Mid December we drove out to Young, through the glorious blonde paddocks. What a bumper year for wheat, I hope the farmers harvested in time. The heat was building up during the day...and the flies. I guess they have had big thunderstorms since then.
In this series of paintings from the paddocks of Young, I painted three scenes on one canvas. Have a look also at the quick oil sketches and one small canvas of a scene where we were located looking up a slight hill, from cultivated fields to scrubby bush.
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| Small canvas, a bit of time spent on this one...Looking uphill |
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| Oh another crooked photo! Oil sketch of hay bails in paddocks |
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| Oil Sketch, looking up that hill again |
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| Oil sketch , same hill |
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| Three scenes on one canvas (sorry, a bit crooked!)... experiment. I think it needs some more work. Young is a beautiful country town, loaded with great pubs, an amazingly large range of shops and a prosperous population. The produce is spectacular... figs in February, nectarines, peaches and cherries in December, wine etc etc AHHH |
These photos are from the actual scenes I painted, plus the one at left, with the summer colours of the landscape. Photo of hay bails and church at the top of this post are also scenes in the paintings.
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That hill ...in real life |
