Pastel Painting: Blue wren on a twig
Sometimes things come together perfectly, the bird lands in the right spot with a good active pose so that you can see its face, the...
Pastel Painting: Crimson rosellas
We are very lucky in Australia to have a number of brightly coloured parrots, like the very common crimson rosella. It was the white...
Pastel Painting: Ringtail possum
Different possums seem to dominate the areas around different campsites, and at Junction Pools in Barrington Tops National Park ringtail...
Pastel Painting: Leaden flycatcher
One thing that can be said about our Australian bush is that it is almost never tidy and I like my paintings to reflect this messiness....
Pastel Painting: Tree martins at Barrington Tops
A flutter of tree martins landing on ashes left in an abandoned campsite, was the inspiration for this painting. (I wrote a blog post...
Pastel Painting: Firetails
I have an unwritten personal rule that every camping trip has to result in at least one painting in order to justify the expense of my...
Pastel painting: Pademelon in the undergrowth
Laura and I spent some time one morning during our recent camping trip to D"Aguilar National Park, taking photos of this young red-legged...
Firetail mini-painting
I have been quite impressed by the efforts of some of the 'painting-a-day' artists in producing small works quickly with very free loose...
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....
Pastel painting: Silvereyes in wild tobacco
This picture is maybe not one that I would normally have chosen as the subject for a painting, but Laura was visiting for one of our...
