Scarborough version 1

Scarborough (version 2)

Past Grandeur

Something different - Girls Talk

Bribie Island

Escarpment Southern NSW

Wetting a line

Escarpment

Cottage in the Southern Highlands NSW

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Peaceful Creek Northside Brisbane

Lennox Heads NSW

Oil on board

Looking towards Nelson's Column London

Northern NSW

Sydney Harbour

Oil on masonite

Oil on streched canvas

Oil on masonite

Oil on Masonite

Oil on Canvas

This is son David fishing at northern tip of Fraser Island - acrylic on canvas board.

Ballarat area NSW

oil on canvas

Wet road Brisbane northside

oil on board

Serious business Acrylic on stretched canvas



Lisa requested this for her office wall it now adornes her bedroom.














Acrylic on paper

First attempt at painting flowers, didn't do much for me, I don't think there will be too
many flowers being painted.

Acrylic on canvas board
Picture of dear old mum's house and garden that she still tends at 91 yrs

Acrylic on canvas board
North Cape Fraser Island Qld

Acrylic on canvasboard

Looking across Coromandel Harbour North Island NZ.

Getting started with the blog.

Still life - my first Painting in acrylic

Impressionist style -

First attempt at oil painting.

The primary purpose for setting up this blog is to keep in touch with family and friends during our forthcoming caravan trips. Theoretically Nancy and I should be in the Northern Territory by now or at least well on our way there. We had planned on getting away by the end of April but I guess Murphy thought that was 2011 not 2010, at least we have a firm date for the delivery of the new van - 2nd week in July now !!! Talk about frustration, we will believe it when we see it in our driveway.
Due to circumstances and as a result of the substantial delay in departure dates we have had to change our original plan of initial shake down trip and then off around the big block by heading northwest to Darwin. Now we will probably do a number of more localised trips initially, such as Stanthorpe, Goondiwindi, Cunnamulla then north to Charleville and take it from there either east back to Brissy or north to Longreach, Winton, Mt Isa or whatever takes our fancy. By that time we should have a fair idea how things are performing and what we need or can off-load.
I am not much of a photographer just point and press, but I will try to capture as much of the scenery and subject matter that I can principally to compile subject matter for painting later on when time permits. Needless to say I would like to paint various scenes as we travel when time permits and SWHTBO has plenty of good books (or Womans Weekly's). We will post on this blog any good or unusual photos and any paintings that might be ok.

As a trial I'll post some of the paintings I've done since I started 18 months ago, see how they go I guess it's better to sort out any problems before we start travelling.