Showing posts with label Fiordland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fiordland. Show all posts

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Mitre Peak

 
When we were on tour in the South Island in February we were lucky enough to play in Milford Sound, be taken out into the sound on a boat and visit the very magical underwater fish observatory.  When we arrived there in the early evening the light was very magical and I snapped a fuzzy picture of Mitre Peak on my phone, to capture the colours.  I knew I wanted to turn it into a painting so the last couple of months I've been working on it, with half my bedroom floor covered in a drop cloth and strewn with paints.  And here it is hanging in our lounge:
You can see how very full of granny squares our couch is...at one stage we had so many granny square rugs we had to keep some of them in the car!
I'm having fun doing some landscape painting...I think next up will be one of the Manukau Heads!

Thursday, February 27, 2014

A cottage named Surprise

Seeing as I spent the earlier part of February charging around the South Island playing my ukulele I thought I'd show you a few photos from our tour.  These are from Gunn's Camp in Fiordland, where we stopped on our way out of Milford Sound and where the cabins were named after racehorses.
Photo by Mark Orbell
Photo by Mark Orbell

I loved this creepy unfinished mural and the way the guy in the butcher's apron looks a bit like Elvis!