This time I started with a photo of a cabbage tree blowing in the wind, with the Tasman Sea in the background. I like the swirling effect in this, it reminds me of sand swirling round on the shore.
Tag: sea
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20_365 : still on the design trail
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8_365 : still looking down…
Today’s effort is another 8.5×6″ watercolour on card, done using Faber-Castelle aquarelle sticks again. Loving them…and still loving the idea of looking down onto Italy’s landscape and seascape.Not for sale.
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And more painting…
As you can see, I’ve been inspired by Patea Beach this time – and the view out to the cliffs. It really is a beautiful beach on a good day – and miserable on a bad one!
We’ve had Tony’s daughter with us for the weeekend, up from Christchurch, and they got out and about seeing the tourist sites.
Meg’s chemo didn’t go well on Friday and they had to quit the process – so we’ll try again tomorrow.
In the meantime, I’ll just keep painting to sooth my nerves…
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Experimenting…
Well, I’m still working my way through a series of paintings on the sea. To move things along a bit, I decided to have a play with some different materials and techniques.
I’ve had a play with glazes, dry brushing watercolours, scratching back into the paint, rubbing the paint on with a cloth…
I’ve also been experimenting with how realistic an image needs to be before we “read” it as being the sea. I suspect the answer is “not very”!! Our minds are quite happy to go – oh yeah, that looks like the sea.
I had hoped to paint from real life at the beach over the weekend, but it was so hot I couldn’t stand to leave the house. So I paid the bills, finished the paper we publish, chatted to Mum … and painted, painted, painted…
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Water, water everywhere.
I’m still obsessively painting my way through a series of work based on my memories of the sea and sunsets.
Over the last week I’ve played with oil pastels, watercolour, alkyd oils, and acrylics. I’ve worked on pastel paper, white paper, black paper, cardboard…
I particularly like this one, based on my recollection of the tide coming in around the rocks at Mana Bay, Patea.
Today my main excitement was having to wash the kitten’s feet after she landed right in the middle of a very wet painting of the sea and then tried to run off with bright blue feet!! Luckily it was water based paint … but she certainly didn’t enjoy being dumped feet first in a basin of cold water!
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