Last weekend Dom and I headed out of the city and made our way to Bowral in the beautiful Southern Highlands of NSW.
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I have been adding some salt to my paintings lately to create texture. Adding salt can also be helpful for correcting mistakes :)
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Well that was fun. I started this painting today and I finished it 3 hours later. That's not like me. I fuss and fiddle and sometimes take 3 or 4 days to complete a painting.
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It's raining today in Sydney and I can't hear it on the roof. That's one of the things I don't like about living in Sydney. I can't hear the rain when I'm inside. Another is the traffic. The relentless bumper to bumper battle whenever you want to go anywhere in your car.
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I recently tried painting a Chrysanthemum on Ampersand's Aquabord. Aquabord has a textured clay surface. The finished painting is varnished and doesn't need to be displayed behind glass. It's quite different from painting on watercolour paper. It gives you the ability to lift underlying layers off easily to create highlights.
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I have been up and down this year. I went through a period of sadness where I doubted myself and my ability. I questioned what I was doing. I was fearful of the future.
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I've been dreaming about vectors, textures and clip art lately. Histograms, layers and grunge brushes are all I can think about!
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Back pain and I have been old friends for about a decade or so. Most people suffer from back pain throughout their lives so there are no surprises there. However, surprises have a way of sneaking up on you and in June this year I was given the biggest surprise of my life.
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The sky is rumbling overhead as I write this. How I love a good storm. I'm uploading some of my paintings onto a file sharing site so that I can send them to my art agent in the US.
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I'm supposed to be painting but I thought I'd tell you how watercolour has captivated me. My life long love affair with drawing and painting has had so many twists and turns.
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I’ve been living in Sydney temporarily for the past 18 months or so and one of the perks of living in the city is having access to art supply shops. Where my home is on the Mid North Coast of NSW, art supply shops are pretty scarce.
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My day begins around 6.45am. Dom sets his ipad to wake him at 7.00 and I usually wake just before it goes off. He puts his ipad on snooze and spends the next hour turning it off every 9 minutes.
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We all feel up and down at times. It’s part of life. As I am slightly melancholic I can be up and down several times a day. I can begin the morning close to tears and end the day feeling like a kid in a toy shop. I have mellowed with time and I have discovered ways I can manage my down times.
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A Visit to the Zoo. I am always looking for reference material to base my paintings on. I am very grateful when photographers from all around the world give me permission to use their photographs as reference. Although I am no photographer, I do use my own photographs as well.
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I am a wildlife artist who specializes in watercolour and acrylic paintings.
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