Category: Landscape
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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…
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Pink sunrise – obsession with painting pink clouds and testing Baohong paper
I saw the most beautiful sunrise the other day it was the last day of a weekend away and didn’t get a chance to do much painting so decided to get up early to go for a run and paint the sunrise Plein air. I was able to test out my new Daiso folding chair…
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