I decided this past week to finish off some of my ufo’s………unfinished objects 😊 I’m working my way through the pile. This landscape was from a National Park we visited on our long trip around the country. It has been in the unfinished pile for ages, so now there is one less. I think I salvaged it and will hopefully sell it at an exhibition later in the year. 
I do have a lot more unfinished paintings to work through and I will be ruthless. If I can’t make them work I’ll bin them.
In the meantime I had a morning with the local pleinair air group at the beach. Fine weather but the wind was a little chilly, which always makes me sketch a lot quicker. The first sketch is watercolour on cartridge paper.
The next one was a little gouache, looking across the bay.
And then I went for something completely different, a larger acrylic on canvas. I haven’t painted with acrylic for a long time and I forgot how much darker it dries, opposite to watercolour. This is 600 x 450 mm or 24 x 18″. Another one for the exhibition?
Ros Jenke 
The blue bird s a gorgeous blue. It is a lovely painting and is so striking. Of course for the exhibition. And the National Park painting is wonderful. Where is the park? I know so little about the country you live in. My travels outside the USA are only to Mexico, Canada and Hawaii and that is limited. I have only been to a couple of this country’s national parks.
Thanks Judy. It’s in the Kennedy Ranges National Park in the mid north of Western Australia. It’s a big state 2 1/2 times the size of Texas 😊
Just curious-How long did it take you to fly to France?
All up about 20 hours including a 90 minute layover in Doha, Quatar.
20 hours would be a lifetime to me. The longest flight for me was about 4 hours and I could hardly sit still. But to see your grandchild would make it all worthwhile.
Beautiful work Ross
Thanks Zoe 😊
Joe, darned auto correct 😂
These are great!
Thanks so much 😊