travellers tales

This past year has been quite a travel adventure to many amazing and varied parts of the world. I cant believe just last week I was snorkeling in the Andaman Sea Thailand, canoeing rivers with wild gibbons and less than six months ago we were in the tundra seeing wild bears and caribou in Alaska.Earlier, just 9 months ago I was cruising the rivers of central Europe.... I have many ticks on the bucket to do list filled, what a hectic year.My philosophy now is do it while you can. After having both my knees causing pain and mobilility problems over the last few years, Ive had several operations which have been a good improvement but I realise time is starting to run out.Hence my painting has been on the back back burner but I have continued to teach between travels and my class has also taken advantage of painting time off to travel as well.
My Classes have started again and its wonderful see all my motivated friends and  painters

Painting Class Noosa Heads Queensland Australia Number 2

The Big Surf Breaker

Living  near one of the greatest surf spots in Australia, its no wonder, painting coastal views is top on the list of most desirable genres to paint according to my class, 

Here is a sample of the work completed  after the first 3 hour session, a few finishing touches will be completed next lesson

First painting class of the year, Noosa Queensland, Australia

The first class of the year is always exciting meeting new faces and welcoming back familiar faces.

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Our new class

Our class is pretty small with only 6, room for one or two more. Our two newcomers shared their love of painting and creativity as well as their desire to gain confidence and new skills. To start the year I did a questionaire to determine what everyone wanted out of the class and it was good that everyone was keen to  improve their skills to paint coastal scenes in impressionistic and abstract ways. Drawing was considered a desirable skill , so I plan on having  it incorporated into the class on a regular basis.