Tag: Daniel Smith
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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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Jesus is risen! Happy easter with my first themed series of paintings
The theme was messy church and the brief was to paint a series of 3 paintings the cross, the resurrection, a messy church. It was a quick fun challenge (two done in an evening and the final finished the next day) I was asked to do an option for our church sermon series for Easter.…
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Flip through of my Hahnemühle watercolour book over the course of 2024
I started this in 2024 when we went on my birthday cruise with my parents. I thought I would treat myself even though these are super expensive and usually just use it for landscapes or portraits when I’m camping and have more time to paint. We were sick for 3 months of winter then went…
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Travellers watercolor notebook
Loving the travellers notebooks. This is the watercolor paper version and for a 25% cotton watercolor paper it’s thick and can hold water washes, great for sketch and wash and landscape paintings. Portrait it held up under the multiple layers of glazing, and was ok with scrubbing. However at one point felt like I was…
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First travellers factory watercolour sketchbook done
This sketchbook took approx 2 weeks to complete. I had the opportunity to see my daughter’s concert We hosted and watched the first game of state of origin I still find it hard to capture live action. I tend to spend more time on the frame around it because it’s not moving. I also trialled…
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Handmade watercolour sketchbook!
At the end of last year I kept the spare paper from my daughter’s exercise books and have been making little notebooks from the scrap paper just by collating the pages folding them together and using the back of the cover as a cover. Cutting to size then stapling it. It’s a great way to…
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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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Another sketchbook done
First time experimenting with a gif! These are my favourites It was nice to experiment with ink and wash true to the name. Usually when I use that term I think of waterproof ink followed by a watercolour wash. But this sketchbook I experimented with sketching in water soluble ink and then just painting water…
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More plein air kits for the different styles of painting including new warm and cool triad pallete
Since I made the Upcycled makeup case to plain air kit I was looking for ways to repurpose my original A5 kit Watercolour travel kits – tools for Plein air painting and decided to go back to one of the original set ups to use up the Fabriano cold pressed pad. This kit includes –…
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