Dear all,
Today we were all sent to Slabtown! Not, however, a 'town', I discovered quickly on sailing down Grey Road 13 looking for a collection of 'houses' or maybe a church. No, Slabtown is in fact the smallest 'town' I have ever seen. From the out set, it consists of two houses and a waterfall ( albeit a beautiful waterfall), with yet another deceivingly small road sign that meant I drove straight past it and only realized when I started seeing signs for Eugenia and Kimblerly (i.e way off track).
Slabtown is a favorite spot for artists in the area due to it's stunning scenery and vibrant variation in the landscape ( fields, river, waterfall, bridge, gardens etc etc). I had never painted 'gushing' water before and knew it was going to be a challenge but managed to rattle of a couple of pictures of a neighboring barn to build my confidence up first.
John, as always, was a fabulous inspiration as the teacher. He is so talented and I have learnt so much from him during the week; just watching him paint is such a treat.
I am definitely getting more confident throughout the week; having never painted outside before and just scraping the surface with landscapes, I am starting to pick up some useful tips which are allowing me to conjur up a vaguely representative painting rather than a sea of mud.
Here are my mini-barn paintings.. the one of the left needs some last minute tweaks but all in all, I was pretty happy with them.
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