Holiday drawings

 

Albert the dog teaches remedial geometry - defining a cotangent

 

Sulphur-crested cockatoos at feeding time, with a pigeon waiting for windfalls

 

 

 Twins Lucy and Josh drawn fro a photo

Josh

Christmas Scrabble 2015

Bad Santa's Christmas Cabaret

 

Zia surrounded by fragmentary drawings of Pete Urquhart and Alison Marshall

 

Bad Santa(Peter Hayes) reads with Charles Freyberg and a slightly disreputable elf played by ?(sorry, I've forgotten his name, can someone please remind me and I'll update the post

Peter Urquhart playing at the sound check/warmup

 

Dirk Kruithof from a drawing Peter Hayes bought on the night(thankyou)

At a bar

Vasco's party at the bar under Broadway shops, but he scarpered and this is mostly Vince and Lucas

From the Hub, continued

Still a bit empty in foreground, but not nearly as desolate as it was

Here is a drawing I did as a an attempt to collect a few figures at the scale of painting, a few more might easily follow

St Geotges Hall in Newtown

opposite my exhibition 'In The City" at Buzzzbar cafe at 349 King St, Newtown, in Sydney. This not quite complete, I mean to finish it tomorrow

 

here it is

Last Roughies breakfast before Christmas and New Year

Clients and volunteers including artists from the Rough Art show in July

Marg and Ye Naing and Grace's back as she weaves Christmas cards, as well as Tina Cheong and Terry etc among the smaller figures and heads

Simone's painting

 

Simone this is the painting I have of yours, Facebook's uploader was giving me a headache, maybe the prudish AI blew a gasket

Alice Street Reclaim The Streets

Street drawing

From the hub - I'm finding a few figures for the landscape I'm painting from the same spot

 

Outside St George Bank

Evolution , Devolution or Stagnation

Continue 

Evolution , Devolution or Stagnation

Your guess as good as mine .

Has B . Obama done anything for Equality in the Racial front ?

Has he done any good work for natives and blacks in USA and abroad ?

Has his presidency managed to turn 

The Tide , towards a more inclusive society in USA and abroad 

Has he left anything for the masses to account for a Democratic gov 

Well , Yes u might say 

The health policy , the famous "Obama care " , but again is a drop in the ocean and an underhanded gift to the private  corporate health industry .

If a politician is to be measured by something , 

This should be his actions and their results in Real politix Whome and what ideas did they Gabor 

Who gains , who loses  as a result of implementing policy .

Who gained and who lost from Obama's presidency .-

Meta - target ing

Newtown Last Night

 

Most of a drawing I did last night - it's from an A2 drawing - a pain to scan properly on an A4 machine, so there's a few bits missing - this is from 3 scans and you need four at least for the whole page-  and I also didn't pay too much attention to exact alignment - fiddly small rotations are required and there's no paper edge to use as reference - 2 of the actual scans are below

 

Dendy SGK!

 

Girls out at night

Paige who sat down to get some of her woes out of her system with the drawing I did as she wrote me some poetry

 

The poem

Nadine's Crew

Nadine surrounded by her friends.

Chicka and guy with beard's name I can't remember, I'll update this when I find out

View from the Hub in Newtown

 

Still looks really empty

I started this new painting which will go in the In The City show if it's done enough in time.

Lucas's 50th party

In Victoria Park for Lucas' 50th with Grace, Jon the Pom, Matty, Stella and of course multiple Lucases and a bunch of others someone can remind me the names of. All a bit sketchy. Happy Birthday Lucas

Quotes of the day - Can you take your eyeballs off so I can look at your eyes

-Kumbaya right up ya

Can put that thing between my legs

Neville's court

Around the round table in the back yard at the Record Crate in Glebe (@crateglebe)  - it's round in the sense that a rectangle approximates an oval. 

That's the back of Neville's head, with Iris to his right and the others names I don't remember

I painted an outer space ceiling with quasars for Neville in the bar a while ago. He's got an idea to paint the 27 club as the last supper with a 2 headed Buckley Jesus, father and son, on a wall out the back, once some construction work is done. I'm not sure how many last suppers I want to put my name to - what about a Round Table group with Janis Joplin as King Arthur?

Window view

A view out my window

Cabaret - Poetry and Music Jamathon at TAP

Charles in triplicate - my warmup

I went to a great cabaret jamathon last night at TAP gallery, with poets and musicians including Charles Freyberg reading some of his own poetry, Peter Hayes reading from Shakespeare's, James Whitington's and his own work, Peter Urquhart playing keyboard, violin ang singing a moving rendition of Janis Joplin's Stardust, Sheo on clarinet, Benito di Fonzo singing, reading and playing guitar and more whose names are a bit fuzzy right now.

If you know any of the missing names please let me know either as a comment here or message me on facebook

Charles opening proceedings, as well as Peter Urquhart on keyboard, and also Peter Hayes and Paul and Marguerite Montes

Benito di Fonzo playing guitar and singing a few songs, as well as Peter Hayes, Sheo, and Pete Urquhart

 

Peter Urquhart and Sheo

 

We Are Stardust - Pete Urquhart singing accompanied by Marguerite Montes, as well as ? reading

 

2 poets

Charles Freyberg by Grace Woods, who borrowed my pad for a moment

Marguerite Montes singing the story of a boat person in a happier era, and a bit of Pete's face

Harry Seidler Cake - another Martin Place landscape

a bit c;oser

a painting I started this afternoon

Paintings: work in progress

 

Peter Urquhart playing piano at his music and poetry cabaret.

Various versions of this painting are here.

 These are a few of the artworks I will be showing at Buzzzbar cafe, opening at 6pm on Wednesday 25 November. Buzzzbar is at 349 King St.

Have a look at the "In the City" exhibition blog for updates and eventually the catalogue

 

Martin Place

 

Lips Sewn Shut - Peter Dutton

Versions are here(next post down), the finished painting will also appear on the political geometry blog

Lips sewn shut and Window View

To do - the sutures

 

Dutton, lips sewn shut - I'll post this  on my cartoon blog when it's done and also exhibit it at In The City

The facebook event for the opening is here