Down By The Beach

We went down to the beach in Chelsea and Carrum. I brought my trusty watercolour palette and supplies and started to paint. It was freezing, the wind blew, the rain rained and sand mixed in the paint but it was one of those moments when you feel really close to nature. I've never been much of plein-air painter but I understood that need to go out and paint - to really get it down. All the elements were mixing in my pictures (literally!) but I felt that it made the pictures truer as a result.