Phuong's creative side

Phuong, DL student, Cabramatta

Hi, my name’s Phuong and I’m from Vietnam. I’ve been here for 7 months and I’ve been studying by Distance Learning with my teacher, Frank, for nearly 4 months.

When I came to Australia, I wasn’t really acquainted with life here. It’s very different to my country. It caused me to feel a little bit bored and stressed, so sometimes when I feel weary, I do my favourite activity - water colour painting.

I have liked painting since I was a little girl; however, I’ve only known about water colours for the past few years. In my opinion, water colours are very light and limpid and when I see them, I want to use them to colour in my drawings. I know I don’t have a good sense of colours. My first painting with water colours looked really terrible! I didn’t know how to control the water and the colours. But I persevered and tried to study tutorials from the internet. I practised a lot and learned from experience. After one year, my water colour paintings started to look better. My favourite type of water colour painting is portraits. Painting the outline is hard for me but I’m trying to learn and practise when I have time. Completing a painting makes me very happy and I always paint to relax after a hard working week.

These are some of my water colour portraits I’d like to share with you. Hope you like them!

    

Thanks Phuong for sharing these wonderful paintings with us and congratulations on mastering this creative new skill.

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