by Andy Dolphin | Dec 15, 2017 | available, landscape, limited palette, oil painting, plein air
Yesterday afternoon, I packed the car and headed north. The plan, as I told my wife, was “to drive half-way to Kojonup”. Koji, as it’s often called, is about 100km north from home and I ended up travelling about 55km to somewhere between Cranbrook...
by Andy Dolphin | Nov 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
I have been out and about with the Albany Plein Air Group in recent months. Here’s a painting I did a couple of weeks ago in the Albany Whaling Station precinct. The White Garage 25x30cm oil on board. © Andy Dolphin And here’s the location shot. It was a...
by Andy Dolphin | Oct 1, 2017 | landscape, plein air, video
Following a long weekend of interesting weather, in which we managed record spring rainfall – and flooding throughout the region – I went out painting on a beautiful spring afternoon, last Thursday. I had been out in the morning with the plein air artists...
by Andy Dolphin | Sep 17, 2017 | plein air
I recently tagged along with the Albany plein air painters – a group of artists who choose a new location around Albany to paint or sketch every Thursday morning. Here’s some of my efforts from the last couple of weeks, including this week’s trip to the...
by Andy Dolphin | Sep 10, 2017 | issues, landscape
A couple of weeks ago I did my first watercolour painting. As a subject, I chose to repaint an old plein air oil painting of a rural shed near my home. My purpose was two-fold: firstly, to have a go at watercolour and, secondly, to fix a few of the problems in the...