No stopping Bill Treichel, 95, as he paints Australian outback landscapes onto bottle tops

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No stopping Bill Treichel, 95, as he paints Australian outback landscapes onto bottle topsWith an eagle eye, Bill Treichel applies his paintbrush to the tiny bottle top in front of him."I like to paint from about seven until nine in the morning because the light is generally pretty stable … after that, it gets cuckoo," the 95-year-old said.Bill spends hours each morning in his art studio — a converted caravan at his rural Millaa Millaa property about 100 kilometres inland from Cairns."And I was flicking the bottle top in the air, and all of a sudden, the idea popped into my head, and that's how it started."He paints a white background onto the base, then the sky, before deciding on the landscape."

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