Sunset for APR

Today I went down memory lane.

My eldest daughter is turning 21 in a few weeks

and I have been trawling through

thousands of photos to find the embarrassing ones,

as well as some cuties.

The photos brought back such lovely memories

and it reminded me why an artist is so important.

An artist captures a memory,

so that we can remember an event,

time or place. 

A painting is often a stepping stone

for memories to come flooding back.

This weeks APR theme is sunsets

and this is the sunset I see each day.

We live on a bay on the east coast of Australia

but we look back towards the west

and this is the sunset over Manly.

We are not lucky enough to have a beach

and so it's over the mud flats.

I have had this view since I was 15 years old

(mum and dad still live just up the road)

and I have so many memories

of this area.

It's where I grew up and where my kids have grown up

and luckily the view hasn't changed.

So here is my sunset,

painted very loosely,

with a very naughty curly bit of paper.

It's a little sploshy

but I kinda like it that way.

To see what other people have done

for sunset,

hop on over to 

Jenn's

Artist's Playroom.

I have a thousand more photos 

to go through.