The location was Darook Park in Cronulla, a beautiful coastal suburb of Sydney.
Here is the first location we visited, I got there at about 7am as I like to paint early morning light. I also like to get at least one painting done before it gets too hot and painting becomes even more of a challenge!
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| Location of my first painting |
There was a nice atmospheric haze in the distance that attracted me to this scene.
The sky was a bit overcast at the time which I did not mind as it gave the scene a quite calm. Here is the painting I did:
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| Early Morning Darook Park |
One of my friends kindly took a painting of me while painting so here it is with my plein air painting kit:
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| Me and my plein air painting kit |
All my gear fits in a backpack except for the tripod. I use a modified wooden case to store brushes, palette, paper, backing board, paints etc. Will post the details of it some time in the future. I have an even more compact kit that I take overseas and in that everything including tripod and folding stool all fit in the backpack.
After I finished this painting we moved off to another location but I spent so much time taking photos of the area and chatting that I did not get to finish the second painting. Here are a couple more photos of the area and group I was with.
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| Fisheries Station at Darook Park. The sun was out by this time. |
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| Members of the Oatley 101 group |
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| Me again |
It is always fun to get out of the studio and paint while outdoors for a while and this was a particularly good day with nice weather, beautiful location and great people.
Happy painting,
Joe Cartwright
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