Sunset at White Cliffs Opal Fields, Broken Hill Australia

Watercolour 38 x 28 cms. I played around with the foreground applying coarse sand with rice glue on the WC paper to get some rough texture of gravel, sand and stones.

Accommodation in an underground dugout motel on Smith Hill was comfortable and like a warren of passageways easy to lost oneself in.
In the evening we walked on top of the roof of the Motel to watch the amazing sunset. Some climbed the hill up from the outside of the motel, the others climbed the stairs up from the inside of the dugout.  Few pictures were taken where one of our co-travellers acted as a “Roboman” for fun creating amazing shadow.

 

Lachlan River floods NSW

 Watercolour 38 x 28 cms   Lachlan River  & Menindee Lakes floods NSW

I have taken numerous photos from the train trip from Sydney to Broken Hill (NSW).  Floods around Lachlan river & Menindee Lakes came very close to the railway tracks. Water everywhere with patches of grass & red earth poking through, trees marooned in the water.