Castro

This is the 2nd dog portrait I've painted to send up to Port Macquarie - I've done quite a few pet portraits by now, and I'm happy to do more. (There are some more animal portraits on this page) .

 

 

 

As well as the portrait, creating the background is always fun. The sky was also quite pink before it became blue but I don't have a photo of that moment . 

I can find right now.

I've since painted over the shadow in the clouds, I still want to add more light in the eyes

 

 

Castro is a miniature bulldog who I'm painting for Rachel from a couple of photos

 

King St by night

This is a painting I started sometime earlier in the Pandemic, which I just got back to, working from memory. I'll go to Newtown Station with it some evening very soon and see how much has changed

 

 

This photo was shot under daylight

 

Construction Equi[ment

A UV painting of construction equipment next door, and a leafless deciduous tree - So I better finish it soon before leaves grow back. The equipment has already left, but I have a few photos

 

 

A photo in daylight

 

Golden Grove

 Darlington Installation Project is on the left

 

 

Golden Grove street with the corner of Abercrombie St on the left. On the corner is Darlington Installation Project, a gallery in a shop window where I'm showing "Shadow Boxing" at the moment, with the big painting of Damo its named for surrounded by East Coast politicians and health officials  and Sydney landscapes.

Coffee Table

 I finished this coffee table for Patrick that I started a while ago. With all the rain in Sydney earlier thie year  it became really hard to work on wood and keep things dry.

 

 

The finished table with a few pours of molding epoxy resin to hold it all together.Near the end when there were just a few  remaining holes and a meniscus that had hardened around the edge where I dammed the epoxy I made a couple of small mixes which I coloured with a tiny bit of fluoro pigment - yellow, pink and deep red violet 

 

 

Much earlier in the process(there's more info and images from earlier in that here))

 

Blogger loads images in an order they alone understand. Anyway this shows the main pieces of timber assembled before I started filling the slots. The timber with the larger slots is frome a staircase stringer(the piece at the sides where the steps and risers are set) The pine piece with slightly smaller 'X' slota must ne for something similar, I guess.

The pieces of old kitchen chairs I used to fill some of them turned out to be made of peeper tree, the smell of (a relative of black) pepper was very strong when cut or sanded. Pink pepper trees grow feral along railway tracks in Melbourne. I've also seen members of that family grown ornamentally. They aren't tall or straight but grow quite massive, (and chairs don't require long straight pieces)

 

 

Epoxy doesn't stick  to polyethylene so these bits of shopping bag were great to stop the base from sticking to the workbench, or the top while I finished them and they dried

 

 

I floated 2 pieces of shiny aluminium leaf onto thefirst pour on the top. This is when it had dried enough to pull the dam from around it

 

 

Polyethylene separating the pieces

 

 

A couple of close-ups of the finished piece