A Series of Small Landscapes continues

Further in the series of small landscapes, really an ode to my adopted town, is this one:

Rooftops, Oil on canvas, 320 x 340mm

 

This painting is from the west side of town looking east across to St Stanislaus College, a high school for boys perched on the top of the hill, with rusty rooftops in the foreground. When deciding on a vantage point for painting this series I was generally looking for a foreground, a middle ground and the mountains in the background. This is what sets a town like Bathurst apart from some other country towns - always the views to the surrounding hills. I took a photo and then worked my painting up from that, back in the studio. Sometimes I will paint en plein air. I think you have to be pretty organised to do that and have all your materials handy. Also you have to have more time as passersby stop to talk. Rather nice really.

Looking East, Oil on canvas, 320 x 340mm

Both of these works sold in my last exhibition in November.