One World One Heart 2010 Giveaway

Welcome to my blog and another One World One Heart magical event







 Feb 17th Update
And the Winner is #157 Jan of QuiltSmiles of the Aidironack Mountains, (sp?)


OK today is the day you can all step onto this Magic Carpet, and Journey all over the world.
Come and meet new people and see what they do in life.

I am offering a painting from the amazing area I live in, an extinct volcano Caldera, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere !

I haven't painted it yet, but will begin soon, my blogpost below this one, and after my first early post about OWOH, has some paintings I am working on at the moment.

Any suggestions of which landscape I should make for this giveaway is most welcome. There are a few more Work in Progress paintings further down the blog.

The giveaway will be painted on high quality paper and sent between some cardboard or in a roll tube.

This giveaway is open to all Bloggers taking part in this Magical One World One Heart journey.
Please leave a comment and a link to your blog so I can easily find you, and read all about you.
This is where I live .....just below the mist, on the left hand side where you can see a tree appearing out of the mist.


This may be the view of my next painting and some lucky person will receive a mini version of this to hang on their wall. I call this the 'Mystic Lake' of Mt Warning.

Also there are these two other blogs The Rainbow Chai Tent and  ArtNomadix Tales ( in which I plan to start detailing some of the amazing stories from some of my journeys soon)

A sneak preview of the first stage of the painting as of 7th Feb.

 

Ok I have now updated this post to show the nearly completed painting, I am starting on another variation so that I will have one painting as 'Field Notes' for the larger canvas that I will paint one day.

The second one is starting out a bit differently with the horizon line pushed up a bit higher.

Thankyou everyone for their comments on this post, which as of now at 9:30pm on Feb. 15th Australian time, has closed.

I will endeavour to visit more of the wonderful blogs that have taken part in this years OWOH. I will do my random number drawing tomorrow as there is a large thunderstorm rolling down our  ridge at present and it is time to switch of my computer.

The Paint starts to flow Finally

Well after a couple of weeks of just looking at my preliminary sketches, I finally put brush to palette and canvas. Have been feeling very tired of late, with no energy to feel inspiration.The heat and humidity of the sub-tropical build up, which was early again, has sapped my little available energy.
So yesterday I got going. Learning to use acrylics will take me a while on a canvas of this size, makes me want to use oils, just to have a longer working time,before the paint dries. At least for the broad areas like the sky, it's hard to get the colour down and achieve the right graduation from dark to light or vice versa. Lucky we have some wonderful clouds to paint in it's fore-sky, in this region. I am often taking photos of the amazing formations I see as we drive around the caldera.

Will have to do a canvas of sky, with the wispy clouds I wanted in this one, painted them out as they need more room to properly fit in a sky, along with the lower altitude heavier clouds .




But slowly I'm getting there. Can't start the rest til I get the sky almost right. Feeling happy with the clouds. Might have to just feature the Thunder-head clouds that we've been seeing lately.