Tag: camping
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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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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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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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Camping therapy – switching is hard work
This was painted when we were camping it was pouring with rain so we had some time hanging out in the tent. I used a water soluble graphite pencil to sketch then painted on my A5 Strathmore watercolour journal using Daniel Smith watercolours. My daughter has cerebral palsy and is non verbal and was playing…
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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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My first plein air kit
I started painting again as a way to fill time whilst the kids played in the park. My oldest daughter has special needs so would often fall asleep whilst everyone played and I’ld be left minding all the stuff. So I started sketching then bringing cheap watercolour paints along to paint what I saw. The…
Rachel Fong Art 