After the working bee Cheryl and I meet one morning to check out our paint collection and start a bit of our own investigation into the site of Mary Mackillop's first school “St Josephs School in Penola South Australia” to get some ideas of what the school house looked like the colours of the landscape and the type of native plants, trees, bushes and grasses.
So we started to paint our vast calico backdrop. We started with the sky, hills, the base grass and dirt.
We were then joined by Mandy, who bought a new perspective to the project. The three of us started trying out 3D techniques on scrape paper until we were happy with the result then we applied this to the canvas. We started on our rocks then sheep, trees, detail of bark leaves and branches. Then on the home stretch we added all our grasses, bushes and plants.
When the last brush stroke was painted we stood back to look at what we had achieved we were quite pleased with ourselves. We hope you enjoy the fruits of our labour. It was a pleasure to have been involved in a small part of the production it truly is a school community effort.
So we started to paint our vast calico backdrop. We started with the sky, hills, the base grass and dirt.
We were then joined by Mandy, who bought a new perspective to the project. The three of us started trying out 3D techniques on scrape paper until we were happy with the result then we applied this to the canvas. We started on our rocks then sheep, trees, detail of bark leaves and branches. Then on the home stretch we added all our grasses, bushes and plants.
When the last brush stroke was painted we stood back to look at what we had achieved we were quite pleased with ourselves. We hope you enjoy the fruits of our labour. It was a pleasure to have been involved in a small part of the production it truly is a school community effort.
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