by Andy Dolphin | Mar 9, 2018 | awards, landscape, news, oil painting, Woolorama
I was very pleased to hear today that two of the paintings I entered into this year’s Wagin Woolorama have won prizes. Rural Morn 30x25cm oil on board. © Andy Dolphin SOLD Rural Morn placed first in Class 1 – Oils & Acrylics. (This painting had a...
by Andy Dolphin | Mar 6, 2018 | landscape, limited palette, oil painting, plein air, tutorial, video, Woolorama
Wheatbelt White Gum 25x30cm oil on board. © Andy Dolphin I posted this painting back in December and mentioned that I had shot video of the process. Well, I’ve finally got it edited, narrated and posted on Youtube. In the narration for this one, I discuss my...
by Andy Dolphin | Feb 2, 2018 | landscape, oil painting, plein air, sunset
I have actually been doing a bit of painting in recent weeks. I just haven’t been doing any blogging. This will fix that, at least for a while. On a wonderfully hot day a few weeks ago, I jumped in the car and drove around aimlessly for a few hours. I headed...
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 | 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 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...
