The Amsterdam in Wind

Available now on Daily Paintworks

Watercolour on paper 12 x 16in

I have made a video of the making of this painting. 

It is in real time, with me talking all the way through! :-/

The Amsterdam is a replica ship currently moored outside the maritime museum in Amsterdam. I've take a photo of it, and then used a Dutch master's seascape for inspiration on the background. A fun painting to do in mid-summer here in Australia!

Check out my video, and if you'd like to see more, please subscribe while you are there!

Thanks.

Video:

Learn to Paint Ships! Classic Dutch Style Seascapes in Watercolour.

An Aussie Pub

Learn to Paint! an Aussie Pub. Real time watercolour demonstration, 

step-by-step, with commentary.

Click here to go to the video.

Another one of my 13 new videos on Youtube. 

I am enjoying doing these paintings and creating demonstrations for newbie artists.

I get great comments, and that makes me feel that they are so worth doing. 

I recommend all artists to do this. Very satisfying.

Learn to Paint! An Aussie Christmas Tree Card: step-by-step demonstratio...

My video is on Youtube! STAGE 12 PAINTING BIKES from Le Tour de France

I have been uploading videos to Youtube. My channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/user/sannpet

I'd love you to visit and have a look at them. If you like, you can subscribe and be notified when I upload new ones!

Shirley Peters Paints Le Tour de France

I'm mentioned on national TV!!!
Painting daily stages of Le Tour de France.

The Other Apostles

Watercolour, acrylic

32 x 42cm

$400

London Bridge Drama

Watercolour and acrylic 

32 x 42cm $400

"Two Apostles in Calm Seas"

The Twelve Apostles are a land form on the southern coast of the Australian continent.

Worth a visit!

Mixed media (watercolour, acrylic) on paper 31 x 41cm 

After midnight, packing up the paints.

Here is my 'studio'. It's the dining table in the motorhome, and I have just finished a late night painting from a scene I captured yesterday. I have towels on the seats, and travel maps on the table, in a modest attempt to keep the interior clean and paint free!

Below is a view of the motorhome during the day. We have been travelling through the dry outback to get to this oasis!  Meet Bob and Honey!

Afternoon Light at Anglesea

Second work from our first camping spot on the Great Ocean Road. I love how the sun touches the outcrop and reflects. Worthy of recording, in my mind.
I've moved to a larger pad, so from now on the paintings will be 30 x 40cm, watercolour with some acrylic finishes.

Anglesea Cliffs

First painting in my new travel series. "Anglesea Cliffs" is mixed media on paper. 24 x 32 cm

Bob, Honey and I are travelling along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. It's high summer, and the crowds are gone; a fabulous time to explore the lower edge of Australia.
I'm not painting plein air, but I am painting "on location". That means that I explore the landscape with a camera, and draw or paint from my best shot when I get back to our motorhome.
Plein air has become difficult, as I'm so busy caring for Bob, and dealing with the touring side. With this 'location' method, I feel that the inspiration is fresh and I am keen to get the paints out, in the comfort of my air conditioned travelling 'studio', aka motorhome, at night after the jobs are done.

Returning to an old painting.

I have paintings from years past that still hang and are occasionally sold. This snow-gum is from ten years ago, and now some visitors to my studio have expressed an interest.

So I've retouched the colours, added more detail, even painted the sides. It is now ready ready for a second chance. 

Riding the Alpes

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/292698123554

I'm doing a few 'landscape' Le Tour paintings lately: my two favourite subjects combined.

 This work is one of a "MEMORIES" series, painted in August, depicting a scene from the Tour of France. Rather than a photographic record, I like to capture an impression of a stage, sometimes showing a rider, sometimes a group or team. Sometimes I combine two or more scenes to create the image.
This is a 7 day auction on eBay.

 If you'd like to buy a TDF painting I have 27 paintings from previous years on my online shop.

Watercolour on White Arches 300gsm paper
 31cm x 41cm, (12in x 16in). It will be posted flat, supported by MDF.

Happy customer!

Happy to receive photos of my 3 paintings framed and hung in their home. They are three of my best paintings, so I'm very happy to see them like this.

I've been painting!

Hello fellow Bloggers.
I've been so busy with Le Tour de France daily painting! I paint one a day during July, for each stage of the race. Now I'm just painting them for fun.
Please pop over to my web site to see them all, and the other work that I've been doing this year.

All paintings are 12" x 16"

Watercolour on paper

New daily paintings are available on eBay.

Seller: Shirley_Peters_Art

Works in progress

Hello! It's been a while since I have posted on my blog. I've been busy with an open studio, Christmas, new puppy!, and now I'm working on a new show in May.

These paintings are of a beach on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.

White sand, tanin stained water, lots of dead wood.

Not such a romantic sea scape!!

I'll post again soon, with updates!

Stage 15 Mountains

Sometimes the scenery becomes the star of the show! 

One of the main reasons TDF is so popular is those rolling hills!

This was 30km out from the finish

Ebay

6 paintings of Le Tour de France

Le Tour de France Stage 3 Early Breakaway

A sunny day for Stage 3, and an early breakaway group is my subject.

Watercolour
24 x 32cm
Ebay

Le Tour de France Stage 2 _Sprint Finish with Marcel Kittel

An exciting sprint finish was my choice for Stage 2.

Watercolour
24cm x 32cm
Ebay

Le Tour de France Stage 1

I've started my 2017 Le Tour de France paintings, with Stage 1 featuring Richie Porte in the rain. A time trial race, the riders have to beat the clock rather than each other.

Watercolour
24 x 32 cm
Ebay

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. 

Bridport Warm Water

On our tour of Tasmania, I loved painting the rocks and blue-green waters around the north east side of the island. It as crystal clear water, and such a warm temperature for swimming.

If anyone is interested in visiting Australia, I suggest you spend a month or two in Tasmania. In a motorhome! It has the same attractions as the mainland without the hundreds of kilometres in-between stops.

42 x 30cm Acrylic on paper, 

Plein air painting with a touch of studio work after.

Summer Waves

A Tasmanian Seascape. Painted on location, finished in the studio.

Originally one of my rejects in the corner. It's been slowly growing on me. 

Watercolour and acrylic on paper, 40 x 28cm

Lagoon Stairs

A painting from my Tasmania Travels: I painted this 'plain air' then finished it in the studio. I think this technique suits me: especially painting on paper. It's strong and receptive to watercolour techniques, as well as being good for think texture later. Acrylics dry fast, and the works can be stored in an art folder as we travel in the motorhome. 

30 x 42cm, Acrylic on paper, sale details on my web site.

Wild Rocks at Stanley

I started painting while sitting on the rocks, but soon moved into the van. High tide and rain not my friend! 60 x 42cm

Breakers at Chain of Lagoons Beach

I painted this larger work at the beach in Tasmania. It was done 'plain air' with a bit of fiddling back at the motorhome.  The rocks are always my point of interest as they look great, and recent scientists have linked them to the North America! Who'd a thought!?!

Breakers at Chain of Lagoons Beach

80 x 48cm Acrylic on Paper

$450

Early Morning Rhine

I've had fun re-working this watercolour. It is a typical view of the Rhine from the ship, looking upstream into the morning sun and mist. It was October and the sun was low. Adding the acrylic paint with a palette knife bought the scene to life. Might be a turning point for me.