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Staring at the sea: revisited

Staring at the sea: revisited

This week I reshare one of the most influential seascape paintings from my childhood. My original blog prompted a flurry of corrections from my wise aunts.

Staring at the sea: revisited

This week I reshare one of the most influential seascape paintings from my childhood. My original blog prompted a flurry of corrections from my wise aunts.

Beach painting with kite in sky

Let's go paint a kite

There's something joyful about kites. And something joyfully tricky about painting them too. This week, you can enjoy the feeling of flying a kite with four summery seascapes from my collection.

Let's go paint a kite

There's something joyful about kites. And something joyfully tricky about painting them too. This week, you can enjoy the feeling of flying a kite with four summery seascapes from my collection.

Painting of aeroplane flying over ocean with ships in the distance, framed and hung on a wall

Staring at the sea

This week I share one of the most influential seascape paintings from my childhood. Can you see its imprint on my imagination and my own creations?

Staring at the sea

This week I share one of the most influential seascape paintings from my childhood. Can you see its imprint on my imagination and my own creations?

When a painting takes 3 years to shape up

When a painting takes 3 years to shape up

Seascapes 51: week 23 (after a hiatus) Hats off: this week's textured seascape creation had many iterations over 3 years before I proclaimed it done. And then it surprised me...

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When a painting takes 3 years to shape up

Seascapes 51: week 23 (after a hiatus) Hats off: this week's textured seascape creation had many iterations over 3 years before I proclaimed it done. And then it surprised me...

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Detail from seascape painting

Where to start? Tips for painting a seascape

Seascapes 51: week 22 A lovely school teacher friend recently said she had a class about painting the sea coming up. Did I have any tips about how to get...

Where to start? Tips for painting a seascape

Seascapes 51: week 22 A lovely school teacher friend recently said she had a class about painting the sea coming up. Did I have any tips about how to get...

Sunrise, sunset

Sunrise, sunset

Enjoy the sunrise and the sunset at Britannia Bay in this week's Seascapes 52, as a celebrate the opening of the Seasonal Colours exhibition. 

Sunrise, sunset

Enjoy the sunrise and the sunset at Britannia Bay in this week's Seascapes 52, as a celebrate the opening of the Seasonal Colours exhibition.