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Waiting On A Friend
painting watercolours, are much like waiting for a good friend!
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art | beginners paintings | color | inspiration | painting | watercolors
Painting Watercolour In The Wilds 6 Tips
Do you want to take your watercolours and go paint out in the wilds of nature, but have held back? Had a few concerns? I used to as well, but now, I love painting outdoors! 6 Tips To Easier, More Comfortable Plein Air Painting These 6 tips really helped me to enjoy painting outdoors […]
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Hidden Artist
Do I create to copy a thing seen? Or do I create to answer the call of my hidden artist I’ve secreted away in a safe place? Hidden Artist There lies buried deep within a spark that will not die an ember that never slumbers a mere breath of fresh air fans […]
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acrylics | art | color | inspiration | painting
Cobalt Teal Blue and Indigo
Gorgeous combination of colours – Indigo and Cobalt Teal blue. Loving the oasis feeling of cobalt teal! Intense, Indigo creates a perfect contrast and brings out the shimmering radiance of the cobalt teal. And it’s all with a brayer. The medium I chose to work in was acrylics. Again, keeping it simple with […]
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Acrylic Abstract Ocean Painting With Turquoise
Abstract painting fast and loose! I was able to create this free, colourful Abstract Ocean painting without a brush in just minutes! Here’s how. Materials For Acrylic Painting: Palette knife, canvas with a coat of orange already on it and 4 colours. Limiting my palette to white, buff titanium, turquoise and prussian helps maintain […]
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Bushwalk: Spotting Koalas
We took a drive up north, up the coast of Western Australia to Yanchep National Park. Out for a nice quiet, peaceful, photo shoot in the natural environment. Just my daughter and I, plus the 2 grandchildren on school holidays; oh! and everyone else’s children showed up too. Obviously, it was the “cool place” […]
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Is Colour Distracting?
Do you think colour can be too bright, too bold, too distracting? Sometimes it is! Bright glaring red, yellow, black and orange colours shout in nature “Stay away, I’m Dangerous!” Bright Colours can be too loud Generally, when painting I like to neutralise and subdue my ‘brights’ so they stop their shouting. I’d like a […]
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Painting The Natural Environment With Recyclables
I fished out the netting from my oranges this week with the plan of recycling. I thought I’d reuse my net for a lovely textural pattern. But I wasn’t sure what or precisely how. .. Yet. I needed to do a bit of research. Recycle Household Items First I did my recycling. My oranges came […]
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Glorious Autumn Leaves
Spring in Perth Australia and Autumn in America! Sometimes its hard to wrap my head around that even though its Spring here in Perth, the autumn leaves are turning their brilliant shades of orange, gold and scarlet elsewhere around the world. A stunning array of orange colours abound in nearly every version I could […]
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French Ultramarine – A Bold Beauty
What a dazzling bold blue French Ultramarine is! Foreign and Exotic. Tempetuous. There is nothing cold nor timid about Ultramarine blue. Bold Blue French Ultramarine Pb29 Paint Ultramarine Blue was originally derived from lapis lazuli which was sourced in mountain valleys of Afghanistan. The Kokcha valley was one of the primary lapis source sites. […]