Nitsy

 Grace's Jack Russell terrier  Nitsy comes to stay every now and then

 

 

This is more like the colour of the fabric I'm trying to copy, but still no shadow

 

 

Working over the fabric, but not much shadow or depth yet?

 

 

This one should be at thye bottom sinc eits the earliest - maybe I'll move it sometime

 

Nitsy - Grace's funny old Jack Russell, she got her as a rescue dog a few years ago. She's got a few odd personality traits from being left to her own devices as a younger dog, yapping in the backyard, guarding...

So when someone comes in she barks like a maniac, like she's going to bite, and she won't let up without a good pat or bellyrub. This is complicated because one in 20 people she actually will bite if they put their hand close. She's very old, well over 10 so its not easy to change her habits, and despite sharp little teeth she's not likely to do anyone serious damage. And she's a nice dog

She's not keen on other dogs, large or small, except the odd small old lunatic like herself, but otherwise her back goes up, she starts skittering like the Warner Bros Tassie Devil whether its a chihuahua or a Rotweiler. I'm just looking after her so the easiest thing is just to pick her up to get past

Here she's on a bit of psychedelic green fabric on my couch, except for now I painted it in pinks. I've done drawings of Nitsy, most recently here

Damo

Damo drinking a beer after work. 

With the pandemic its been a long time since I got out on the streets to draw portraits of whoever sits down. Pencil on paper is so simple and so profound, a conjuring trick to mirror the soul, the way line speaks to our minds eye

Nitsy

 Grace's dog Nitsy came to stay for a couple of nights, so I did a few drawings while she was here as well as taking a few photos

Here she is with the pots I put her food and water in

Ruff ruff, and a dog with a ruff. This one is from a photograph I took with my  new camera, which I'm also using to paint a little doggie portrait

 

This drawing grew out of a few different poses as she moved around - even an old Jack Russell is pretty fidgetty

Jack of Health - Jokers in Hazzard County

 

 

Get your COVID card marked by Ghunt and Hazzard

 

Frames

  We have a lot of wood to play with here and I hate to see bits of it rot cause it uncovered from the rain and contaminated with radiata pine and some other timbers that promote rot.

And a lot of paintings here too, and they all really need s frame so I've made a few so far as a project for lockdown.

 

I've also made a few changes here on the blog, introducing ads for the first time. At the moment trhe settings are automated, so any kind of ad might appear, so I apologise to anyone who's confronted with anything they find grotesque. As I read the documentation I'll try to make the ads as appropriate to our (ie Vassis and me)paintings and text as I can 

 

 

Creepy George with its frame before varnishing, and below with the health care card - the joker in this case maybe or Jack of Ghunt and Hazzard

 

 

A frame for the painting of Damo shadow boxing which is 1.2x1.2 metres

 

 

Timber for the frame for Creepy George - aka George V with a rose for every woman giving birth outside the old maternity hospital at Prince Alfred on Missenden Road. I'll find links to where these paintings appear in the blog later later

 

 

 

Kerry Chant framed

 

 

A kind of box frame from floorboards to frame Kerry Chant for the NSW libs

 

 

assembled but unvarnished

 

 

Dongas a city landscape from a couple of years ago

Leafless, Deciduous, Tree

A tree I can see across the nextdoor carpark.

Who knows how long till we can get out or congregate, its close to 50 days already now(according to those who are counting), so I want to make use of the time, painting and drawing, but also getting some online sales going

 This is a beginning

Dan (the man) Andrews

 

 

Dictator? That's what Rupert Murdoch's flunkey at the Herald Sun called him anyway, one of the circlejerks trying to impress the boss - sick puppy that he is

 

 

 Its funny how little it takes to change an expression or resemblance, changing clothingand background

 

 

Just now it looks like he's got a huge wad of cotton wool in his mouth, like Marlon Brando in the Godfather, so that's something I'll have to fix.

I'm doing a bunch of portraits of politicians and their retainers, medical officers etc which will all end up over on the political geometry blog. 

And they'll likely serve as prototypes for a Parliament of Fowls convened to decide how to respond and what we birdbrains want, or at least squabble about it.

I've got the panels of a 3x1.5metre triptych propped against a wall

 

Kerry Chant

Wearing the opprobrium for her fake BFF @GladysB 

 

 

Kerry Chant when she recognises she's been had, that giving the Libs the advice they'd accept means she wears the blame when that medical advice proves inadequate - she's gets scapegoated with personal responsibility for the whole mess

 

Figtree in Victoria Park - Oz Banyan

 This painting I started  a while ago in Victoria Park. I've been painting it at home from photos during this 43 day so far lockdown, where case numbers have got worse almost every day! It's riddled with loopholes for their business mates. Bunnings is open in this harshest lockdown! The NSW premier claims no-one can defeat Delta - except the other states have pulled in a few outbreaks ,& Taiwan is close to doing the smae. Now cases will endlessly bleed across state borders, exports of NSW so its government can prove its point. 

They must envy de Santis in Florida.

 

 

 

This is an about 80x80cm square piece of stretched linen, and as ever painted in oil paint

Its a quiet spot where I can stay away from anyone else so I might go back there soon and contemplate the location for the Parliament of Fowls I'm going to get started on

 

 

 

I've done a bit more to this but the plug in my good camera died, so getting photos out of it is a bore just now

Minister GHunt

 

 

Would you buy some used medical data from this guy?

 

Gold Medal Worrier for NSW

ermmm.

 

 

 

 

What a wonderful idea! Solving a medical emergency by transforming it into a Law & Order Crisis and unleashing the AWESOME POWER of the NSW Police. Despite the efforts of reviled horse-punchers the virus must be quivering in its little Borg boots.

 

 

 

 

 

Gladys Berejiklian addresses the daily COVID briefing in a brand new cream overcoat. PRIORITIES, people.  The workers in haute couture logistics are ensuring that people can continue shopping and other essential activities. The mental health savings are enormous. Thus I am able to exercise personal responsibility and maintain a maximum anxiety state for NSW. 

 

Gold standard worrying requires comfort in ones personal life. You can leave the home if you need a root and your boo is not available

 

Prints Available - paintings of Sydney

Prints of my work are available. I have these images in stock now. as gorgeous  A3 and A4 laser prints on 350gsm uncoated stock. In theory any of my pictures on the blog can be ordered as a print, though it may be difficult to locate a high res version of some of the older work to print from

 

 

 

Park St demolition/development site

 

 

Reel 'em in Ruby

 

 

The Queen Victoria Building and tramline construction

 

 

Postcard of the Horatii

 

 

FDC pink baize - development at Sydney University

 

 

Newcastle Post Office

 

 

Portrait of Nadine Stransen (RIP)

 

 

Marooned Shed

 

 

Woolloomooloo from Space

 

 

UV Isolation View

 

 

Helicopter pad near Brooklyn(on the old Pacific Hwy)

 

 

Govetts Leap, Blackheath

 

 

Central Station from Eddy Avenue

 

 

Dongas

 

 

Damo Shadow Boxing, At the Junkyard Studio

 

 

Sydney Harbour Bridge from Milsons Point Station

 

 

Central Park, George St, on the old Kent Brewery  site

 

 

The old Bushells tea factory, across the bay and mangroves from Cabarita

 

 

Angry Cars on a Rainy Day

 

The view from my studio porch a coupleof years ago

Hand titled and signed I sell them at $40 for A3 &  $30 for A4, so for online sales I'll add a postage and handling fee, for now $AU10, or equivalent in tradable currency within Australia for one print, and incrementing by $2.50 for each extra. For now I'll double that for most other locations, except those that are particularly obscure and expensive. This is all by hand for now, send me a message to subgeometer at gmail if you are interested. I'll organise these and other images in sets and soon I'll even set up some kind of proper shop.

I'm also about to unleash google ads on the site.