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This tractor caught my attention because of the two wheel configuration at the front, as I had never seen this before. I’m sure It’s probably quite common but I didn’t grow up around farm machinery.
Tractors, crawlers, trucks and wagons our neighbour has so much to sketch, I feel I could be here years just sketching his vast collection of vehicles.
Another tractor from the neighbours property, I’m thinking he may have customised this one and made it a real work horse.
One afternoon I saw a flatbed truck passing by Possum Park with tractors loaded on it and couldn’t believe a missed sketching opportunity.
This tractor had more box shapes than the other tractors so it was much easier to sketch using large rectangles.
After I created a set of greeting cards for the Pioneer Park at Dalby I delivered them to their gift shop and couldn’t resist taking some more photos of the tractors.
This was fun to sketch apart from two other machines around it the same colour made it hard to distinguish the crawlers parts.
I love the tractors with headlights it always seem to give them some kind of character.
So I’ve run out of A4 smooth hot pressed watercolour paper so I thought I would try and sketch this Twin City Tractor on the cold pressed paper with a textured surface.
Sometimes it’s hard to sell your artwork if you develop a special bond with them. I’m not sure what it is, this painting just speaks to me.
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