Dad's Garden (Hampden, New Zealand) - Photography

 

 

 

Taken at my Dad's place in Hampden, NZ during our February trip home.  In any place my Dad lives in he always creates a beautiful garden with all kinds of activity going on in them. I remember growing up and totally taking our gardens for granted but I did always think of them as a kind of sanctuary. The last three of the bumble bees are actually at my Mum's place in Kurow.

Pollutopian Flowers Experiments 1 and 2 - Acrylic/Gesso/Canvas

Still just experimenting with watered down acrylic and dripping gesso. It gets pretty messy but I enjoy this style of painting. I'm looking for something specific so these ones might get painted over. It is just very difficult to get the end result you want because so much can change unexpectedly. That is the nature of it though and I am learning a lot just from letting loose and enjoying it.