Blue mountains

Our recent holiday at the Blue Mountains has inspired this painting of our bushwalk. It was morning and the light was beautiful- ideal time for a walk to appreciate the scenery.


Meantime I've started T2 watercolour with Susie. We did a still life and I introduced this wonderful colour called paynes grey. Naughty of me but its so gorgeous and dark!






For the gumnuts I used gouache white as it was impossible to get the texture otherwise.

Small painting

A vacation at the quiet end of the Blue Mountains inspired me to paint. We stayed at a huge luxurious house with views and Miss 11 fed the neighbour's horse with apples.


Bilpin and its surroundings are apple orchard country. We didn't pick any although we enjoyed an apple pie and ate lots of fresh apples.

Mangrove Cooks river

I've been working on this painting for a little while, on and off. It's a mangrove clump on the tidal Cooks River.


What I like is the reflections of the tree on the water, which is moving. Cooks River is a great spot for cycling and walks at high tide but not so great at low tide.