Holiday Wrap Up...

 We are home after a pretty amazing time up at the beach

 there is something pretty cool about no longer needing to go on our family holidays

 during school holidays... yet another advantage of Phants being at university

 I swear there were times when we had the whole beach to ourselves

and while I have to say it was decidedly odd and a bit sad 

to go on a holiday without the wonder mutt, we still had a fabulous time

 So fabulous that I did bugger all drawing and painting

there was some of the normal shenanigans

mad conversations involving what we should name our new furbaby 

when we are eventually ready for one

I am favouring Graham or Barry, but am getting hailed down like crazy

of course I also liked Wally because of course you then get to ask Where's Wally

I mean that is a no brainer in my book but Sinus and Phantom Steve

have been oddly resistant to those names

which is a shame as I believe they are genius names

I did sketch up the view that I looked at as I had my cuppa every morning

the beach is just the other side of the tea trees

and I do love the dappled light and sounds of the waves

it is instant relaxation

I also painted up some tomatoes

no clue why, they just happened to be sitting on the kitchen bench

and if truth be told I was in that state of barely being bothered to move

so it was probably more about laziness than anything else

but on holidays that is a good thing

Laziness also led to me not coming to the aid of my darling daughter in the pool

Phantom Steve managed to beach herself like a whale getting out of the pool

I swear her body was out and those skinny little legs were going like crazy

but she was stuck half in and half out and making a decidedly odd noise

she eventually got herself sorted but it was quite something to see the contortions required

she did manage to work out a system by the end of the 11 days

but really I can't quite get my head around why you wouldn't just swim over to the steps

but I long ago gave up understanding what goes on in her brain

and if she wanted to half beach herself multiple times a day then that is fine by me

it was endlessly amusing

I also attempted some sketching of the house across the road

and it has more than a small case of the wonks

there is a decided lean in my sketch that isn't there in the real thing obviously

but hey, I was low on chocolate at the time so I may blame that

plus I had managed to win a card game the night before

I was still a bit shaky as it almost turned into a blood sport

and involved much cheating, throwing of lolly snakes

and heckling that would make the English cricket team proud

so my nerves were shot for days after that and it showed in my drawings I believe

Sketching took a back seat to trying to capture just how awesome the beach was

and it was amazing

sunrise over the water is truly one of the most magical things about our break

and Sinus managed the photo of the trip with his capturing of a blue bottle on the beach

cool photo right

And like all great holidays we have all come home refreshed and relaxed and raring to go

which meant I managed to update the process post from last week as my refreshed brain

managed to find some progress photos

so here is the link if you want to revisit it

happy painting all... xx

My Creative Process Part 2 ...