Tag: peeling paint

Things That Attract My Eye – Part 31!

Featured by communicatingcreatively, posted in Photography

Here is a random selection of images that I have taken over the last month.

The first three are of the outside of the gym I go to. When I was leaving it one early morning, the light was just gorgeous, so I just had to get a few shots.

Two of the images are from a walk alongside a river near us, the peeling paint is on an old car on my Wife’s parents’ property, and the night tree image was taken outside the meeting place where my Toastmasters Club meets.

It pays to keep an out as every day there are beautiful subjects to photograph even as we go about our normal day.

Till next time!

Written & Photographed by David Johnson

30 May 2026

Day 1,249 of a Watercolour Sketch a Day! – “Boat Detail” – Norfolk Island

by communicatingcreatively, posted in Painting

For my daily Art practice today, I chose to do another interpretation of a previous sketch that I had done, which was based on a reference photo that I took on Norfolk Island on our holiday, earlier in the year.

“Lighters” (wooden boats that up until recently were used to unload to, from cargo ships) continue to be an endless source of fascination to me.

Day 1,249 of a Watercolour Sketch a Day

Today I used the following materials:

  • Canson 300gsm Watercolour paper
  • ArtSpectrum Waterproof Pigment ink
  • Manuscript Dip Pen with Mapping nib
  • Winsor and Newtown Artist quality paints
  • Neef brushes
  • Perylene Maroon
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Sepia

I seem to have an attraction to peeling paint and rustic subjects in terms of sketching and painting, which is really not surprising as in my enthusiast photography days the same sort of subject matter attracted me, particularly in early morning or late after night.

Day 1,151 of a Watercolour Sketch a Day
My reference photo

I look forward to doing another version of this as I feel I would like to do one that is somewhere ‘between’ the two sketches above.

Till next time!

Written by David Johnson

3 July 2022