Blog: On My Easel Today
The To-Do List
Welcome to 2025! I hope your Christmas and New Celebrations were special ones. I have started the new year with two pages of ‘things’ that have been on my ‘gonna’ list for far too long. Plus, one new, daunting item – pack up my studio for the house-painters … I have a lot of paintings,…
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On My Easel
Currently on my easel are a couple paintings inspired by the magnificent landscapes of Kakadu and Arnhem Land. Both paintings are acrylic on stretched canvases. The first is a sunset and smoke from the back burning intensified the colours. Although the actual landscape had dense foliage I chose to focus on the simplicity of a…
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WIPs
Holidays with family and friends are always so special. The two paintings on my easels at the moment are from an afternoon walk we took during our holiday in The Dandenongs, Victoria, last Christmas. … note to self re middle photo, ‘when walking, get one’s breath first before taking a photo’, LOL! Fortunately the second…
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en plein air
Early in Jun I enrolled in a few courses with The University of the Third Age on Sunshine Coast. Two courses are for health and fitness with my husband, the third is for my love of en plein air sketching and painting. Our group meets twice a month and I am discovering some very picturesque…
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Series: Water Birds and their Environment
As the Title suggests, my new series of artworks will be water birds. Unlike some of my other bird paintings of a bird close-up, these will be portrayed within their environment, whether natural or migratory. Over the years my cameras have taken me to wetlands, beaches, rivers, and lakes, to name a few sites. I…
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