My next exhibition has a proposed name of Beach to Bush, so I thought it was about time that I started painting some landscapes and seascapes.

This was supposed to be a nice even sky but without a 3inch brush the result was a little banded. I then used a dry brush to try and lift paint off the paper leaving some white clouds, it sort of worked.

The orange cast to the right hand side of the paper was just the sunlight coming through the blinds.

I then added some white paint to make the clouds pop with darker clouds towards the horizon.

Now to add some Australian red dirt to give a nice contrast to the sky, I also worked some hills into the background and a little foliage.

I finally found a use for my fan brush creating some nice tyre marks in the dirt. It also seems to be useful for creating rocks.

Painting all the rocks takes a few hours and the shadows were a little challenging also on this wide panorama. More bushes were added and I love painting the Australian gum trees with their different coloured bark.

The next morning I start working on shrubs and grasses. I always have the same problem with just off white dry grass, too much water becomes transparent and too much white in 30 deg days, it seems dries on the brush failing to come off on the paper.

So this was a painstakingly long part of the painting which never seemed to progress much in the next few hours.

I also re visit the sky with more white clouds trying to graduate them in size to the horizon.

I happened to have a market collection frame in the car with me so I framed it up in that. I’ll be selling this Artwork a little cheaper because it’s not in a professional frame, or I may even put this one up for auction on the opening night of the exhibition in March 2021.