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mary-poppins-bert-cockatoos-oilpainting-mia-laing — Mary Poppins and Bert Cockatoos, oil painting by Mia Laing

Shnauzer dog oil painting by Australian artist Mia Laing — Shhh…Shnauzer dog oil painting by Australian artist Mia Laing

chocolate labrador dog, dressed as human, oilpainting by australian artist Mia Laing — Chocolate Labrador looking very suave in his lab coat. Oil painting By Australian artist, Mia laing

Bernese Mountain Dog oilpainting by West Australian artist Mia Laing — Sassy Lassie – Bernese Mountain Dog artwork by Mia Laing

Arctic Fox in winter clothes by Australian artist Mia Laing — Chill Out – Arctic Fox
by West Australian artist Mia Laing

Budgerigar Bird dressed up, australian wildlife, australian artist Mia Laing — Princess off to the Budgie Ball. Artwork by Australian artist Mia Laing

Koala showman, parody oilpainting, australian artist Mia Laing — The Other Greatest Showman – oil painting by Australian artist Mia Laing. A parody of Hugh Jackman, one of our greatest Australian icons…as is the Koala.

Hippie poodle oilpainting by australian artist Mia Laing — Flower power Poodle – getting his mojo on! A parody of Michael Jackson in his cute youth.

Elizabeth, Queen of the Corgi's oil painting by Mia Laing — Elizabeth, Queen of the Corgi’s oil painting by Mia Laing

Fierce But Fluffy - oil painting by Mia Laing — Fierce But Fluffy – oil painting by Mia Laing

Matron St Bernard - oil painting by Mia Laing — Matron St Bernard – oil painting by Mia Laing

Marilyn, Our beautiful Golden Girl. Oil on canvas by Mia Laing

Frida - oil painting by Mia Laing — Frida – oil painting by Mia Laing

20171029-oct17-290144-2 — Alaskan Malamute

20171029-oct17-290147 — Golden Retriever

pelican painting, mia laing, oilpainting 2017 — That Perfect place – oil on canvas 2017, Mia laing

Kookaburra – oil on board – Mia Laing 2017

meetthelocals.oilpainting.mialaing.2017 — ‘Meet The locals’ oil on canvas 2017, Mia Laing

copyright Mia Laing 2015 — ‘Rani’
oil on canvas – January 2015
20×24′

copyright Mia Laing 2014 — ‘Tessa’
oil on canvas – November 2014
10x10inches

copyright Mia Laing 2014 — ‘The Arrangement’
Oil on Canvas June 2014
30x40inches

Oil on canvas 2014 30x40' — Oil on canvas 2014
30×40′
“Furpreciation’

copyright Mia Laing 2014 — ‘Hippy Chick’
oil on canvas – 2014
20x20inch

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Anyone else feel they have gone a little troppo th

Anyone else feel they have gone a little troppo this year? ⁣
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Yep? 🤷🏻‍♀️⁣
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We have wrangled our year through a major house renovation, COVID lockdowns and then welcoming my brother and his family of 4 into our home after aviation redundancies from Emirates airlines in Dubai, Growing our household to a family of 8, for the last 6 weeks. ⁣
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We shuffled bedrooms, borrowed mattresses, had cooking rosters, drank way too much wine and mostly behaved nicely. 😉 ⁣
Because...Family is everything. ❤️⁣
It’s been an incredibly hard and emotional year. ⁣
My lovely brother and sister in law and my two nieces moved to their rental today. I’m so happy they can finally unpack their stuff and try and find some semblance of order and normality as they navigate this new world they find themselves in. ⁣
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Life can be so F-ing hard sometimes. ⁣
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Anyway, thank God for my art and the crazy places it takes me. ⁣
I’ve definitely’Gone Troppo’ this year! ⁣
God only knows how I’ve managed to paint anything this year, let alone my most favourite series yet. 🙃⁣
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‘Gone Troppo’⁣
Oil on canvas 50x60cm ⁣
Original art by @mialaing_artist⁣
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Moral of this Friday night story? Just paint. Tha

Moral of this Friday night story? Just paint. That’s all. Oh, and use your imagination. That’s all. Yep. 🙂

Finally, It’s done! ⁣
Well, kinda, sorta...I’m sure to fiddle with a few glazes and highlights when it’s dried a bit.⁣
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Anyway, this is another in my #imaginativerealism series, also playing with idioms in the titles and subtle commentary on the effects of travel and tourism on our planets ecology, making it more than just a pretty picture. ⁣
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‘Rough End Of The Pineapple’ ⁣
91x91cm ⁣
Oil on canvas ⁣
Paint by @artspectrum.com.au using many of their new colours just launched. ❤️🧡💛💚💙

‘Lasting Memory’ In honour of a very special l

‘Lasting Memory’ In honour of a very special lost loved one. And very fitting for Remembrance Day. ❤️ @bluethumbart

Boyz now available at @yallingupgalleries 🏄🏻

Boyz now available at @yallingupgalleries 🏄🏻‍♂️ It’s in my shop and links straight through to the gallery. 😊 Original reference photo by @ttomwalkerr

👏👏👏Oh @artspectrum you’ve done it again

👏👏👏Oh @artspectrum you’ve done it again! ⁣
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I’ve been trying their new colours today and WOW! ⁣
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Art Spectrum has been my paint choice for the last 12 years. They are a world class manufacturer of oil paints, ticking all the right boxes for quality, lightfast pigments, colour choices and most importantly for me, they are Australian owned and Australian made. ⁣
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They have beautiful new colours hitting the stores at the moment and for a colour lover like myself, they are perfection. ⁣
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I cracked open 17 new tubes today to see how they tinted with white and was mightily impressed with the pastels they created from such vibrant tube colours. ⁣
I’m yet to trial intermixing all the various colours or seeing how they grey out but I did trial of a couple of the reds today on a WIP on my easel and I’m particularly taken with the vibrant magenta and vibrant pink which got a work out on a hibiscus I’m currently painting. ⁣
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The pyrrole orange, a series 5 colour is flippin amazing! I’ve struggled in the past to retain the vibrancy of my oranges, but this one stays bright when used pure and makes the most beautiful coral tones when mixed with white. ⁣Swipe to see a snippet of work in progress. Colour pop!
These colours are definitely going to be on my palette permanently. ⁣
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I’m so excited to see how the other colours can be used. ❤️🧡💛💚💙 ⁣
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I’ll trial the various colours over the next few paint sessions and let you see my efforts. ⁣
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So far, Just perfection. 💙 ⁣
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Here’s a new Varnishing video...you’re welcome

Here’s a new Varnishing video...you’re welcome. 🙃 Yes, I know there are a few golden retriever stray hairs captured here. Don’t worry my OCD followers, I keep tweezers in my studio. 😆 🐾💝

So happy to have been chosen as a finalist for the

So happy to have been chosen as a finalist for the inaugural @gallery152 York Botanical art award, that opened today. I can finally show you my entry...’Bush Ballad’ featuring the Eucalyptus Pleurocarpa (Noongar - Tallerack) also featuring the Australian painted lady butterfly and the Grey Shrike Thrush bird. I’ll blog my artist statement this week. I’m really happy with my entry and hope many Perth peeps will make the journey to York whilst it’s open...closing January sometime! You’ve got time. 😉 The CWA (country women’s association put on a great afternoon tea! )

A fabulous first ever attempt at en plein air pain

A fabulous first ever attempt at en plein air painting, with my gorgeous art gals @alixkorteart @joanneduffyartist and @kateryanart. We followed an hour’s painting on the beach with breakfast and I’m calling it a perfect use of a morning! I’m pretty chuffed with my painting. I’m a true blue, solitary studio painter but I actually loved the time limit and just get it down approach. It needs some fiddling with yet, man those shadows moved quickly, but overall I’m happy. Oil on watercolor canvas using my @leonholmesfineart procade box.

Hi de do! It’s a beach kinda day! This one is of

Hi de do! It’s a beach kinda day! This one is off to catch a few waves in @yallingupgalleries soon. It’s just been varnished and framed in anticipation of departure. @ttomwalkerr photographer

Sending congratulations to my Melbourne based frie

Sending congratulations to my Melbourne based friends and favourite buisnesses as they head out of the tight lockdowns they have endured over many, many weeks. My Favourite paint company @artspectrum.com.au are a family run Melbourne business and I know it’s been a tough journey keeping an essential service going on a skeleton staff. Hope the reduced restrictions feel amazing! Thanks for all the hard work keeping artists at their easels. Hope you enjoy being ‘Social Butterflies’ once again. Oil on canvas 91x91cm.

🌼 Finally managed a couple of hours on this one

🌼 Finally managed a couple of hours on this one...time seems to be in short supply at the moment. ⁣
The good news is...I’ve got not one, but two big paintings drawn up and ready for paint! ⁣
The bad news is...time. Meh. 🙄⁣
Anyway, this one needs a title and I’m⁣ Hoping my word sleuths on here can sort that for me! Ha. ⁣
Delegation is a skill, surely? ⁣
😆 oil on canvas 50x60cm Colours by @artspectrum.com.au

I’ve been having a tidy up and fiddle with my we

I’ve been having a tidy up and fiddle with my website and was wondering how to list a backlog of prints I have available. 🤷🏻‍♀️⁣
To give me an incentive to keep listing them, which takes an excruciatingly long time, I thought I would offer a one week sale on each print as I list them. One or two a week. ⁣
‘When Life Gives You Lemons’ is my first one...⁣
One week only. Up to 25% off and Australian delivery included. ⁣
Please message me for international delivery rates. ⁣
Three variables available - Stretched canvas, paper and a small matted paper print which make great gifts. ⁣
Get in touch if you are after a print other than the lemons or a different size 🙂⁣ See my little shop button? Yep? Thats how you do it...🍋

Some varnish action to start your day off nicely..

Some varnish action to start your day off nicely...you’re welcome. 😊 This painting has now headed down to @galleryaura in Kojunup...because well, sheep. I retitled it and added a few more bees too. ‘Annabella was feeling a little sheepish’ oil on canvas 76x76cm

🔴 What! Wait? Wow! ⁣ Thank you @bluethumbart!

🔴 What! Wait? Wow! ⁣
Thank you @bluethumbart! ⁣
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🎉 ‘Sitting Pretty’ 100x100cm and the largest of my highly detailed imaginative realism pieces has found its forever home. ⁣
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I actually didn’t expect this painting to sell so soon...but paint what you love to the best of your abilities and that will speak to collectors. ⁣
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I’ve got a new big piece on the easel (it’s going to take forever!) and some smaller ones planned. These detailed ones slow me down, which is actually a good feeling...they take pondering and planning, but are so worth the time. ⁣
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So it’s a Happy Saturday greeting from me.. Off to the studio hi ho, hi ho. ☕️☕️☕️⁣
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🔴 Well this one took a month to travel from We

🔴 Well this one took a month to travel from Western Australia to NSW and sold in just a couple of days! Thank you so much Martha...it was obviously a perfect fit for the gallery and worth the wait! 🌸🌸🌸

‘Not so devilish’ is available as a greeting c

‘Not so devilish’ is available as a greeting card from @lalalandshop and I’ve finally decided to let go of the original. Sometimes it’s really hard to say goodbye to favorite artworks and for some reason this one has resonated with me. Isn’t she beautiful? Haha! Tasmanian Devils are anything but beautiful...they are the largest living carnivorous marsupial in the world, but they are endangered. I feel so saddened by the plight of so many species around the world. I’m letting this one go to a forever home. It’s unframed and will need framing. It’s painted on a large sheet of professional art paper (approximate size of image 40x50cm) and I’ll send it rolled in a tube. Australian delivery is included in the price. Contact me for international delivery.

It was lovely to see my artwork ‘sunshine and ra

It was lovely to see my artwork ‘sunshine and rainbows’ used within a @bluethumbart blog today. ⁣You can read it on their page.
It’s an important article on the importance of self care during these unprecedented Covid times. ⁣
I know personally that when I don’t walk daily and eat with care, (and get art time) my mental health suffers as much as my physical health. ⁣
The blog gives some easy and important ways to keep a good head space when all is not great around you.⁣
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💙Hope you’ve all been doing okie during this difficult year? Wishing you all well. ⁣
Mia ‘Sunshine and Rainbows’. Oil on canvas 50x50cm (available)

I wondered how to paint a field of everlasting dai

I wondered how to paint a field of everlasting daisies....so I pondered and painted and all of a sudden this busy bee poked her head out of the flowers...⁣ 🐑
My mum (not Mary) had a little lamb when she was a girl, it’s fleece was white as snow...she called it Annabella. Mum wants me to call this painting Annabella, but I think it needs to be titled ‘Busy Bee’. I painted just one bee 🐝 in to make sense of my title! ⁣
Wahahaha, God I’m a nutter some days. 😆⁣
Anyway...moving right along. This one is 76x76cm oil on canvas and is Available...see that little shop icon? So proud to finally have that!
Next up, a biggie...or a few smaller ones. I really never know until I start! ⁣
Hope your weekend has been filled with sunshine and daisies. 🌸🌸🌸⁣

Smart phone or real camera? What’s your choice?

Smart phone or real camera? What’s your choice? I have both and have slipped into the ease of my phone camera way too often these days. I’ve done daily ‘real’ camera photo projects in past years, a photo a day for 365 days and have painted many of these photos before and yet, when I only use my phone, I’m not nearly as creative. Having a constant library of reference photos, for me, is imperative to my painting ideas and creativity. Do you take your own photos? I need another photo project to encourage real camera usage!

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