Gargoyle

 

Christopher Pyne, manager of Government Business in the Reps.

Head still a bit too fat, might trim it a bit

 

Master of Government Gargoyles, Chris Pyne for anyone who's wondering. MC for the sewer tour of Povo electorates over on the political geometry blog

Shoes

 

That's where I'll leave this (tiny) painting - it will be appearing in my upcoming show at the Waysifde Chapel

 

A fridge and pile of boards appearing behind

 

A nice old pair of shoes that don't fit me. I left them out on a paint table in the studio in case anyone who visits wants them.  Now they have to stay put for a couple of days!

Johno by the Wayside.... I;ve got a show coming up at the Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross, for a few days opening on July 4. I'll work out the details over the next few days with Diane from the Wayside

Hunter St Dongas

 

Nearly complete Hunter St Dongas. Someone who seemed pretty committed to the idea was asking today about painting a commission of a building right next door to this so I may be spending a bit more time at Castlreagh and Hunter Sts

I keep getting in later than I mean too, so I didnt get as finished as I hoped today. I might do some more from some photos (cheating...) before I go back in a couple days of and hopefully complete this.

I can't leave it too long - the other landscape I'm doing on Castlereagh is St already obscured by the frame of a new building going up

 

I rushed to get the leaves in(at least the undercolour) before I go away for a week - they may have fallen when I get back, and who knows what else will have changed

Ah, paint on most of the surface now. And a tree trunk! _Lots_ of windows in some of the things I'm working on recently

 

I started filling out the composition today

 

Today I was going to start a painting of the empty Sirius flats from the walkway on the Harbour Bridge approach. As I mixed some paint I noticed a security guard on his radio. He came and told me it is illegal to sit there. Not that I would be sitting much- you have to stand up to see the view. 

At least he was trying to be polite -" It would please me very much if you would paint on the street below.." Anyway the encounter with the riot squad that would surely follow did not appeal, especially alone("Is painting on the bridge a terror offense now?", that would go down well), so I went down into the city and started a painting at a spot i"d noticed on the way there - where yet more old buildings have been demolished while the city is cut off with maladministered public works, this time near the corner of Castlereagh and Hunter Sts.

Jack and Georgina Metallurgy

I've got paint on almost all the canvas on this now, and its finished, at least for now. It's the last piece I've been working on for my show "Streets and Viaducts: Johno by the Wayside" at The Wayside Chapel in Sydney's Kings Cross which I'm hanging tomorrow and opening on Wednesday

 

Jack tending the furnace he made from a gas bottle before he and Georgina poured an aluminium casting and then a bronze one in the workshop at the Junkyard Gallery

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I;ve got plenty more to do yet

Aqueduct

A monument to public health (and hence civilisation - We came, we saw, we built a cloaca)

 

I learnt a bit more about the aqueduct as I painted in some green to leaves on the fig.

A guy came past looking the worse for wear from last night trying to open conversation with the Glebe and Annandale dogwalkers. He stopped for a minute and told me that when he was a child they was a handrail(and some sort of gangway I guess) on top so you could walk along above a sewer and a water pipe

 

This must be coming together, more and more people are stopping to say hello as they jog along or walk their dogs

 

Actually this used to carry the sewerage according to a woman I was talking to today - near the end of Wigram Rd between Glebe and Annandale.

There are some earlier versions of this picture in this earlier post