Hello While I am enjoying the 365 day painting challenge, it is very time consuming to create art, photograph and blog every day while working full time in a busy corporate job and looking after my family. So, from next week I will aim to blog on Sundays and Thursdays. Sundays will be to share… Read More
Happy Tuesday! Where do you get your inspiration from? The most ordinary things can be inspiring. Take the leaves on the bushes growing outside the rented house we are staying in. Their green and yellow leaves were the inspiration for today’s watercolor. I tend not to paint things exactly as they are. I prefer to… Read More
Hello! We’re on holidays for this week at Cape Bridgewater near Portland. We stay there every year because of it’s beauty and rugged coastline. The kids love to surf everyday even when it’s raining. As they play on the beach and surf in the ocean I have time to catch up on the watercolors… Read More
Wishing you a wonderful Saturday. I hope you survived the week and can spend time doing the things you love. Today’s watercolor is a bowl of roses in a blue vase. I used black pen for the outline and then added the watercolor. This watercolor comes from an image in a magazine I found in… Read More
They say that practise makes perfect. They also say that you have to do something for 10,000 times before you become a master. So with this in mind I attempted another small watercolor of flowers and plants on a table. It was a quick watercolor and it shows but still its practise! What I learnt… Read More
Hello there! Hope your Tuesday was productive and amazing! My theory is there is always room in your home and life for happiness, good days, plants, flowers and more flowers. Today’s watercolor is plants and flowers in a yellow vase. This time I drew the image with a black pen and then used watercolor to… Read More
Welcome to Monday! The start of a busy week with most people going back to work after the Christmas and New Year break. Todays’ watercolor is more of an experiment. and is copied from an image in the wonderful book called “The Vintage Tea Party book”. While not the best watercolor painting every produced I… Read More
It’s really hot outside today. Melbourne reached a temperature of 41C with hot northerly winds blowing. The Hydrangeas in the garden are struggling to stay alive. Their leaves shriveling and burning in the hot summer sun. Meanwhile bushfires are burning across Victoria and South Australia. Welcome to another very hot Australian summer. In the meantime… Read More