Home Paddock Sunset

“I painted this from a photo I took late one afternoon when the sun was giving everything a golden tone as the clouds were moving in ahead of a storm in early November last year.

It was painted as part of a set of four small boards I was using to try out different blocking out approaches. In this one I started with a very low resolution muddy block out just getting the rough shapes and tones in the right places.

The green mass in the centre is a large blackberry bush I have since levelled with a hedge trimmer. The grey above and to the left immediate left of it was a large paddock tree which died in a drought a few years ago and finally fell down in a storm last Autumn. The little corrugated iron shelter in the right foreground was apparently a pigsty but before my parents owned the property.”