Painting: Part 3

The rocks in Tasmania were really intriguing because they had large layers of orange algae on them. I thought they would make for some good abstracts, so I tried two or three. I like using paint and pen.

Bicheno Beach

Half Moon at Bicheno Beach

Smaller version

I have learned a little bit about etching from the indigenous art teacher at the school where I've been volunteering. Koorie artists in this part of Australia don't do dot painting, they "etch" which is a type line drawing. I've used some of these types of lines in the paintings below.

I had taken pictures of kids feeding bread to the seagulls at Lake Pertobe, and in the purple painting I took the shapes of the seagulls mid-flight and reproduced their shapes before adding the etching.

Feeding the seagulls

The economic viability and potential "bail out" of Qantas Airlines has been in the news a lot lately, so I was trying for a political statement with their logo and the indigenous etching around it.

Commodification of Australia

I decided to try some etching on a Tasmanian rock painting. I like the concept - think I can improve on this idea though.

Two more in my miniature 4X4 wildlife series. I'm definitely only getting a sense of the animal, not a really good reproduction, but I enjoy trying to capture a bit of their character. The corella is quite a big bird, but obviously these paintings are of different scale.