Australian How To Paint

The Passionate Painter

I have always enjoyed being “creative” and when I was young I was forever making some type of craft or sewing. I loved art at school and couldn’t wait for class, but I didn’t believe I could paint, my love being drawing and sculpture. It wasn’t until many years later when my husband David and I were running a business in western Victoria that I found I needed an outlet to take me away from my daily routine, so I decided to pick up a paint brush again after being inspired by my mother who had taken up oils in her later years.

I dabbled in a few paintings of the local scenery and painted miniatures, making them into magnets and put them up for sale

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