These are from the sunset that i ran off to go see after the other post.

The four in the picture are my coworkers.

On Tuesday i had my first day painting with the artists. Kathleen Kngale is the current star artist of Delmore Downs and i spent the most time helping her with her painting. She is pretty old and her eyesight is going so she needs help making sure that she has the right colors to work with and to turn the canvas every so often. She has few teeth and even less english so communicating is mostly relegated to sign language. The painting that she did the other day (above) depicts the wild plum flowers and fruit that will be blooming at some point this year. The dots stem from ceremonial designs that they paint on their bodies usually when trying to bring fruit, game or rain, or in various celebrations. The white is for the flowers of the plant and the purple is the fruit. I think she started with the orange and red on the bottom layer because that's what i handed her. 

She is quite the eccentric character, often in the store she will grab some sodas candy and a loaf of bread, say something really fast in Arrente (i think that's what they're language is called) ending with "painting money" laugh and walk out the door. One of her daughter's Elizabeth Mbitjana is also working on a painting (below) (i might have to add more pictures and writing later the internet is dying right now)