I am now into my second term of teaching acrylic painting. I have taught one or two people in the past, which is nice and intimate, but never many more than that. I found it quite nerve wracking at first. Then I really got into the swing of it and formulated a method of showing how to put people into their paintings, without putting too much distracting detail into them which leads to overworked, wooden looking people. The beginning of the second term with new students was also a little daunting, but now I am thoroughly enjoying myself. The experience has also helped me to be less nervous when I am demonstrating painting for an art club.

Still Life With Poppies 12"x12" Oil on canvas

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I painted this still life from my imagination. Must make a mental note not to do it this way again. I should set it up and paint from life or photograph it first.

Prevelly Beach. Margaret River. Acrylic on canvas

Margaret River is a beautiful area of the West Australian coast, and this part of the coast is Prevelly beach. Lovely to look at and lovely to paint.

JERSEY GIRL

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This painting was done from a Photograph that I took while we were in Devon, in the South of England. I risked getting stung with nettles and thistles to get this picture. I didn't really need to go to those lengths as this beautiful Jersey cow wandered closer to us to see what we were doing.

I painted it directly onto flat canvas which I had taped to a drawing board and left sufficiently wide margins so that it could be stretched onto stretcher bars. This saves much messing about trying to paint around the sides of a ready stretched canvas. I like my finished image to wrap around the entire surface.

A Place In the Country 12"x12" oil on canvas

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This painting recently won best oil painting in a local art club exhibition.
I used a dark background to paint on since this seems to give a greater intensity of colour. I drew the image onto the canvas using white coloured pencil then painted upto the line,leaving a dark outline. It was quite tricky because I didn't want to end up with something that looked like a stained glass window.

These two lovely old guys had enjoyed their swim and were just drying off.

Harley and Norton. oil, 12"x12"

These two Jack Russels belong to a friend of mine and
I painted them from a photograph. I think she was lucky that they were so obliging in sitting still. Maybe she bribed them. N.F.S.

The lovely back lighting from the rear of the bar was a challenge to say the least, but so enjoyable to paint.
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This painting was done from a photo taken at the Maroochie River, Maroochydore, Queensland. The storm was threatening and it didn't help that I was stood on a small wooden jetty with my camera poised. I was glad when I had enough pictures. Storm Approaching the River
oil 16"x16"

The Alexander. Acrylic. 10"x10"

Spending time at Sydney harbour watching and playing on the ferries is one of my favourite pleasures.

More Gossiping Than Shopping. Acrylic. 10"x8"

This was just delghtful to paint. The title really does speak for itself.
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First Sunlight acrylic 12"x12"

I couldn't resist painting this beautiful spot in the early morning. O.k. I didn't
exactly sit and paint, I took a photo and worked from that.

Storm Approaching

This is my first attempt at blending colours in acrylic as you would do with oil paint. The beautiful stormy clouds lent themselves to the effect.

I have been an artist ever since I was old enough to hold a crayon