Clouds building up, watercolour, 22 April 2019
Three paintings of gum trees at the Gibraltar Falls picnic area, Easter Monday.
Three young trees, watercolour.
Bushland, watercolour.
Eucalyptus
Tag / Namadgi National Park
Mt Aggie
It turned out to be a brilliant weekend weather-wise. A perfect pair of Autumn days. Striking blue skies, a crisp temperature of 17C and virtually no wind. So on Sunday we packed some sandwiches and headed out to Namadgi National Park for a spot of bush-walking and painting. Our destination was Mount Aggie, at 1,421 metres (4,662 ft), which sits on the ridge-line which marks the western border between the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales.
Mountain views, from Mt Aggie, Australian Capital Territory, 17 May 2015
Mt Aggie may not be the loftiest of peaks in the range but it’s summit is readily accessible by a fairly short and easy walking trail. From the top there is a truly panoramic view out over the Bimberi Nature Reserve and Kosciusko National Park and even down to the Bogong Range in Victoria. We were particularly pleased to see a Wedge-tailed Eagle flying overhead shortly after we reached the summit.
We had a great time drawing and only shared the summit temporarily with another small group of walkers. I tried to capture the ridges disappearing into the distance, using the double spread of my Moleskine watercolour book. I think I’d need 3 double pages to capture the full view.
The view to the northwest from Mt Aggie, watercolour and graphite, 17 May 2015
It was a truly magic day. I’ll leave you with a shot of this small paper daisy, one of the last flowers of the season.
Paper Daisy, Mt Aggie, 17 May 2015
April 25 2013 – sketching
Taking advantage of the ANZAC Day public holiday we decided to pack a picnic lunch and head down to the Namadgi National Park in the southern ACT (Australian Capital Territory) for a spot of drawing.
Our destination was the Orroral Valley and in particular the old Orroral homestead which was built in the late 1860’s. Apart from the homestead itself there is a great corrugated iron shearing shed which was built in the 1930’s and a second house from the 1950’s (which has largely been demolished).
Shearing shed with some of the locals
I spent a lot of time looking around and taking photos so in the end I managed only two water colours.
This is one of the old set of doors into the shearing shed – all the doors and windows have been blocked off, presumably to deter vandalism.
Blocked doorway, Orroral shearing shed
The second is the old homestead, looking at the rear of the building. The house, which consists of four rooms faces the valley wall and Orroral rocks.
Orroral homestead, late 1860’s
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