Trees
This gallery shows sketches and paintings of trees in the landscape.
Grey box
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The magnificent Grey Box tree is native to the local Flinders flora reserve near where I live. My dog, Amie is sniffing for rabbits. Can you spot the rabbit?
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Acrylic on silk on board.
Dimensions - 45cm x 30cm
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Fire Tree
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This desolate tree holds on to a parched, firey landscape.
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Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 25cm x 20cm
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Available in shop, $45
Pike River Trees
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This scene was painted from a sketch of the Pike River plain, which is part of the Murray River system near Paringa in South Australia. The dying trees show the struggle due to lack of water flow and rising salt table.
Watercolour pencil on paper
Dimensions: 40cm x 30cm
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Tree Rhythms
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This abstracted tree was done with soft watercolour pencil which has been rubbed away to create the wavy underpainting.
Watercolour pencil, paint markers and acrylic on primed clayboard.
Dimensions - 220mm x 220mm
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Mantung Mallee
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This mallee tree was painted during a weekend stay at the historic old general store in Mantung, South Australia, now restored as a holiday home.
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Watercolour and ink in mixed media sketchbook.
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Honeymoon Vine
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This sketch was done at Honeymoon Vineyard, Echunga, in the Adelaide Hills.
The property is as beautiful as the Honeymoon wines.
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Aquarelle pencil, ink and coloured pencil in mixed media sketchbook
Winter Vine
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This painting was inspired by the McLaren Vale wine region, with rolling green hills and pruned vines in a wet winter.
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Oil on Canvas
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Sugar Gum
This large sugar gum had a forked trunk, with only the right fork showing in this drawing. The tree dwarfed all the trees around and had to be removed, sadly, in July 2021.
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Aquarelle pencil, ink and watercolour in mixed media sketch book.
