Mixed Media on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

This artwork comes with an external frame

Warm colours and highlights in soft pinks, ochres and yellows celebrate the form of grasstrees and eucalypts. A lone cocky flies up through the valley.

The painting style is drawing-like and loose, it is about capturing a memory of place the same way you would in a sketch. I begin with a thin quickly applied base coat of acrylic often blocked in in two or three colours. Once this dries I sketch in a composition in charcoal and then there is usually 1 or 2 layers of more broadly blocked in acrylic colour, where shapes and shadows start to come out. Some layers are thinner and more glaze like. I leave evidence of the charcoal drawing and the base layers with each additional layer. Then the acrylic layers are worked over with thicker impasto oil paint. I work back in with charcoal or pencil whenever it seems some definition, texture or shadow is needed.