After watching a bad movie (admittedly, with a few funny and moving moments) at the Berkley, I sat on the concrete wall at Mission Bay Beach and sketched these at about 7.30/8.00 last night. Always a lovely sunset there on a clear summer evening. The moon was white, more like the second sketch, but IContinue reading “Mission Bay sketches”
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Mt Taranaki
Sketched this outside today. Just need to learn to make better marks for believable trees. 😆
My first ever (mostly) outdoor painting
I started this back in January or February, before the first New Zealand lockdown. It’s a view from our deck, overlooking our neighbour’s house, in Green Bay, minus a few distracting details (other houses and powerlines, etc.) If the proportions don’t quite seem to match a 24×18 canvas, it’s because the sides of the canvasContinue reading “My first ever (mostly) outdoor painting”
Cornwallis Beach
This is a plein-air sketch from a few days ago.
