Car Pile

Modern cars float so well. Here is the aftermath of a flash flood in an Iberian town, one of many in an extreme winter rainy season this year

 

 

Toy Death at Lazy Thinking

 

 

Punk Rock Karaoke

 Punk Rock Karaoke at the Marrickville Bowlo a bit over a week ago with Paul Hayward and the gang

International Women's day shows

Some drawings from Angela Stretch's birthday party at El Rocco on International Women's Day

 

Here she is with John Maddox (twice), with Gilda's face above(also twice)
 

 Ally singing a short song(too short for me)

This is Yihui, an artist over from China to launch her exhibition at Vermillion. After the show I drew a quick sketch of her

Charles Freyberg reading his poem Red Rattler, about the late great Candy Royale

 

Peter Whitehead

 

Below are drawings from WhaTeva Eva's fundraiser for WAGEC (the Womens and Girls Emergency Centre in Redfern)  the weekend before. 

The back of Grace and Melody(?)'s heads with the Silver Foxes (maybe)

Definitely the Silver Foxes

A couple of very loose drawings of Ally singing with a ukelele

 I'm not sure who this is, accompanied by Josh(?)

 

Begonia and drain

 In the driveway beside the house I live in, begonia's are growing out of cracks in the cement and brickwork

 

Lawine, Shark Arm and Bleedingintoradio at moshpit

An excellent show last night at Moshpit

 Shark Arm

Lawine

Bleedingintoradio
 

In Glance In Pause - Performances

 I just had an exhibition at Alpha Gallery showing some paintings and drawings mostly of performers and birdswith Özge Güzel's photographs and paintings by Ben Jaimen.

 

The view east from the deck outside the gallery

After the opening on the 12th we had 2 nights of music. On Fri13 Feb we experienced the Songs of Zelda Smythe, the beautiful vocal noise of Josh Shipton and Remi Marchand's psychedelic ambient guitar

 

Zelda

 Pieces of Josh

on  the 14th my daughter Xantharea O'Driscoll sang some beautiful classics followed by with the hairy and ethereal synthesiser noise of#NOF and WhatEva Eva declaiming and singing her punk poetry acconied by Simon and Trevor

Xantharea

 

Half of #NOF

 

Eva, Simon and Trevor 

I will link some video later and even find some photos of the exhibition

 

Spaceship Art Jam

 I went to the Spaceship in Campsie one afternoon and sat in the corner drawing the players as they improvised and learnt. 

 

Paul Hayward and the Sidekicks

 The Sidekicks played their regular sunday arvo set at the Gasoline Pony yesterday so I went along to draw them and invite people to my exhibition opening this thursday with Özge Güzel and Ben Jaimen at Alpha House gallery

 

 

White Knuckle Fever at the Golden Barley

 White Knuckle Fever did a show the weekend before last (25 January?)at the Golden Barley hotel in Newtown but I've been too slack to get it scanned and posted until now

 

 

Celia and Ross did a great show as ever

 

 

Some drunk drawing of Rubberneckerplaying the set before them. Shark Arm played first but unfortunately I didn't get there in time

The Rougettes at TAP gallery

 Last night was the opening of Martin Walsh's show at TAP gallery, and Raoul brought the Rougettes along to play

 

Fairy Wren

 When I was picking garlic at Bundagaree for a few days  in December the fairy wrens were working the area for insects. I took a few photos and now I'm trying to turn that into a painting

 

 

Willie Wagtail - a little birdie told me

 A request I'm painting for Cathie

 

 

Willie wagtail has a reputation for telling tales

 

Fig Tree (Victoria Park)

A couple of the Moreton Bay Figs near the pond in Victoria Park

 

 

 

Meshky at Moshpit

 The fabulous Meshky at Moshpit on thursday

Isaiah Riley and Thomas

 Isaiah Riley raps and sings accompanied by Thomas on guitar. This was at a fundraiser at the Red Rattler for victims of Genocide in Gaza and Sudan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hungry Birds

 I'm making a little painting for Jimmy Willing to thank him for putting on Strictly for the Birds  at the Joy Love Studio in North Lismore, as well as the Real Gone Hickups shirts he gave me. It's another painting of this whistling pigeon everyone loves along with one of its lorikeet mates, from Robert Smith's backyard in Concord

 

 

 

 

 

Icecream Bean Leaves and a Fig TreeTrunk

 A couple of sketches

 

Vanilla bean leaves from a tree at Bundagaree (or maybe North Lismore?)

 

 

Base of a (Moreton Bay) fig in Victoria Park

 

KRAMPUS at Moshpit

 Krampus is a horned, half-goat, half-demon creature from Central Europe folklore who punishes misbehaving children during the Christmas season.

 Last night he dropped in to MoshPit to check on all us, um, kids. along with WhatEva, The Garry David,and Terrificus

 

WhatEva

Terrificus

 

 Garry David (featuring Bob Blunt)