G'day mates - Charles & Gail. Thanks for bringing your artistic talent to rendering our Australian landscape - a little unused church in a farmer's paddock near Wallendbeen, NSW, Australia. Despite saying you felt a little out of your depth, the end result was stunning, and you seemed to have a lot of fun with it, which we enjoyed along the way, and laughed right along with you. Jeremy even watched the video this time, and Alison is looking forward to painting it after watching how you did. Yes, we do have some big ugly spiders, but don't let that put you off.
I‘ve just found you, from checking out videos and books while awaiting the arrival of some watercolour pencils. I normally photograph but felt the need to do something else! Have just bought 2 of your e-books. I was delighted to see you attempting an Aussie image as I was wondering how I was going to practice with all the English projects in your books! Softer light there, whereas ours is harsh, and yes, you can feel the heat in this image. Your demo was mesmerising! Will probably changeover to watercolour tubes soon, after watching you. The eucalypts weren‘t too bad either!
Greetings from Aussie, i love how you refer to the “path” in your painting. That was probably the “main road “ in the outback:) Loved the painting, must have been after a “wet” season to have so much green and grass.:) Like your paintings learn so much from your skill:)
Thank you charles and gail, lovely painting. Nice to see the dogs in by you too. I heard lovely sounding birds. Have you any idea what they are?? Much love from South Africa
Great painting Charles. You don't often talk about your thought processes of how you are going to do a prticular painting (looking for blocks of green & yellow). It would be really helpful for us to understand your thought processes that go into choosing the colours, etc you use. Thanks for sharing this
I read somewhere (maybe in The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes) that the Brit 'settlers' in the late 18thC didn't know how to paint the gum trees. Which is why early pictures look more like Surrey than Oz.
Gday. Peter from Noosa Australia. Hi I am back in the land of the living, ready to paint.. Great job. Your interpretation of the light was pretty close, well done. As always keep up the good work see you next time. Peter. Ps. Rember to be bad it’s more fun than being good.
Thank you for this demonstration.I live in the northern part of South Africa and our climate and vegetation have similarities with Australia.I paint many landscapes of the bushveld and often wondered how you would have painted the scene😊
Chuckling about your kookaburra tree, you had it correct as line in song is kookaburra sits in the old gum tree and almost correct about the Australian black tree, but looked to be a black acacia. Ranch =property or farm, path = track. No Australian could ever be insulted by your chatty comments. Lovely little painting
@@charlesevans7706 We have little, isolated buildings in our area just like this, and as I suggested, one was a school for 7 grades, one teacher, another was a chapel. Out at Silverton, miles from anywhere is a Masonic "temple", derelict but still used once a year for nostalgia's sake.
It's hard for one to say what they may have besides Gum trees. The lighter one in the foreground looks to be a gum tree. I do watch Richard Musgrave Evans, an Aussie painter but that's not watercolors he mostly goes for the pallet knife, a far different job.
@@charlesevans7706 wow What a list, Gum tree Grevillea tree Black She Oak (Allocasuarina) Wattle tree Banksia tree Illawarra plum tree Tucker Bush cherry tree Native frangipani tree Lilly Pilly tree Lemon-scented myrtle tree Blueberry ash tree Willow Myrtle tree Australian pine (beafwood)
I think you might have hit on an idea...ask your fans and viewers to send you pictures from where they live and get your artistic interpretation of the picture.
