Painting Miller's Point from top of Harbour Tower.
A small study of the rooftops of the heritage Miller's Point terraces. This painting is still unfinished but is well underway, and has already helped me to sort out some potential problems with the large panorama.
'Miller's Point from the top of the Harbour Tower' 2010-11
oil painting on canvas 61 x 183cm
Painting Miller's Point from top of Harbour Tower. This is my painting for the late afternoon, with the shadows lengthening along the roads and carving strange shapes into the tin rooftops. I want the gold of the last rays of the setting sun to glint on the rooftops and warm the cold brick and tin. For this painting marks the end of an era for Miller's Point ; possibly for Sydney itself. Love it or hate it, things will never be the same. I can see already that this painting is going to be a lot of hard work.
The previous small studies were to give me the courage to start this.
I have chosen a panorama format canvas for this composition, 3 times as long as it is high. The vista spans the Sydney Harbour Bridge, parts of the North Shore, Miller's Point, Walsh Bay Wharves, the Rocks, Observatory Hill,some of Sydney's CBD and Barangaroo.
It will be the quintessential Sydney Harbour painting; from the old Sydney to the new; from skyscrapers to dinky terraces; from pub to park to carpark;from road to wharf to sea.
From the sublime to the gorblimey: Sydney from top to bottom of the harbour.
Detail of 'Miller's Point from the top of the Harbour Tower'
2010-11 oil painting on canvas 61 x 183cm
Detail of 'Miller's Point from the top of the Harbour Tower'
2010-11 oil painting on canvas 61 x 183cm
A ramshackle row of terraces contrasts with the lumpen apartment blocks behind them.
