Category: Landscape
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Hope through reflection
Reflecting on my travels through the valley in the shadow of death, the stark eerie white trees rising out of the water resilient through fire and flood. Through reflection, I can look towards the lighthouse, towards hope in Jesus Christ, my saviour. The inspiration I recall the joy of our first 4wd camping trip, looking…
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Painting the sunrise
One of the things I love to do when camping is to wake up before dawn and paint the sunrise. We often camp near the beach so this is also a chance to practise painting waves which I’ve yet to fully master. I love seeing the changes in colour and find that it’s a new…
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2024 review of travellers notebooks and styles
Looking back at my notebooks in 2024 here’s a round up if the different styles and types of notebooks I’ve enjoyed the most and for the different styles and modes of travelling. The more time I have and using a reference I’m able to achieve a more realistic and detailed painting. But I’ve been trying…
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From the vault: first canvas oil paintings plein air
So it turns out that I have tried oil painting before and plein air nonetheless. I recall I was chosen to go to a special interschool workshop where we learnt the basics and then went to the pond to paint plein air. I was really into impressionism at the time and imagined painting like Monet’s…
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sketchbook – Camping and weekends
Another sketchbook done. This time I was experimenting with sketching with different water soluble inks and doing washes with them. Here is a flip through gif Here are a few of my favourites
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New pastel pallette!
The night before my camping trip I was thinking about all the sunrises I wanted to paint and if you’ve been following my other posts I’ve been trying to recreate the perfect sunrise once witnessed (Pink sunrise – obsession with painting pink clouds and testing Baohong paper). I was refilling my art pocket pallets to…
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Masking fluid waves
I’ve only used the masking fluid once or twice before using a brush but found it tedious to use, a lot of clean up and it ruined my brushes (I already knew to use the old ones). So when I saw the duck bill pen on temu decided to try again and also got a…
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Beach holiday kits – final set up and paintings
So the last few posts have been the set up of my kits however I realised for my holiday I was limited with space and had to make some hard choices. So here’s what I actually took with me and what I actually used. The first kit I kept in my handbag for ink and…
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Reflections of a reflection
I love this picture as it captures our first roadtrip in our new 4wd camping out west in the bush. I usually enjoy painting on roadtrips but it was our new car my husband didn’t want me to paint in the car. So for this trip I did more sketching whilst we were driving and…
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QLD vs NSW covid border lockdown
This is an painting I did with the $2 paint from office works and a cheap art journal from the newsagent. We went for a holiday down at Coolengatta and stayed a street away from where they had locked down the border between QLD and NSW. It was probably the first time I sat down…
Rachel Fong Art 