World traveling was definitely off the itinerary for most of 2020 due to the lock-down situation, so I developed an idea to explore the world through books and internet. Actually, this series began before the lock-down, I was keen on doing landscape paintings of Japan and used google earth to explore locations there virtually. Due to copyright rules on Google I decided not to use source material directly, instead I brought together a variety of sources and came up with a highly original design based on visual and thematic ideas. In this scene, Australia is depicted almost like wallpaper, with repetitive elements. There are 9 green trees, 9 burnt trees, 9 piles of rocks, 3 swamps, 3 snakes, 27 tufts of grass, 1 road, 1 kangaroo, and 1 crocodile hiding. What stuck me about Australia was the huge variety of landscape, the design tries to capture many such elements from the interior. I decided not to show beaches or reefs because many other countries are defined by those features and I plan to do one such painting for each country. Australia was the last painting I needed to complete countries with the letter A (use blog page or labels to see the others). Next up, countries that start with the letter B, do you know what the first one will be?
Australia, World Inspired Landscape, 12 x 12" cold press, watercolour, September 2020
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