Winter Sun Waning

"Winter Sun Waning"

by Shirley Peters

An oil sketch done on location.

The track is called Nulunga Walking Track, and there are lovely beach and rock platform views from it. We are holidaying nearby, and I found these rocks too good: bit rushed, though, as the tide was incoming! And the sun was waning.

30 x 25 cm

Oil on canvas

For Sale $330 (includes postage)

Lobster Jack Beach

I am currently holiday with hubby and we are travelling like grey nomads in our motorhome. (I say 'like' cause I'm not grey, yet.) I've bought my old box easel and I'm having fun painting in oils. Normally I've chosen acrylics or watercolour for these travelling trips, but oils are so easy by comparison.

This lovely little beach is near our caravan park on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. We originally wanted to stay for only one night, but it's so peaceful and pleasant, we've been here 5 nights so far!!

"Lobster Jack Beach" 

30 x 30 cm 

Oil on canvas board

For sale: A$330 (free postage.)

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"La Perouse is not here."

Third painting in my Tasmania Landscape series.

It's based on the history of the Recherche Bay area, where a French Expedition 

visited in 1793 to search for their lost hero: La Perouse.

120 x 120 cm 

Oil on linen

(for sale after it has travelled through the competition season.)

Searching the Bay

Recherche Bay, Tasmania

The second of my series based on the futile attempt of the French 

d’Entrecasteaux expedition to find missing explorer La Pérouse. 

It is named in honour of the Recherche, one of the expedition's ships.

They spent 26 days collecting botanical samples, 

and recording the lives of the Aboriginal inhabitants.

120 x 120cm Oil on Linen

Searching for La Perouse

A view of Recherche Bay, Tasmania Australia.

This bay is almost at the bottom of the world! It is the furthermost point that a car, and a stroke survivor (my husband, Bob) could walk to. We were there in February 2016, and I painted and photographed the site for a future project.

This painting is number one of this project: it is referencing the visit of a French expedition:

"Recherche Bay located on the extreme south-eastern corner of Tasmania, Australia. It was a landing place of the d’Entrecasteaux expedition to find missing explorer La Pérouse. It is named in honour of the Recherche, one of the expedition's ships."

Sadly, La Perouse was no where near here: he had died a few years earlier on one of the islands in the Pacific. 

My figures are like the young French sailors who spent 26 days exploring the area, collecting samples for the scientists on the expedition.

120 x 120cm Oil on Canvas

Preparation for Rain

In February I had time to paint the dam before it filled. 

Of course, we had no idea that it would soon be full and overflowing!!!

Acrylic on Canvas

68 x 102cm

AU$880 plus post

The Pond at the Field

The Pond at the Field

acrylic on canvas

76 x 50cm

$660

One of my favourite camping areas between Bathurst and Orange is Macquarie Fields.

It's just far enough away for the first overnight stop. This was painted en plein air in the heat of January.

Incoming Storm at Jimmy's Beach

A changeable day produced a mess of a watercolour! 

But I kinda like it, rain drops and all.

Jimmy's Beach

Seascape, 30 x 42 cm. 

Framed $500

Ti Tree Snake Gully

Sitting next to this lovely grove of ti-trees I was happily painting, with hubby 

taking photos. The manager drove passed looking concerned but didn't stop.

Later he asked if we'd seen the black snake, normally lies in that spot!

Unframed acrylic on paper

70 x 55cm

$500

Looking to Summer, en plein-air.

I like to paint 'plein-air' when travelling in our motorhome. We have travelled north to Brisbane to inspect a mobility scooter for Bob, and have been slowly returning to Sydney with two night stopovers. Urunga is a small beach town, with an impressive harbour and mangrove tidal lakes.

This painting started in sunshine, and ended with rain! and a mad scramble back to the shore from my rocky perch. And the rain effected the 'interactivity' of the acrylic paint, as it started to run more than I intended. But as often happens, accidents can produce interesting results.

Acrylic on linen (unstretched)

64 x 51cm

$500

New large landscape

First stage for new large project. This is half the image. It is a charcoal sketch of bush land near my home in Mulgoa, NSW.