Near Paterson with Andrew and Maria Katelaris

 

Roofs with solar panels.

Why is it that whereever yo go in country areas, that vote in climate denialist Nats to parliament, many roofs are covered in solar panels, while you can go for miles in the inner west and hardly see  any solar panels  all

Rooster

 

Andrew Katelaris's rooster at his property near Paterson

 

The creekline (with a Job Network slave off to the left)

Devil

 

I've been enjoying working away at the grass textures, and I might keep doing a bit more of that and touch up the crazy pig toy a bit, but this portait of Devil is pretty much finished so I signed it.  You can see how it developed in the images below

 

Adding reflected highlights in Devil's have brought him(back) to life, if only a little bit. I still want to paint in the grass more before I let go of the painting

 

More grass

 

Devilish yet? Anyway, there's a bit more colour in this now than the version below.

A much loved pet, who died recently - a commission for a friend of Julie O'Brien

Agaves, the Job Network searcher, and View thru the Louvres - 3 drawings

 

I always like doing a drawing when I'm waiting- here's the agaves outside the flats in Surry Hills.

At the moment I'm getting used to drawing with glasses, something I put off for quite a while

 

Seeking at the job network.

I drew this tiny fragment of someone on one of MTC's computers waiting for my appointment. My case worker Sarah is moving on after a few years( a record), and I'd like to thank her for her understanding and support.

 

The park through the louvres in Badde Manors back terrace

Clivias

 

A bit more green added over the weekend while I was in Newcastle

 

In my mother's garden - there are earlier versions of this painting here

Cockatoo and geranium scribble

 

In the garden at mum's place

 

View from the train I came up on, waiting to leave central

View from Badde Manors

Fake gold frame with grapes

 

A blackboard frame at Nev and Belle's new bar RedBar, who used to be at the Record Crate, where Grace and I painted the Rock n Roll Garden of Earthly Delights last year

Visitors

 

James and Chris on the couch 

View from the Waiting Room

 

The start of City Rd from my doctor's waiting room in the old Grace Bros building

Images from ETPMARBLES the weird ones

Neo. Vakhos used in the ETPMARBLES  as prop 

This guy appeared on the iPad while I was playing around with abstract drawing and techno circles - experiments with the new technologies to find my way thru for the ETPMARBLES cinematic Walk about 

He is , for me and my girlfriend who saw it first ,the nose - spiked spirit of Elgin the 7 himself . The Thief who " saved " 1/2 the Parthenon marbles . 

He is kinda Apologising 

I heard him saying " Sorry mate , I was under the imperial influence - I wanted to taste Hellas -and So u did , matey ! Like a real pirate of the open seas/ lands 

Job Network Pole

 

At MTC

North of Svalbard - sea ice edge

 

 

An incomplete ground of a painting of the NH sea ice last northern summer. The sea ice is like a canary in the coal mine. Its warming and retreat has already had big effects on atmospheric circulation, as the ice edge directs the jetstream, which has been playing with spiralling figure 8 fugues rotating around Canada and Siberia,

There was once ice near permanently along the north coast of Svalbard( an archipelago east of far north Greenland) at around 81N. In those days the most northerly extension of the gulf stream  petered out along Svalbard's west coast, making Spitsbergen by far the most northerly ice free port, the waystation for WW2 arctic convoys to the Soviet Union

Now its is pushing into the waters north of Svalbard, last winter there was no ice along the coast or for at least 100k north, any sea ice driven south of about 82.4N soon melted. The only ice arriving or freezing there was south and east in the Barents sea.

Over summer the edge didn't move much, retreating only a little(its very close to the pole) while along the Russian and Alaskan coasts it melted for 1000km. The warm saline gulf stream water has been accumulating and pushing east.