Hunter St Dongas

 

Nearly complete Hunter St Dongas. Someone who seemed pretty committed to the idea was asking today about painting a commission of a building right next door to this so I may be spending a bit more time at Castlreagh and Hunter Sts

I keep getting in later than I mean too, so I didnt get as finished as I hoped today. I might do some more from some photos (cheating...) before I go back in a couple days of and hopefully complete this.

I can't leave it too long - the other landscape I'm doing on Castlereagh is St already obscured by the frame of a new building going up

 

I rushed to get the leaves in(at least the undercolour) before I go away for a week - they may have fallen when I get back, and who knows what else will have changed

Ah, paint on most of the surface now. And a tree trunk! _Lots_ of windows in some of the things I'm working on recently

 

I started filling out the composition today

 

Today I was going to start a painting of the empty Sirius flats from the walkway on the Harbour Bridge approach. As I mixed some paint I noticed a security guard on his radio. He came and told me it is illegal to sit there. Not that I would be sitting much- you have to stand up to see the view. 

At least he was trying to be polite -" It would please me very much if you would paint on the street below.." Anyway the encounter with the riot squad that would surely follow did not appeal, especially alone("Is painting on the bridge a terror offense now?", that would go down well), so I went down into the city and started a painting at a spot i"d noticed on the way there - where yet more old buildings have been demolished while the city is cut off with maladministered public works, this time near the corner of Castlereagh and Hunter Sts.