Painting in a caravan

Today I have been sorting the art supplies that I will be taking on our 2010 tour. Trying our the set up for painting outside, ‘on location’ or ‘en Plein air’ and also the inside the caravan studio equipment.

Small changes need to be made for the in the caravan painting studio to work best. There are certain rules I need to learn to live by.  These restrictions are not always easy ones to make when you are passionate about your creative pursuit, you do not always want to learn to work within the allowed space.

Changes I have made to suit working within a caravan are. 

1/ small palette, so I can work easily on a caravan table.

2/Odourless, non-toxic art materials because the painting studio is also a bedroom and occasional kitchen dining room and I do not like working with toxic substances anyhow.

3/Painting size needs to be small, as in this example of the painting of Daly Waters Pub.

4/Paintbrushes are best with short handles when working in small spaces. I have packed my preferred, long handle brushes for when i work out of doors, en plein air.

5/Pack everything I will need, I know I can always buy elcheapo kid’s quality art supplies in small town but the quality artist supply materials I use, are harder to find and often exorbitantly priced away from the main cities so I do not like to run out, while on a tour.

6/ If there isn’t enough space for the extra cooking pots and the art supplies, ditch the cooking gear and learn to cook in one pan, but never sacrifice art for domesticity. Lol, J

About the painting subject, ~ Daly Waters Pub

The Daly Waters Pub is a ‘must see’, stop over on the trip up through the centre of Australia. Each time we make the journey we stop over for the night, enjoy the famous barra and beef  evening meal with entertainment, camp in the paddock (oops camping ground) shower with cute little green and pale brown frogs (dozens of them ) and leave refreshed the next day.

I have just finished my small flow formula acrylic painting of Daly Waters Pub. I have ordered some prints made from this original work.
 

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