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Alli Fairey
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Art Teacher since 1987

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My drawing of my pup Cosmo
#art #ink #drawing #watercolour
Drawing in black ink pen of a cocker spaniel dog. Head only floating in white space. Cross-hatched line work with watercolour added for a pink tongue, brown features in the eyes and turquoise splashes along the length of the snout and the top of the head.
December 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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From #thosebarossagirls on Insta
December 2, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Fan Ho brilliance

If you see this, post something monochromatic
A monochromatic photograph by Chinese photographer Fan Ho. Strong diagonal shadow divides the frame from top right cobber to bottom left. Light on the left, dark on the right with a woman standing against a wall in the bottom left of the frame. She is small (1/5 height in the frame)
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Trippy 🫆😵‍💫
#spiroglyphics #ThomasPavitte
Close up of spiralling lines in blue, dark red, yellow and white. The lines vary in thickness. Close up of spiralling lines in blue, dark red, yellow and white. The lines vary in thickness. This image taken from further away than previous photo. Close up of spiralling lines in blue, dark red, yellow and white. The lines vary in thickness. This photo taken further away than the previous shot so that a blue and white image is beginning to emerge from the pattern of lines. Final shot from a distance to reveal a horses head emerging from the pattern of lines. Yellow lines are only in the background and are incomplete. The Spiroglyph is unfinished.
December 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Just popped it into the oven after the fruit mixture cooled down overnight. This recipe is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #ChristmasBaking #BelindaJeffery
Fruit mixture with butter, sugar, port, brandy and muscat in the pot being gently heated. Bottles of brandy, port, muscat and sticky quince syrup….the liquid added to the fruit mixture for my fruit cake. Eggs, flour, grated nutmeg and cinnamon added to the fruit mixture, spooned into a deep square cake pan. The top of the cake studded with hazelnuts and pecans on a floral pattern. Photographed just before popping into the oven.
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Some of my student’s portraits for the practical aspect of this task. Their goal to represent people of impact or importance in their lives experimenting with Namatjira’s distinct style. They each made a series of 5 portraits. Quite a challenge for Yr 7’s #teachingart
Acrylic painting based on the style of Vincent Namatjira’s portraits. A grey haired man with a round face, beard, blue eyes and glasses with a blue T-shirt and dark warm red background. Acrylic painting based on the style of Vincent Namatjira’s portraits. A round faced woman with dark long hair dressed in an Australian Olympic Team zipped jacket with her gold medal against a purple background with dark blue lines on top representing plant like vines. Acrylic painting based on the style of Vincent Namatjira’s portraits. A round faced woman with full, long straight dark hair and bright pink lipstick wearing a mauve top against a purple background. Acrylic painting based on the style of Vincent Namatjira’s portraits. A woman with light, bright blond straight hair wearing a red top against a blue background. Blue eyes with red lippy.
November 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Mr Abbott by Vincent Namatjira. Currently assessing my Year 7 student’s work & one of my students chose this one saying as part of their analysis “his face looks like a mask, hiding the horrors that lie beyond.”
A portrait painting of former Prime Minister Tony Abbott painting in the distinctive style of Vincent Namatjira who painted a series of PM’s. He is wearing a dark suit, white shirt and grey tie. The background is painted a soft peach colour.
November 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Fairey Christmas Tradition, baking Honey Biscuits. First of many batches #ChristmasBaking #germanhoneybiscuits
Cooling rack with freshly baked honey biscuits cut in heart shapes. Freshly baked honey biscuits on oven tray with container of biscuit cutters in the background.
November 21, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Yum! Moist, coconutty deliciousness. Just as I remember 😋
Baked and iced cake. Perfection. Slice of cake on a plate with a piece taken out of it…..little bit of crumb, next to a splade (fork)
November 16, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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She had stacks of these cookbooks and they are easy to find in #OpShops so I am on a mission to collect the ones I remember from her collection & cook up some fond memories.
Photo of price tag on the back of the cookbook. A bargain at $3.49 from Savers.
November 15, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Often find myself feeling sentimental, so I have launched myself into rediscovering recipes my mum use to make and bake when I was growing up. Some of these came from #AustralianWomensWeekly cookbooks. Just popped this one in the oven.
Photo of page from the cookbook of Moist Coconut Cake with Coconut Ice Frosting. Moist yellow cake crumb with a thick layer of icing that does indeed look like pink coconut ice Photo of the cover of Cakes & Slices, an Australian Women’s Weekly Cookbook, first published in 1987. The cover has 3 glass shelves with whole cakes on plates and labels with their names on them. The coconut cake currently in my oven is in the bottom right corner.
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Accidentally bought this guy inside with some dried fern. He was returned to our shade house and spotted again a few days later.
Light brown praying mantis sitting on some dried fern leaves.
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Another cold windy day + my day off, so more sections started today. My Yr 9’s will be looking at doing this as an option for their final practical task to explore techniques they have investigated this semester. Concepts to include the human form #collage #art #artteaching
Collage with painted, printed and coloured papers as a base and a photograph of a woman the feature image dominating the space. Collage with a Gelli Printed base layer in blue/grey tones and a photograph of a child driving a blue dodgem car dominating the space.
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Another section of the concertina sketchbook done. Using the sun stamp to link the collages together to get some flow happening. Pausing every so often b/c of the interesting articles in the #nationalgeographic mags. I have some from the 60’s. Great #opshop finds
Collage of drawn and painted textures with photograph of a diver photographing a whale. Group shot of some oldish National Geographic magazines. Cover stories include ‘Building a Better Athlete’ and ‘Last Tribes of the Amaron’
November 2, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Stormy weather keeping me indoors today so I’m raiding my stash of textured papers, painting experiments and old #nationalgeographic mags to do some #collage in a nifty little concertina sketchbook #art #artteacher
Photo collage using an image of a blond woman and tracing paper sun cutouts Collage using layers of painted, textured papers and a photograph of a man. Collage of natural toned coloured, textured papers with some ink drawn pieces and a cutout of a male figure.
November 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Found a friend #inmygarden while gathering dried fern fronds.
Stick insect sitting in a bunch of dried out fern fronds.
October 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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This is us driving by one on our way to Bendigo……was amazing, I agree with you.
May 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Blue sky with a power tower on the right hand side viewed from below. Jet stream creating a line extending diagonally to the left from the top of the tower. Photographed at Carisbrooke Park, SA
May 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Flaherty Beach, lower Yorke Peninsula SA. Image of the beach at low tide, morning light, overcast sky. View down the pathway to Flaherty Beach, lower Yorke Peninsula, SA. Two figures at the end of the pathway heading to the beach. View of Flaherty Beach, lower Yorke Peninsula SA. Low view of the shallow water at low tide, morning light, overcast sky.
April 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Point Turton: view from land looking along the coast to the west. Rocky coastline with scrub. Point Turton: view looking east along the coastline toward the jetty. Point Turton: view looking down into the water alongside the jetty. A black and grey stingray just under the surface of the water. This spot is well known for stingrays. They can always be seen at this location.
April 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Bold blue sky at Point Turton with three pelican in flight.
April 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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I’m in SA, so certainly down under 😂
Photo of Kewpie Roasted Sesame Dressing on the shelf at Costco (1 litre for $12.99)
April 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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A5 #Sketchbook Studies
Blind continuous line drawing of a bird in ink pen, developed with tonal line work and watercolour. Blind continuous line drawing of a superb blue wren in ink pen, watercolour and coloured pencil. Barbara Hanrahan inspired sun in ink pen. Simplified Seaside Daisy design in ink pen and watercolour.
April 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Purchased my first bottle of ink to use with my fountain pen…..a lovely blue/black which creates a nice range of tones. One dip & managed to draw all these lines….✔️ Ready to start drawing ✒️
Bottle of Robert Oster Signature Ink: Thunderstorm. Image includes swatch card and my fountain pen. A5 page from my sketchbook with experimental lines using my fountain pen and the Robert Oster Signature Ink. One dip of the bib into the ink filled the page.
April 15, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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A selection of my Year 6 Bird Paintings inspired by their encounters with birds (they had so many stories to share). We looked at the work of Katie Nalgood, to learn from her how she paints the birds she notices where she lives in Western Australia.
20 images in a grid of acrylic paintings created by Year 6 students of birds. Each child developing their concept from an encounter they have had with birds. Their work is also inspired by Indigenous Artist Katie Nalgood who lives and works in Western Australia
April 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM