I had the good grace of my friends to give me a place to stay away from the bush fires that engulfed parts of the Blue Mountains from November 2019 to January 2020.

I was able to relax from the fires, paint and start framing Christmas presents for the family. Thank you so much for your generosity in giving me a place to stay to work and enjoy your company.

The pencil out line is drawn as a start point I decided to only include a single branch without any leaves to keep the image nice and clean.

My work space, water colour paper, Gouache, iPad with selected images I can zoom in on and paint all the details. A limited pallet of a few basic colours and a few brushes.

Thanks to my family’s gift cards and money for Christmas, I now have more brushes, larger range of colours and some different types of water colour paper to choose from.

Finished artwork on Archers 300g Cold Pressed water colour paper. Unfortunately I forgot to take progress photos this time as I was so absorbed in painting, so you only get the final image.