Category: Landscape
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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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Sunrise over the everglades
Beautiful spot painting Plein air. Sunrise wasn’t as great as the year before different camping spot but the weather held up and was lovely to see he wild life wake up and test out the new arrangement for my kit. Trying to finish my A5 Strathmore watercolour journal. I don’t like the paper as much…
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My first big painting!
This is my first large watercolour painting of a Ken Duncan photo from WA Kimberley’s from his Chasing the light series. I was trying out using sheet paper I didn’t have a board big enough so used masking tape to a new canvas board still in its wrapping. I didn’t stretch the paper and should…
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Hybrid Solar Lunar Eclipse
Caught up on the Livestream of this rare event a hybrid solar lunar eclipse. As I watched the NASA Livestream on YouTube I decided to paint the different phases of it in watercolour. It is incredible that there isn’t any moonlight for the duration of the eclipse. I found the commentary interesting that they described…
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Straddie on the way home
I painted this from a photo taken from our car behind, we were heading home from camping with friends on South Stradbroke Island, what we locals like to call ‘Straddie’. It is a beautiful spot but we had to bring all our own water, showers, there were enviro loos and travelled 40min each day so…
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