The Rougettes at TAP gallery

 Last night was the opening of Martin Walsh's show at TAP gallery, and Raoul brought the Rougettes along to play

 

Fairy Wren

 When I was picking garlic at Bundagaree for a few days  in December the fairy wrens were working the area for insects. I took a few photos and now I'm trying to turn that into a painting

 

 

Willie Wagtail

 A request I'm painting for Cathie Brooker

 

 

Fig Tree (Victoria Park)

A couple of the Moreton Bay Figs near the pond in Victoria Park

 

 

 

Meshky at Moshpit

 The fabulous Meshky at Moshpit on thursday

Isaiah Riley and Thomas

 Isaiah Riley raps and sings accompanied by Thomas on guitar. This was at a fundraiser at the Red Rattler for victims of Genocide in Gaza and Sudan

 

 

 

 

 

Hungry Birds

 I'm making a little painting for Jimmy Willing to thank him for putting on Strictly for the Birds  at the Joy Love Studio in North Lismore, as well as the Real Gone Hickups shirts he gave me. It's another painting of this whistling pigeon everyone loves along with one of its lorikeet mates, from Robert Smith's backyard in Concord

 

 

 

 

 

Icecream Bean Leaves and a Fig TreeTrunk

 A couple of sketches

 

Vanilla bean leaves from a tree at Bundagaree (or maybe North Lismore?)

 

 

Base of a (Moreton Bay) fig in Victoria Park

 

KRAMPUS at Moshpit

 Krampus is a horned, half-goat, half-demon creature from Central Europe folklore who punishes misbehaving children during the Christmas season.

 Last night he dropped in to MoshPit to check on all us, um, kids. along with WhatEva, The Garry David,and Terrificus

 

WhatEva

Terrificus

 

 Garry David (featuring Bob Blunt)

 

Currawong

Currawong in Leichhardt 

a bird on the road outside my house

 

 

 

Sudan Palestine fundraiser at the Red Rattler

 I went along to a fundraiser for victims of war in Sudan and Palestine - one that could only be promoted word of mouth because of fear of Israeli apologists' intimidation. They obviously know facts and world opinion are on their side!

 

 

This is Isaiah Riley and Thomas singing some lovely songs accompanied by Thomas.

 

 

 

We're all dead - Josh Shipton .

 

Eventually we're all dead, so let's play - joyfully - while we are here

A closer view

 

 

This is a sketchy rendition of Silver Foxes, Anousheh and Josh

And I wish I'd taken a note of the name of this act, a keyboarder accompanying a singer playing guitar . Please someone fill me in

 

Thanks to everyone for entertaining us and contributing. We also watched a video made by a student who has lived through the bombardment, starvation and genocide, the constant displacement from ruin to ruin, freezing/boiling leaking tent to freezing/boiling leaking tent

Halloween Grace

 Something I started working on from a drawing and photo

 

 

Halloween Mona Lisa atm

 

 

Fancy tussock grass and a Tesla

 

 

Some fancy tussock grass in the local park

 

 

Tree and a Tesla on Glebe point road. Some might say Nazi car - but the beetle wasn't all bad, despite its progenitor

 

Suburban Bukowskis and Balkan Grill

 

On Saturday afternoon I went down to Moshpit to see the bands (also Delusions of Grandeur) in between getting a little bit too out of it

 

 

Benito di Fonzo with Suburban Bukowskis (Peter Fenwick and Justine Wahlin and ? on bass

 

 

Ned Alphabet with Balkan Grill

Spaceship Jam

 I went to one of the regular Art Jam's at Campsie Spaceship to draw the players and check in on the scene out there

 

 

Gabe (on the keyboard) with ? and ? on guitar and bass (I'll fill in the names when I manage to find out)

 

 Patrick(twice), Martina and James

Balkan Grill at Moshpit

 I went to Moshpit on thursday to see Ned Alphabet and Balkan Grill play along with Victa and Rightful Loners

Balkan Grill

 

Victa

 

Rightful Loners

Sasha modelling

Tuesday was another life drawing night at the Spaceship in Campsie. Thanks to everyone especially Willow for putting it together and leading the session, and Sasha for her great posing

 

 

 

 

Reclining on a leopard

 

 

 

Thinker with boot

 

 

 

 

hand signals

 

 

With that leopard again

 

 

 

Josh Shipton and the Blue Eyed Ravens

 I'm doing a painting from a drawing of the band I did a few months ago

 

 

 

 

Here are a few photos of the painting as it is now under UV light and varying amounts of indoor and daylight