Sunday, 30 March 2014


slow progress

I would like to think this time next week all the land will be completed and then I will begin thinking about the sky. To see a bit closer just click on the image.

Sunday, 9 March 2014


landscape No. 6 in progress

It is in the roughing out stage, I seem to start with the trees first and then work out the landforms from there, making corrections as I go. No logical reason other than one has to apply some paint somewhere to begin ...  then confidence seems to come as I move forward.

Wairarapa valley with trees

_1040091 Panorama-2 by Lester Ralph Blair
Wairarapa valley with trees, a photo by Lester Ralph Blair on Flickr.
a photo I took in the Wairarapa last January, I'm hoping I can make a painting from it. You can check on my progress above .....