Variations from the Nukutatava painting

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Even though I really don't know what happened to the original painting of the spring in the rock at Nukutatava Beach where we lived one time - given away, lost, eaten by cockroaches, - I at least had taken a photo of it in the days before digital. Anyway here are some variations.

Nukutatava painting and variations

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Nukutatava was our home beside the sea for a while when the children were very young, an ideal place, so beautiful at dawn and we looked out towards the sunrise behind Vorovoro and Mali islands. We had three bamboo walled bures, no electricity, but an on-going fresh water spring that came from a rock, so we had all the conveniences we needed. Over time the coconut trees have fallen, the bures flattened by hurricanes.
Here are some variations of the picture courtesy of photo-edit.

How I used to paint

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I've been cleaning up boxes of papers, chucking out lots of stuff and found two small photos of two acrylic paintings I made some years ago. Heaven only knows where the real paintings are these days! I guess I gave them away. One of of Nukutatava Beach in Fiji where we lived one time, the other is of Stephenson's Falls out of Geelong. Flat shapes then and rather a cold look I think.
(later: I changed the colours a bit using Picasa3 and I think this is more like the original. The other one was too yellow!)