Opening Night! Peter O'Doherty at King St on William

Alex, Josh and Lucy

 

Easter Sunday. Doing some colouring in after lots of chocolate

Niall and Paul at the Barbie

 

Easter bbq

 

Waiting for a train

 

Glebe Pt Rd -  some of the view from the Record Crate a couple of days ago

Mum and Dad's backyard

Garden seat and bird feeder in the backyard

At Rough Edges and the Old Fitzroy

 

At Roughies yesterday morning - with Penny, Margaret, Tor, George and Al

 

Outside the Old Fitzroy hotel in Woolloomooloo in the afternoon, with regulars including Asia and Tony. Here is a painting I did recently of @oldfitzy.

Peter Urquhart and his dad

This is the finished portrait of Peter Urquhart with his father. 

 Pete is a fantastic musician, whose love of music was shared and inspired  by his dad, who sadly died recently after a long battle with illness. 

This is getting closer to being finished, earlier versions are below

 

This is the underpainting half complete - it won't be quite so pink later, I just love what it does under blues

At the Old Fitzroy

 

I just painted the outside of the Old Fitz, my local in Woolloomooloo. This is the inside on a rainy Sunday  

Hat and sunnies

Selfie - Dope Island

finished?

Getting closer to finished

 

A mirror selfie I've been using up paint on late at night. Now it has finally cooled down a bit in Sydney up I better get cracking or it will be too cold to not wear a shirt

Street Drawings

 

Outside Buzzzbar cafe in Newtown

 

Car park gates at St Andrew's cathedral

 

Church doors in Newtown(at the bus stop)

Bicycle girl

Scanner vs camera(below)

Beginnings of a painting of a girl on a bike

At the Conservatorium gate

Looking up Macquarie street. Above - blue sky, beneath, Martian pink.

The work below was all painted on site, but yesterday I worked a bit from photos at home because of  time pressures, but I hope I can get back out on location to finish it before Art Show opens next Thursday

 

King Ed baulks at charging the city

More cockatoos, and water dragon

Due to popular demand etc etc(not a bad thing) - here are a pair of cockatoos and water dragon to add to those I painted earlier

Woolloomooloo cockatoos. Here's another in Newcastle(Warabrook)

and an earlier version of this painting and a drawing

This is the third painting of the water dragon that came and said hello at Flynn's Beach. My daughter grabbed the first, the second I sold at the Buzzbar opening, and could have resold a few times that night -  a bit of a first. There's a bit more to do to this but it shouldn't take long

At the backdoor cafe today

Piccolo Tales, season 2

 

Vashti Hughes as Abe Saffron and Vitorio as his own guardian angel and a few members of the audience in the Piccolo. Vashti in a few other guises as well

 

Act 2 - I drew lots of profiles of Vito's head

The Old Fitzroy

close to finished, I've done a little more since this photo, Only a few highlights to go if anything, so I think I'll take it down to the pub and show it off a bit later this afternoonafter Reclaim the Streets

 

The closest pub to my place

Gab

 

I'm about to start another Gabrielle painting for one of her friends to make up for the one that got nabbed on the way. I'll do a few drawings as I go through the photos

Cockatoos have a cracker

 

Cockatoos eating - A painting I started last night

I know a few people who have been domesticated by sulphur crested cockatoos, so there's plenty of opportunity to do a few more

These are in Woolloomooloo, here's another in Newcastle

A cockatoo on a mophead eating a ritz cracker. Pigeons are underneath picking up the crumbs.

Pete Urquhart and his dad

I'm going to paint a portrait of Peter Urquhart's father, much loved and sadly recently deceased. He loved music and inspired Pete to love it as well.

This shows them together, a sketch from a  facebook photo, not great as the likenesses maybe, and the hand arm hand violin thing at centre is a bit clunky, but it's a bit of an idea

Buzzbar Courtyard

In the back courtyard at Buzzzbar cafe, at 349 King St Newtown, in Sydney, where I currently have a show, Buzz, with Ben Cahill, Celia Curtis and Geoffrey Goodes

Willy at the Back Door Cafe

 

In the crowd today in Woolloomooloo waiting for some fruit and veg from Oz Harvest. An old Asian guy was holding court with some friends. One of them saw me drawing him and brought him over.

"My name is Willy - W-I-L-L-Y. You can write that with a full stop. I'm 85 years old. I'm going to die." He says this with a flourish.

Not too soon I hope. He's still got some life in him. I tell him to enjoy his time. I'll give him a copy next week