killarney cloudscape

Sometimes a sky is so big it leaves you in awe, like this one rising over a homestead and fields of brown stubble on the road back from Killarney towards Warwick in Queensland's Southern Downs. It's one of those skies where the mind can't help but see fantastical creatures in the random forms.

This one is painted entirely with a palette knife, apart from some torn cardboard for the foreground twigs and a rag used for burnishing some borrowed colour into the farthest clouds.

• Acrylic on Italian watercolour paper

• Gel-mounted to oak-cradled marine plywood panel

• Finished with isolation coats and varnish.

• 100 x 70 x 3.5cm