All in the Name of Liberty: July 2016

Friday, July 29, 2016

Grace Bros and the Lansdowne

At the corner of City Rd and Broadway. There are earlier versions of this painting here

Monday, July 25, 2016

I went down to my local @oldfitzy to see if anything had happened with my painting of the pub that's hanging there. I didn't get around to asking about that, but I saw [sorry, I forget yr name!] and Joe playing their first show as Blueshound

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Bodies

Ava's selfie

Pride and joy

At Rough Edges - Purple Heads

Mitch , Linda and Mama Mea at Rough Edges in Darlinghurst.

I didn't have a pencil in my bag so I resorted to a purple one from the set on the art table

There's a lot of artists who come along to Roughies. I'm hoping to take part in another Rough Art show, maybe in October. Last year we made $200 or so for the art table and a bit of cash for some of the exhibitors, and a chance to show for everyone, regardless of their capabilities

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Mervyn and Floyd

At the art table at Rough Edges in Kings Cross.

It looks like there may be another Rough Art show like the one last year to pay for a few more materials for the people who come along.

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

a seal pup

Sunday, July 17, 2016

Gabrielle Parnaby

I think I'll leave it at this point(I did a bit more to background after taking the photo, so I may replace this image at some stage - but it will be hard to see the difference in the photo, it's hard to see the changes from the version immediately below.

There are some other images in memory of Gabrielle on my portrait blog

This is just about finished now

The nose is a bit small but it's not irritating me as much as when the paint was wetter, and I remember past dramas resulting from trying to fix faces in portraits. The hair and background are still unfinished

Here's a start on a painting,

I've started another Gabrielle painting which I don't have a photo of yet. These are a couple of drawings I did to get started

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Stephen Corry at Rough Edges

Printmaker and artist Stephen Corry drawing at Rough Edges

Salmon Park playground

Noone was home so I sat in the park for a bit and drew a drawing

before heading over to the friend in hand to meet a mate

Saturday, July 9, 2016

Jonny's Averagely Legendary Birthday Bash

For the third year running I drew portraits of guests at Jon the Pom's birthday pub crawl from the Gladstone to Bar Broadway. He has a whole sketchbook full now.

This portrait of a guy whose name escapes me and whose inscription I can't decipher - it was about 3am by then and the deal involved a few(hic) free drinks - is in my book because there was no paper left, I'll hand it over to Jon when I see him.

The last 2 years I've included slightly crappy photos of the drawings taken at the time but my phone got smashed a couple ofdays ago so I didn't get any this time, hopefully I can borrow the book sometime and get proper scans of it all.

Happy 52nd Jon

Friday, July 8, 2016

Job Network foyer

A drawing from a few weeks ago before I went away

Thursday, July 7, 2016

Quick sketches: beer glasses and Lismore roofline

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Golden Commodore

Guys Golden Commodore and the enormous Jasmine leaves on fhis water tank

I didn't havre time to finish this unfortunately, hopefully next time

Toormina Woolies

Nambucca Landscape Box

A piece of street furniture I painted inthe main street of Nambucca Heads

Thanks to Tony Stokes from Nambucca for organising the gig, Warwick and Darlene from the newsagent for their support, Guy Crossley for actually getting me there, and all the people of Nambucca for their enthusiasm

I even got a lovely lecture about how I, and all the other artists, should be paid much more - and if you can please chip in to the paypal donation thingy in sidebar.

Here is the Nambucca Mermaid I painted last time I was in Nambucca