Sketchbook currently on the go!

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The way in which they remain upright on such an incline. Needs more work in the coming week but it’s coming together.

Escarpment
Acrylic on polyester cotton
123 x 123cms

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For my new followers: a few of my favorite trees. Like me they really appreciate your support.

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Distant blue mountains protect the valley of white dusty roads that cut through the olive groves and the persistent orange soil. One of last week’s works on paper. Fast and loose brushstrokes and at times painting wet into wet, something I never normally do, whatever the medium. I am continually fascinated with the ‘long view,’ seeing way into the distance.

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Last of the evening light as it blows across the fields.

Quiet Fields Of Pink
Acrylic on paper
Image area 55 x 55cms

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The next stage on from yesterday’s post and the stimulus was there to immediately do another one. Interesting how the landscape format changes…the possibilities are infinite.

Acrylic on paper
30 x 50cms

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Spending some time working fast and loose and on paper. Working from drawings made during a stay at Kelton Plain on the Monaro last year.

I think of it all as drawing, whether charcoal, pastel or as in this piece acrylic paint. Painting is drawing with broad brushes, sometimes palette knives and copious quantities of paint.

With charcoal, I tend to smudge out if it’s not working and go again over the top. I’m pretty impulsive and try to make the marks add up to something surprising.

When it comes to painting, the design of the work…composition, structure and colour are paramount and if it isn’t delivering early on, I’m happy to scrape the paint off and enjoy the mistakes for what they are! The important thing is to inhabit the painting during the process and make sure the final work is alive!

On The Monaro
Acrylic on paper
Image size: 52 x 42cms

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Like a sentinel! Moreton Bay Figs never fail to amaze me. Native to eastern coastal Australia, they can grow up to 60m high, the trunk massive with thick, prominent buttressing.

Acrylic on board
40 x 50cms

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Located about 1 hour east of Alice Springs, the East MacDonnell ranges reveal themselves in all their true colours. But you have to be quick. The light moves and the shadows with it. Rocky peaks catch the sun and quickly recede. This is Arrernte country.

Acrylic on board (dyptich)
50 x 80cms

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The stillness of Jesse Gap in the Northern Territory.

Acrylic on board

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I think of the landscape as an aspect of time, one moment in time. And with that in mind, I feel I am on a continually evolving path, accumulating experience but always starting over.

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Browsing old sketchbooks on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Stuffed full of memories!

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Standing Tall.
Acrylic on board
43 x 43cms

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Melaleuca trees by the lagoon. I’ve been back to this little family on King Island several times and always enjoyed the pale leaning trunks and the small clusters of foliage at the crown of each tree.

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Late afternoon light and long shadows in the Outback. A work in progress but the looseness is working for me. Deserves another session next week.

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Crows Nest

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Tall golden grasses, tracks filled with pockets of rain and big skies to match.

Monaro Plains
Acrylic on board
63 x 63cms

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