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weekly progress report….

I have moved upward and now the rocks are all there, just some refining and corrections to do. I’m hoping the rest will come together rather quickly.

I have reached the other side of the canvas

I am doing something that I don't know how to do, so progress has been slow.

On the plus side, the last three paintings have been accepted for 'The New Zealand Art Fair".

 rock pool painting progress so far ….

This has been slow going, everything seems to go a bit wobbly at first, then corrections and adjustments until it begins to resemble rocks. Reasonably close to the composition of the photograph, but I can’t paint every rock and pebble, so it all becomes a bit of a compromise between how it was and my imagination seems to fill in the gaps.

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a scene with rock pools

a photograph of some rock pools I took off The Esplanade, near Owhiro Bay, Wellington. I seem to choose a subject for painting that I actually don’t know how to go about. Hopefully I am raising the bar each time.