plein air painting, painting in real time outdoors, watercolor, watercolours, cafe paintings
Thanks Cindy Riach for suggesting this wonderful 6 day plein air painting adventure to Alert Bay, BC. It took us 3 ferries and just over 12 hours door to door and was well worth it. We stayed at the Seine Boat Inn right on the water, a contended troop of 10 in all, 4 painters […]
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This summer, with all the beautiful weather we’ve had here in BC, we become campers! What a nice addition to our years of exploring BC by boat. Last year we got a small tent with sitting headroom only and decided it was just too small. This year we moved up to a 4 man tent
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South Africa letter 4 Our day with Dick started out fine for us but badly for him. When he started his own car at home to come down to meet us, the battery was dead. He borrowed daughter Karla’s car and by the time he picked us up, it had a flat tire. Poor sap,
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South Africa letter 3 Yesterday weather was a bit iffy so we drove into Cape Town to do the galleries. All over South Africa young black men in bright green traffic control vests offer a service of “parking advisers”. They wave you into a spot, vaguely keep an eye on your car while you’re gone,
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South Africa Letter 2 We arrived in Hout Bay from Knysna at around 7 o’clock in the evening after a lovely day’s travel. We stayed with old friends Dick and Carla at their large house for several nights before eventually moving into their beach condo about a week later. Sketching in Dick’s garden. Among other
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South Africa letter 1 We left home on the 4:30 pm ferry on Monday and arrived in South Africa Wednesday morning at seven in the morning. Quite shagged. We had three hours stopover in London Heathrow and just had time to have a nice breakfast for getting back on the next plane to South Africa.
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Please drop in and visit on the Art Crawl! I’m #17 on the art map at 504 Sargent Road, Gibsons, just the next street up from the Arts Building. Walk up the foot trail between South Fletcher and Sargent or drive up. By popular demand the 2014 Sunshine Coast Art Crawl will be open 10:00am–5:00pm
Art Crawl 2014, Paula O’Brien #17 on map Read More »
After our jaunt down the Oregon Coast, we headed inland on a route that would see us visit 5 wonderful artists studios. From Newport, we hit Toledo on our way to visit Clint Brown in Corvalis. Toledo was an interesting small place but Monday morning saw many things closed. We peeked in windows and walked
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Make your own tiny watercolor box from a seamless metal slide top tin You’ve probably seen my tiny watercolor travel boxes made from a mints tin and a smaller on made from a blush compact. Well, my husband definitely wanted a tiny one too but I needed to find another small tin for him. The
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