Mullet Creek

 

 

Wondabyne is on this tributary of the Hawkesbury that you travel along for a bit after crossing the river on the Sydney-Newcastle train

 

Oyster leases

 

 

 

Hills and what were oyster leases on a tributary of the Hawkesbury- seen from the Newcastle train line. It's a sketch for a painting I'm trying to do for my cousin Patrick in England, who was very hospitable and showed me around the pubs etc of Stroud many years ago

Majestic XI (etc) at Moshpit

 

 

Ned Alphabet (left) with Majestic XI at Moshpit many weeks ago. A drawing I hadn't got around to scanning till now. (my computer setup currently is a bore).

 

 

And this is Slack Punks

leaves

 Lemon, money tree and avocado leaves

Landing run

I live under a landing run of Sydney airport so get a chance to observe their bellies as they make their final approach

 

 

 

Paintings from mums

 

 

 

Straggly geraniums

 

 

 

climbing lily and gardenia

 

 

geranium etc

 

 

red azalea

 

 

Kenzie

 

Potplants

 

 

Mother-in-law's tongue, fishbone fern and begonia

 

Unwanted Commission

 

 

A drawing of an old church in Glebe rejected by the person who asked for it ( I didn't make it look like I drew it in its original condition without signage)

 

Writing a ticket

 

 

A couple of cars in the clearway in front of Ochredfern gallery on Botany Rd, and a motorcycle cop writing them a ticket

 

Bonzai Fig

 

 

A small-leafed fig growing in a tiny tray in the front garden

 

Balkan Grill and Dr Robot at Spring Sprung Sprang

 

 

Balkan Grill

 

 

Dr Robot 

September 1st at Moshpit. I wish I'd started drawing the acts a bit earlier in the day.

Thanks to Eva for putting the show on

 

Ducks in the Canal - Greenway Composition

 I've been trying to create an entry for the Greenway prize. The Greenway goes along Hawthorn Canal from Iron Cove, along with the tramline (formerly a goods line) it meets in Haberfield through to Lewisham and Dulwich Hill . From there it continues down the hill to Cooks river. The council are creating a path joining bush remnants and parkland and parks etc along the route.

The prize is or artworks with themes of freshwater ecology, public transport, and the area/environment etc. So I'm sort of converting the stormwater drain/canal into a stream with ducks in a waterhole with a mashup of local landmarks, and a tram.

 

As it turns out I stuffed up the dates so I couldn't enter, but anyway I'll complete ith to maybe enter next year. Though after looking at this year's hang -slung on both sides of some randomly arranged temporary fencing plonked in the middle of a room, and without so much as some hessian backing- why would I bother?

 

Its now been entered in the Glebe art show starting tomorrow evening

 

 This is the finished version

 

 

 

 

Mostly composed. Just about time to start finishing the colour

 

 

 

It needs some buildings in the background, and trees. And its going through its pink phase, next thing is to paint the sky

 

 

Noisy Miner and Camelia Petals

 

Cat on a chair

 A chair that's a mountain precipice!

Leichhardt School Tower

 

Lease Signing Ceremony and On a Train

 

 

Lease signing ceremony at Sydney's Alpha House

 

 

On a train from Newcastle a couple of weeks ago

 

Under Centrepoint - St James

The corner of Elizabeth and Market Sts from Hyde Park in Sydney with David Jones on the right

 

Black Tower!

 A half finished painting I started a couple of years ago. I needed something for the Outlook landscape show at Newsagency Gallery starting tomorrow(14/06/2024), so I picked it up from where I left it at Martin's place, and took it home to work on. I had photos I took in 2022 when I was working on it on site

Peewee

This is part of a set of bird pictures I'mb putting in a group show in November with Yasmina Black and Celia Curtis etc at 107 Projects

 

lantana etc - greenway photos