One of my favourite places to drive to is Sherbrooke Forest in the Dandenong Ranges (around an hour out of Melbourne). I take lots of photos when I go and I've been trying for a while to work out how to get the forest into my paintings. I've been finding it difficult because I'm not sure how much realism and how much abstraction to use, I also know it will make my paintings take much longer to create with so much detail. I might make it one of my goals for the year to figure it all out.
Here are a few photos I've taken. The tall misty trees in the background are Australian Mountain Ash (
Eucalyptus regnans) which according to wikipedia is the tallest flowering tree species in the world.
These two photos were taken on the edge of Alfred Nicholas Memorial Gardens/Sherbrooke Forest.
