On our first day at the Heritage Dock, I walked on board the old ferry 'Kanangra'. How different from the days when I rode in her to work each day!
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| The top deck is our workspace - an art studio and a Mens Shed. |
Freshly red-painted windows were laid out to dry on a bench - the golden afternoon light flooded the interior - here was a painting subject and I started work with pencil and watercolour .......
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| Warm afternoon light through an orange tarpaulin, cool blue interior. |
Back at home, I could take my time and develop the subject. Because the only available canvas was not a matching rectangle, I had to adapt the original sketch and bring the window frames more to the foreground; after all, that beautiful new red paint deserved pride of place.
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The finished oil painting next to the sketch.
(I still want to keep the sketch, so made sure it was safe in a plastic pouch from oily splashes .) |
