Sheep at Badgingarra (29)

This painting is of a scene from a photo in a tourist brochure depicting sheep dogs herding sheep along a red dirt track - a common sight in country Western Australia. Badgingarra is a small wheatbelt town, mid-way between Perth and Geraldton, 200km north of Perth.

I found the light in this scene very interesting and it was challenging to capture the brightness of the light playing on the trees and the track in the background and the huge shadows in the foreground cast by the dogs and trees.

It was also a good exercise in seeing the components of the photo as shapes and tones rather than particular objects. For example, the sheep look like they’re one mass, and the dogs are just blobs of black and white (strategically placed of course!)