Last weekend I packed a bag and headed to Wanaka for a brief breakaway with a friend. At the last minute I threw in a pack of coloured pencils with a 'landscape' palette and a block of blank postcards.I'm no landscape painter -preferring to gaze in awe at the Remarkables through my own eyes rather than the eye of a camera or through the lens of my own artistic attempts ... but after a day of breathing mountain air and cruising about on the back roads I did manage to tutu a little (and yes, I even took some photographs which capture some of the amazing depth of colours down there). I might work up the image on the far right into a large painting some time soon, there are some nice textural things happening in it here and there.
