Redbar - signs

 

Half-finished temporary signage on the wall at RedBar/B.E.D. at 36 Glebe Point Road .

  Nev and Belle have moved outof the Record Crate, next door to their new venue, upstairs from BED. The Record Crate is where Grace Woods and I painted the Rock and Roll Garden of Earthly Delights on the beer garden wall, so get along and support the Red Bar so they can support local artists and musicians

 I've brought up the color since and added the byline "GIN-VINYL-LOUNGE" but it was too dark by then to take a photo. I'll probably paint in the BED artwork underneath

More temporary signs at Red Bar,

Fig on Derwent St

 

I often walk past this big small leafed fig tree when I walk to the shops and I have wanted to paint it because of its striking beard of aerial roots hanging over the street - you can;t see them yet but hopefully they won't  need to be pointed out when they're there.

Today varied from dark overcast through sun and back again, and again, then rain set in and I had to go, so I wasn't able to get as much paint on the canvas as I wanted

Tree in Victoria Park

 

I was waiting for a friend so I sat down in the park behind the bus stop in Victoria Park opposite Broadway shops. The bus behind the tree is on the beginning of City Rd

The Creation of Mick Jagger, continued

 

I made Dario's scissors sharper so he can (erm) mess with my head 

 

The drawing I'm using as a guide

 

Dario Chicco conjuring Mick Jagger from my head in his suite in Kings Cross.

There are earlier versions of this painting here

Charlotte at the Imperial

 

I went to the Imperial hotel in Erskineville with Charlotte (at left)to see the shows, including hers and do some drawing. The discriminating staff at the door let us in, Charlotte is well known there, but I could see them raise an eyebrow at me. The drawing pad or the wide nose and olive complexion, sometimes I look too Australian

While we waited for the shows to begin I drank a beer and did this warmup

 

The night started with drag mime shows, Charlotte at the centre. I would have got the other performers names, but events intervened

 

Julie Andrews and one of her attendants

 

At the interval I drew this guy at the table next to us - he said to the call it "Art of a Gay Wedding", as he'd come there from one. He held his pose for me as he sipped from his drink. Not shitfaced, but he'd clearly(at least to me) drunk considerably more than me, and was in a philosophical mood. By this stage I'd had 3 schooners of beer, as well as half a longneck shared with Charlotte before we arrived, an hour and a half ago.

I shouldn't need to spell this out, but I'm not in the habit of getting off my head before I go out drawing performances. And I'm over being excluded on some bullshit RSA pretext when really they are keeping out the rifraf.

I went to the bar to get a fourth and the guy with a wire in his ear at the bar gave me some plastic bottle of water and said maybe he'd serve me in half an hour.

WTF? 'Fraid not buddy. Not going back under current management.

I packed up my gear, made my apologies to Charlotte. kicked off the dust from my flaming red boots and departed

Through Badde Manors window

 

A drawing I did a few weeks ago when I was showing Martin my painting of his cafe in Glebe

Andrew Katelaris

 

I went with mum and visited Andrew Katelaris out near Paterson to meet him and start discussing a suitable portrait of the polemicist pot doctor treating epilepsy with cannabis. This is just a quick sketch

 

Trees behind the carpark at the nursing home where dad lived the last couple of years of his life and where mum still has a few patients

 

Tree branches in Paterson before we got there

Clivias

 

Flowers that have been reproducing in mum's garden

Next stop Woy Woy - Heads on a Train

 

Travelling to Newcastle from Central yesterday after a ruckus where 2 idiots fought over a seat and managed to fall over onto a pair of old ladies

Tom at the Mission

 

In the little courtyard outside Newtown Mission where everyone chats while they drink tea and smoke cigarettes. I'll also post this on the Newtown Last Supper blog which shows the creation of my murals there

Staircase Table

 

The staircase table finished, all varnished and with a lower shelf made of a piece of a step

 

An inlayed slot on the top where a step once sat 

 

The base with the cedar shelf attached and lacquered

 

A couple of goofy planter boxes made from leftover bits and pieces - I'll attach some loops of ancient rope as handles

 

An old cedar staircase inlaid with offcuts and sandwiched between pieces of kauri,meranti and oregon. The frame is vrious Australian hardwoods(2 red and one pinky yellow) and a couple of pieces of cypress and red cedar.

I've yet to add a little lower shelf from a piece of a cedar stair.

 

A floorboard tabletop for the Macleay St pizza shop

 

after sanding

 

grouted

 

after varnish on the top

 

A tabletop with an inlayed cedar staircase in the middle, with a pair of oregon planks and meranti and kauri strips. Older images as Made and I glued it together(and a bunch of other woodwork) are in this older post

 

Its base after some rustication with the slightly gap toothed plane. Its mostly various red and yellow hardwoods with a bit of cypress floorboard, oregon and 4x2 from a cedar door as cross pieces on the short sides. I've got a bit of leftover cedar step to use as a lower shelf

 

A finished coffee table

 

With a half finished sydney harbour bridge behind, which I'm about to get back to. I just got a big Sydney landscape commissiion so Im excited, and its finally warming up

 

Towaway shelves