An oil painting of the ocean view from Schoenmakerskop, off the beautiful Port Elizabeth coastline. I actually took the reference photos back in 2008 and have been wanting to do a decent sea painting for a while now. It was a new challenge which I thoroughly enjoyed it and certainly plan to do more in [...]
Tagged: Beach, Blue, Green, Landscape, Ocean, Oil, Painting, Sea, Seascape, Water
Zhangjiajie has recently become pretty famous for the scenery shown in the movie, Avatar, where they decided to erase the ‘bottoms’ of the quartz-sandstone pillars. Usually the mist/clouds cover the bottoms, but when I was there it was clear. In 1992 the area was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site. There were loads of tourists [...]
Tagged: China, Forest, Green, Hunan Province, Mountains, Oil Painting, Plants, Stream, Trees, Water, Zhangjiajie
Prussian Green
Some time ago I bought someones old collection of watercolour palettes (ice cube trays) with lots of paint still in them at a bargain sale. Of course I was not interested in the palettes, but the paint left in them. One of the colours I transferred to my pallette was Prussian Green – which I’ve [...]
Tagged: Birds, Cartoon, Colour, Green, palette, Water Colour