by Andy Dolphin | Apr 22, 2012 | clouds, issues, landscape, limited palette, oil painting, plein air, sketch, sunset, weather
I’ve not had much opportunity to get out and paint recently but did manage these two quick sketches in the last week.The first was completed in around 15 minutes and was the end result of a “comedy of errors”. I was breaking in a new French easel and...
by Andy Dolphin | Feb 18, 2012 | available, clouds, landscape, oil painting, weather
My latest painting shows summer showers passing over the Porongurup Range.(Scattered Showers. 70x37cm oil on board. © Andy Dolphin)
by Andy Dolphin | Jan 21, 2012 | clouds, landscape, limited palette, oil painting, plein air, weather
I love clouds. There are various types of formations, including stratus, cirrus and cumulus and infinite variations within, and combinations of, those categories.I love them but rarely use them as a subject in their own right. I’ll have to do something about...
by Andy Dolphin | Sep 24, 2011 | news, weather
I went into Porongurup National Park yesterday, my first visit for quite a while. I was with my daughter and her friend, on holidays from Wisconsin, and we soon set about following a trail past the “Tree in the Rock” to Nancy Peak. I’d walked part of...
by Andy Dolphin | Jan 6, 2011 | landscape, oil painting, plein air, weather
Summer finally hit the Lower Great Southern this week. On Monday the thermometer settled somewhere around 35º C by midday and the wind was full of attitude. So naturally I decided this would be a good time to go outside and paint.I plastered myself with sunscreen,...
by Andy Dolphin | Dec 27, 2010 | landscape, oil painting, plein air, sunset, weather
Christmas eve was warm and incredibly humid around here. In nearby Albany, the moisture hung like a veil of smoke over the city through to the early afternoon. I’ve never seen anything quite like it before.Since the evening sky was looking clear, I headed back...
