Mountain Daisy series , inspired from some trecking I did with my family last summer around some beautiful mountainous scenery of New Zealand. I love to get outdoors as much as possible. I did mountain daisy painting and then I felt like doing more, they are a fun series to do. I have to be […]
How to overcome Artists Block
“What I like to do is look at my portfolios of old paintings I did back when I had inspiration. I also look at any other artwork that I left off with, and try to put myself back where I was before I’d lost my inspiration. Sometimes, I’ll go back to places I used to […]
Painting with a Palette knife
Painting with a knife is a bit like putting butter or jam on bread and produces quite a different result to a brush. Painting knives are excellent for producing textured, impasto work and sweeping areas of flat color as well as tiny shapes of color. Strictly speaking, a palette knife is a long, straight blade or spatula that is […]
Karangahake Gorge
Had a nice walk through an old mining site which used to have a train running through 12 kms of tunnels in the Karangahahe hills. This walkway features historic railway remains in a stunning natural gorge setting, including 2 steel truss bridges and a 1km rail tunnel and provide access to the relics of historic […]
Bush walk
Saw some amazing flowers and wild life on a treck we did not far from Tauranga. We walked for 3 hours up into the hills and on the way spotted a deer up stream and later I discovered these beautiful bush lilies. The weather was good and I did some sketches of the bridge and […]
Routeburn and Caples Track
I had a great time doing the Routeburn and Caples , a 5 day treck in the South Island these holidays with my family. The scenery is so amazing and I managed to get loads of good sketches and photos for future paintings. I definitely recommend the walk to anybody. You have to go well […]
Ruapehu Art Treck
Had a great treck up the Waihohonu Track at the base of Mt Ruapehu. Took my easel and paints with me and managed to get a quick painting done. The light was changing very quickly and the mountain clouds cleared for a short time enough for me to get it down. I ended up finishing […]
Call of the wild
2/9/11 Now with spring here I really feel like getting out into the wilderness again. As an artist I need to get out doors and experience nature . I feel that drawing directly from nature has a good influence on drawings and can put more life into paintings as well. Im gathering up some extra […]
Tongariro National Park Treck
The Blizzard. This Easter weekend my family and myself went on a 3 day treck around Mt Ngaurahoe . There were 9 of us altogether. It took a bit to organise all the gear but was worth the effort. We decided because of the bad weather predicted 4 of us would take a shorter […]
BOG INN
21/2/11 Had a lovely walk up to Bog Inn. Its a Hut built in the 1960’s in the Ruapaehu District. It was meant to be a short drive and walk, but as we soon discovered it took us about 4 hours there and back, by the time we drove in and walked up to it […]