Drover's Child Painting

Originally from Melbourne Victoria Australia now living in Burleigh Waters Queensland. Yes I live in the lucky country, land of golden soil and wealth for toil our home is girt by sea. I'm just a little bit of a painter just a hobby really. I have though been genuinely amazed at what I have been able to produce in the way of reasonably acceptable art works. I have been working in Photoshop to develop my drawing and composition skills and produced some reasonable works. From these initial sketches if I feel the subject is of note, develop a small oil painting. My technique is somewhat different than the usual as I paint my work in acrylic paints as an under painting and complete the paintings in oil paints. Usually the whole of the painting surface is completely covered with oil paint, the result is I have a painting with good colour depth. I guess this is a little like the masters technique employed by their use of tempera though the modern equivalent acrylic polymer emulsion commonly known as plastic gives the painting greater flexibility and resists cracking. As my top coat of oil paint is quite thin the painting is unlikely to crack unlike the paintings of old.