by Evelyn Antonysen | Sep 17, 2014 | All things Coastal, flowers, painting, Silk painting, Tasmanian artists, Tasmanian landscape, watercolour
Put together recent trips to some waterfalls and the free, Zen style, semi-abstract watercolours and it is no wonder waterfalls have flowed onto the canvas (well, watercolour paper actually). My aim is to depict the feeling of the cool misty water spray and the...
by Evelyn Antonysen | Sep 6, 2014 | acrylic on canvas, All things Coastal, art, Floral, flowers, painting, pastel, seascapes, Silk painting, Tasmanian artists, Tasmanian landscape, watercolour
It is still a bit cool of an evening but the days have been sunny and clear as we enjoy spring. The camellias and daffodils look so fresh and colourful and I am enjoying the garden delights both in the garden and indoors. This watercolour shows some of my garden...
by Evelyn Antonysen | Jun 22, 2013 | All things Coastal, art, painting, seascapes, watercolour
Some of my earliest drawings and paintings are of birds. It is a subject to which I often return both with painting and drawing and with photography. This, pied oyster catcher, is my most recent bird painting. My reference was a photo I took at the end of 2011 while...
by Evelyn Antonysen | Jun 20, 2013 | All Blogs, photography, Tasmania Photographs
The temperature only reached 11 degrees C today but the sunshine was lovely. Late this afternoon a flock of birds decided to “sunbake” on our nectarine tree. With their feathers fluffed they looked much larger than our little summer sparrows. With no...
by Evelyn Antonysen | Jun 14, 2013 | All things Coastal, painting, Tasmanian artists, watercolour
Continuing with my enjoyment of painting birds in watercolour, my latest two are a plover and egrets which inhabit the local estuaries and coastal river areas. The plover painting is overall more realistic although the background is not true to the original image....
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