Flowering Eucalypt with gumnuts and Wattle

I needed a present for someone and the inspiration was the red flowering eucalypt with gumnuts & wattle I see in the streets. Watercolour 30 x 20 cms.

Australian Natives

Australian Natives ... I cannot help myself, I just love painting them. To get a "mottly" varied effect in the background I used salt in the wet pigment. Painted on WC 300 gr paper with WC & acrylics.

 

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.

 

Rainy Melbourne

Rainy Melbourne
Watercolour 39 x29 cms
Years ago I did this painting at a Merroo Workshop with Herman P. and have decided to tackle this difficult subject again hoping it may turn up somewhat better. Not a chance. I think I will abstain from Street Scenes in the future.
 

Imaginary Landscape

Just a little imaginary landscape practice in oils. Canvas size 29 x 24 cms

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.

Forgotten House in a countryside (Australia)

Watercolour 28 x 38 cms Forgotten house somewhere in the country