a little, retro caravan! |
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Surf Artist, Hannah Katarski is based in Fremantle, Western Australia. She creates ocean-inspired art that is bohemian, retro and fun.
Mermaid's Coin is the perfect place if you are a surfer girl, surfer at heart, decking out your beach house, or just wanting a little bit of Summer to hang on your wall.
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