"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

10 February 2012

#07 Song Thrush II

Here's another painting of the birds I spotted the other day; here trying to grab some food :)

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08 February 2012

#05 Australian Ibis

Australian white ibis spotted in South Bank, Brisbane, Aus.

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07 February 2012

#04 Song Thrush

I spotted this bird out of my window this morning. There were actually several of them looking for food. Birds are one of my favorite subjects to paint so I'll probably be painting a lot of them. I'll actually be painting more of this song thrush the next few days as it was striking heaps of great poses for me to photograph!

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06 February 2012

#03 Bagpipes Player

I painted this one from a sketch that I did while in London. This guy was playing the bagpipes outside the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square. There were some street dancers a few feet away from him that seem to be stealing away the whole potential audience. So I had him all for myself and took some time to sketch him on the spot. As I was the only one looking, I had to give him a coin or two, just for being such a good subject in the middle of the London summer crowd. 

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05 February 2012

#02 Attempt

Here is my first attempt (ever, actually) at painting fruits. Definitely have to do more of those. 
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04 February 2012

#01 An artist's tools

Here I go !

Here's my 'first' painting, which I'll be using for this blog's header.

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03 February 2012

Hello !

So, here I am trying to stick to my new year's resolutions: painting every day AND blog about it. Oh and in English, which is not my mother tongue, so it's a bit of a challenge.
I've finally joined in the fun of the 'a painting a day' frenzy- there are heaps of talented daily painters out there who inspired me to start my own art blog.
I'm not usually very good at keeping up to daily challenges, but this time's the one! I can only hope that challenging myself this way is going to make me improve my technique and eventually grow as an artist.

I already paint everyday and have been for a while, the challenge here is to actually complete a painting everyday, a thing that I'm not good at - I have hundreds of "works in progress", which haven't pregressed in a while. So here, I'm gonna try to go to the end of things.

I called this blog "Nomad Paintings" as I will be painting from my travels, past and future ones; It might evolve to a travel blog from time to time, just wait and see ;)

Anyway, hope you enjoy my paintings, looking forward to your commenting!