Dust Approaching Farina 2
56 x 66cms 2011
For Sale from my Studio
Farina is a weird and sculptural place with random posts sticking up out of the ground and small piles of abandoned scrap which were once chookyards or garden fences. This post was once part of a bush telegraph. The oildrum was in a boatyard at Port Adelaide.
I started this painting many months ago but could not resolve the colour of the sky, went on with Fence and a Memory of Two Girls, and left it in a corner. Then, having tried the Farina theme again with what is now the first Dust Approaching Farina, I cleared my mind of dross, printed out an image of Farina as it had been during the dust storm and copied the colour of the sky from the photograph. It contained, in fact, very little colour - just slightly umber (Art Spectrum's Burnt Umber, which is totally different from any other brand) and violet. Nor was there any change in colour between the top of the sky and the bottom - just a great blank deadness. Anyway, having mixed up a great pile of the colour, I then applied it to both paintings and went on from there.
I saw the black-coated man in a sculpture park on top of a fairly steep hill at Broken Hill. It was hot and he was wearing that coat.
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