shop update

6 months in Spain and France just flew by. I sketched and painted more than ever filling 2 and half sketchbooks and 12 big A3 sheets and 4 smaller A4 sheets. Painting as large as A3 on location was a new thing for me and I totally fell in love with drawing and painting with space for many, many details.

I've just added 14 of these paintings done on new sheets to my shop. You can find them here ...
http://www.scatterlings.co.nz/watercolour_paintings_for_sale.html

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My blog needs a good catchup. I didn't have time (or enough mobile data!) to write any posts while we were travelling so I'll endeavour to do a little catch up with some short posts over the next wee while.

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