

Pastel painting: Seagulls resting
It is a funny thing but often the paintings that eventuate following our camping trips, are not at all what I might have anticipated. Take our recent trip to Townsville, for instance. Townsville is more than 1500 km north of where we live, and in a different climate zone. On this trip I probably took more than 5000 photos, mainly of birds, including at least five new species that I had never photographed before. So from those photos how have I ended up painting a cormorant, a