Flood Painting is Finished & Another Lamb

Well, my flood painting is finally done and ready to send off next week. After my motorcycle accident and numerous other distractions at home, my deadline was approaching fast.

I am very happy with it. It is difficult to photograph it with the reflections of wet paint on the canvas, but I've Photoshopped it a bit and it's not too bad, though the right hand side is a bit lighter.

I quite like the weight of the glowering sky. I had some trouble with getting more perspective at the front, but have carved a light path (headlights) up to the gate opening. I have done some heavy crosshatching at the top and lots of light vertical lines on the water below to give the impression of the rain falling. It actually works!

It goes into the exhibition at the Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, from 3rd Nov to 18th, to coincide with the Water Water Festival. Then it tours to the Maffra Exhibition Space from 15th Dec to 20th Jan 2008.

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Another lamb born this morning with no problems. 'Weeksie' has been our most problematic lady we have.

She was always the one to run in the opposite direction when we were herding them, confusing the others and taking them with her. We really disliked her off and on, though she has settled somewhat now.

We called her Weeksie because of her funny little horns. My man's twisted humour chose it because a friend of his (Weeksie) is renowned in the romance department, thus transferring that through his convoluted thought processes to our ewe being a 'horny little devil'. Go figure.............

But it has stuck.

Apart from that, she gets a bit wool blind and peers myopically at you over her tufts of wool in front of her eyes.


She is also a real shorty. The new baby has already to get on his knees to get a drink. Imagine how difficult that will be when he gets bigger.

But she has lambed easily, so I am grateful, and we will love her a little more for a while.


Yesterday's babe is doing well, after a night with Mum under the carport. It's amazing how quickly they get going and start to fill out.

"It's only a matter of inches, but skipping gets me just that much closer to heaven. "

.... Jessi Lane Adams

Seaview Morning

Sometimes the light is just right, and this morning it was. There was some cloud cover which seemed to make the colours richer. The shadows are not too stark, but there is plenty of contrast for interest. I was going out to photograph a particularly beautiful area on a nearby road, but time got away again and the light changed, and my feeling of well being.

I was fondly waving my beloved off for a weekend boys-own motorcycle sojourn and took a heavy fall onto the gravel! Needless to say, he continued riding on oblivious of my distress, and I lay there pondering on how youngsters fall all the time and get up and go on. Oldies like me need a week and counselling to recover .........

So a photo of a view from out veranda had to suffice. Nursing a bruised and skinned knee, I staggered out later to the studio and this painting came into being.

The steepness of the terrain still carries good pasture for grazing, and the slopes become 'stepped' by the cattle feet.


This painting is 8" X 10", oil on canvas board, and is available for sale @ $100. unframed. Please email 'robynrinehart@dcsi.net.au' for details.

"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
.... Blaise Pascal

Landscapes

I have never done landscapes. I have always found them somewhat empty and boring. I always liked to have something happening in them ... animals, people, trains, boats, whatever. What does that say about me?

I live in such a beautiful place, and look out on spectacular landscapes every day, so I am trying hard to get going on some, and get really interested enough to keep going. I look at other works and try to find what it is about them that inspires me.

The internet is such a distraction, with so many talented people doing wonderful work, it can also confuse and dilute ideas.

BUT, I have started some small landscapes today, and post one here which I am very pleased with .............

This is a view from a property belonging to our friends.
It is 8" X 10", Oil on canvas board.
It is for sale @ $100 unframed.
Please email robynrinehart@dcsi.net.au if you are interested.

Note: my flood painting is drying ready for its next coat.

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
...... Henry David Thoreau