Black pen, white paint

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Feeling a bit dismal today with a sore throat. I mainly kept a low profile after only an hour at Donation in Kind finding great books e.g. Ondaaje (spelling?) to send in boxes to overseas schools - by sitting around the lounge room adding white paint and black pen to some sketches I did some time ago. One of the beach at Anglesea, the other of a bend in the Werribee River below a golf club.

Sketches of a river and beach

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Life here is very busy, not with getting ready for Christmas, just living in a large household, so there's very little opportunity to make pictures apart from Christmas kind of painting with the two boys to make a gallery from the front verandah. Here are some quick sketches when we were at the Barwon River estuary (where I gathered some seaweed) and another time at Anglesea.

A bent tree near Anglesea

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A photo taken the other day was of a gum tree bent over at the Burnside Youth Camp near Anglesea. I made a sketch based on it but altered it by adding yellow because so much of the bush at present is bright with late wattle and heath. Pen, pencils, pastels. It was good to drive out along the Great Ocean Road, see the colours of the bush, though not slowing down to see the tiny wildflowers that are coming out. Here is the photo, the sketch and variations.