Oil's Well That Ends Well

Canvassing Support For Marianne's Canvas

Here's the second attempt at tag-team blogging, a great concept started by my Canadian friend and blogger, Allan Cook. Earlier this week, I posted a light-and-shade photograph of a native Australian bottlebrush at Breaking Through The Paint Barrier and I mentioned what was going to happen next.

I was hoping that expatriate Aussie Marrianne Plumridge, who lives in New England now, would find the time in her busy schedule to paint her version of the photograph and post it on one of her blogs. Marianne has indeed done so and you can see the result at Daub du Jour. Please have a look at the result - and do remember, when you support the tag-team blogging concept by clicking on my link to another site, you are also helping to lift the Internet profile of a relatively new blogger who really needs the exposure. Check out Marianne's impressive body of work and let her know what you think.

Breaking Through The Paint Barrier

Brushing Up On Australian Artistry

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON

Remember how my Canadian friend Allan Cook recently came up with the concept of tag-team blogging? He suggested that he and I post simultaneously on our respective blogs and that I would pose a question on my blog and include a link so that readers could go to his blog for the answer. To see how we did this, just go to Deck Cheney and follow the link.

Now I'm borrowing Allan's great concept and extending it to a regular visitor to this site. Marianne Plumridge is an expatriate Aussie who is based in New England, US. She has a couple of sites, but you can see some of her wonderful art, updated regularly, at Daub du Jour.

Marianne mentioned to me a couple of days ago that she was missing the Australian weather, so I took this shot for her. It shows the incredible green tones of the native bottlebrush, still thriving and healthy despite the fierce drought. There you go, Marianne. It'd be great if you would consider painting this and putting it on your site.