Artist's Palette

Approach to Silverband Falls

My favourite palette is a large traditional wooden one that sits on a painting table among jars of brushes and mediums, and gets scraped off and cleaned with turps every few paintings. It is gradually becoming heavier with coats of paint residue, but I find that half dried out paint can be very useful at times.

Silverband Falls is a local landmark in Victoria’s Grampians just out of Halls Gap. What is amazing about this pretty little waterfall is that there is no pool of

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