Burning Bush

The burning bush that (Australian PM and ratbag prosperity christian) Scott Morrison doesn't listen to

 UV pigments against dark ground is great for light sources, anything that glows - something that can be a problem with subtractive colour

 

UV

 

daylight

Central

Now the smoke has cleared a bit, and I've got a few other things out of the way I went back to Eddy avenue to play around a bit more with this painting of (Sydney) Central and its clock tower. You can see earlier versions of it on this post and collected with some other urban landscapes here

 

Mostly I've been adding definition to the stonework and a little bit of action in the fore and midground, I'll probably go back one last time to do a little more

Spiral in Suburbia

View from the cul de sac - an 80s developer's display village.

I've been staying at my mum's a bit as she recovers from breaking her arm, and this is one of the pieces I'm doing to entertain myself while I'm there. 

 

Outside Mum's place on a cul-de-sac in suburban Newcastle

Black cockatoo

 

One of a few black cockatoos that visit mum's for a feed sometimes, they're impressive birds with great personality

Fire on the South Coast

I saw a photo on twitter(I'll dig up a reference sometime) of a south coast headland looking like a Conrad Martens or von Guerin misty rainforest landscape - but the mist was bushfire smoke from a raging inferno generating its own thunderstorm

 

 

Adding some trees

Like an Eugene von Guerin on fire. Or Conrad Martens with smoke replacing mist on a South Coast headland covered with twisted windswept bush - which I haven't painted much of yet

 

Here's another painting of a huge smoke column in Gippsland from the same catastrophic 2019-2020 fires in Australia

Performing Fleas

Charles Freyberg, Peter Urquhart and Alison Marshal at the Museum of Fleas last September at the Imperial Hotel, this is a small (30x20cm) painting I started during the show, which I might hang in Out of the Dark

 

A bit lumpy here and there, and Pete is still a bit ghostly, this photo was lit with my UV headlamp

 

The composition is kind of together - otherwise a bit messy but as I smear some more leftover colour on it I think it will start to appear

 

 I'm getting back to it now using some stills from the video I shot to jog my memory- I should also finally complete the video edit, sometime I'll find the time

Corella and Lorikeet

A tiny canvas of a corella and a lorikeet I started with a lemon tree and some shrubs behind

I added the colourbond fence - but the birds and shrubs need some work

 

the same under blacklight

 

In UV, and daylight below

Fluoro flower arrangements

 

A couple of floral paintings at my mothers place that I hadn't seen under UV before I took a lamp with me last weekend.

The painting above can be seen in daylight (and earlier versions) here

Fire: Smoke Column in Gippsland

Australia on fire. Smoke spewing from the Gippsland forest. An oil on canvas about 80x60cm (using a shot from the Guardian live blog as the main source)

 

With some more smoke

 

The land and sky mostly finished and only more smoke to add, shot with a mix of UV and regular flourescent lighting . The 2 photos below show the same version under daylight and UV alone

 

daylight

 

UV

 

South coast headlands threatened by a huge fire- this is just some ground colour so far - once there's something there I'll start its own post

Under daylight with a bit more of the bush's deep green painted in, now for more browned off grass and smoke. This was earlier in the emergency when the air feeding into the fires was still clear

The canvas with the ground painted in and shot under 400nm blacklight. Below is the canvas at the same stage with the photo taken under natural light