Wow, that's amazing, must have taken ages to do.
Hi again Steve,
No, I haven't seen the stuff the aborigines do....but I love Aboriginal art, I think it's amazing.
Today I bought some balsa wood, just a couple of small pieces, don't know how it will go, but I wanted to try and I bought another nice long piece of pine.....and a new pyrography kit from Bunnings, that's my second in as many weeks. This one is made by Weller and has 15 nibs, and it heats up...very quickly. I've downloaded.... dozens ....of drawings I want to try, everything from animals and flowers to faries and angels...can't wait to do more of it. It's quite an obsession with me at the moment. That's a good idea about going to the beach, I'm only 5 minutes drive from it.
My pyrography is very simple and I'm keeping it like that till I get more experienced and find the right tools.
I was in Darwin at the end of June visiting my daughter, her husband is in the Army, first time I'd been there and I felt the nasty sting of the midgie things then, hurt like hell. Funny what the WW2 blokes said about the mozzies changing gear as they got close to you. LOL. Son-in-law is being transferred to Adelaide in December, so I won't be going north again, but I enjoyed my 9 days there. Unfortunately....if that's the right thing to say....I didn't do much sight seeing as the trip was really to be with the family who I hadn't seen for 3 yrs. I would have liked to have seen more, but we went to Litchfield Nationl Park, that was nice and I loved the city (town) the thing I noticed most about Darwin was how clean it was....and the people were very used to tourists and it was just great. My daughter lives on a base at Berrimah...all very secure with guards on the gate etc.
