Tag: travel
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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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Japan travel notebook flip through and best bullet journal layouts for busy tourists
Before we went to Japan I had planned to paint my way through Japan and so brought a Hahnemühle travellers notebook to sketch and wash in and a Claire Fontaine notebook to test out for journaling. When we arrived we found out that it was rude to stand and eat and there wasn’t any places…
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Travel sketches – cruise holiday
I went on a cruise earlier this year our first since kids and here’s some of the sketches from my Hanhumule travel notebook. It was the perfect size as I could bring it every where and do a quick ink sketch then paint sometimes on the spot and sometimes later. Also work up early 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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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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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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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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New A6 Plein air journal in leather set up
At our last camping trip I was sitting too close to the fire and some embers out a hole in the zip of my beautiful hand made pink Plein air watercolour colour kit. The zip had just snapped too so since then been hanging out for the black friday sales to find a new one…
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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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