Friday, 14 February 2025

Acrylic painting of outback windmill amidst sorghum field, Queensland Australia.


 In this painting, I contrasted the vibrant green pointed shapes of the growing sorghum crop with the silhouette of the windmill and its water tank on a pink and blue sky.  A  suggestion of a flock of crows has been added on the right top of the picture. I've made use of blue tones rather than using black, and my intention is to convey an agriculture landscape typical of  Australia, with a restless, colourful sky at twilight. 

Thursday, 30 January 2025

Acrylic painting of Winton plains from escarpment viewpoint, North Queensland.


To travel out in North West Queensland is to be amazed at a panorama of desert, dust and incredible views from clifftop places.  When I went out to see the dinosaur footprints, we stopped at a lookout. 

This was the inspiration for my painting, which features a stockman, his horse and faithful dog, standing on the cliff, with a spectacular view to the horizon. Truly, Australia is the land of wide open spaces.  The artwork was completed on board, with a thin wash technique to portray the arid outback landscape.  


 In this outback painting, I used a limited palette of browns and muted greens plus black to convey the harsh desert terrain. The scene is derived from the countryside near Winton, North Queensland.  A lonely station hand rests in the shade on a hill overlooking a tree dotted plain.  His horse and dog sit nearby.  The painting is my attempt to capture the vast panoramic expanses that comprise inland Australia. They have a unique beauty of their own.