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Weekend Walk

I haven’t painted a beach painting for some time, and thought it an ideal subject for a painting demonstration. I needed new source photos for the painting, so I organised family members and their dogs to meet me at the local Perth dog exercise beach on the Easter weekend for a photoshoot … and then it rained. It kept raining solidly for 10 days, which is unheard of in Perth, so I started on the background of the painting, occasionally peering out of the shed to curse myself for leaving things to the last

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