Tork playing guitar

 

Went over and saw my old friend and former housemate Torquemada and drew him playing guitar

Paul

 

Listening to the cricket with the mozzie repellent at hand. The garden's reflection moved insid. There's a slightly different version of this painting here and here 

Christmas at Mums

 

Conversation befote dinner - bits and pieces of Niall, Lucy, Henry, Josh,Alex, Lila, Helen and Bree

A path in the garden

 

A stray drawing of Illawarra Rd Marrickville from a few weeks ago

Night Visions

Ben Cahill and I are having a show at Chrissie Cotter gallery next May

Some Shelves for Sabrina

 

a bathroom shelf - I originally put this together for Neville at the Record Crate as a little bar extension but he left as I was about to install it

 

bedroom shelves

 

for some plants by the window once the timber is sealed

 

Some shelving I've been installing at Sabrina's place

Sister Ursuline

This is one of the paintings I started live during the Museum of Fleas, this one from beside the stage. I also shot video of all the performances head on from the back of the room, as well as luckily a couple of minutes of Emma soundchecking from this viewing position. 

I grabbed some stills out of it and now I'm going to work up the unfinished paintings as I get a final edit together of the video of the next few weeks, with lots of added flea paintings. I had to get a computer capable of the work, I'll also  post some clips as I go

 

Almost finished except for the bow and Emma's thumb. I still have the final video edit to get into, but I should be able to find a bit of time for that later in the month.

This photo is under mixed UV and regular lighting,

 

The same version under daylight.

 

under blacklight

 

A few retouches

 

Sister Ursuline under a UV light

 

Paint everywhere now, and kind of texture, but the colours are still a fair way from where they'll end up. And the painting is a mix of normal and fluoro colours, while the photo was taken under daylight, it looksa bit different under UV. I'll take a shot soon

 

Poets at 1880 hall

 

A couple of drawings of Charles Freyberg reading at the performance yesterday in the hall next to the Catholic Church on Devonshire St Surry Hills

 

Tug Dumbly and Pete Urquhart, as well as a little bit of Ariel in a sketchy rendition

Drawings

 

Charles Freyberg and Alison Marshal performing at the Museum of Fleas

 

Some mad vent pipes above the doctor's waiting room

Fleas of Past Present and Future - by Grace Woods, and a Flea Mask

 

The flea drawings Grace hung in the Imperial Hotel for the Museum of Fleas. Along with the other art they will be going into the video of the show

 

A papier mache mask with some fluoro latex over it

 

Freeing a flea from the rock! Plaster of Paris

Waiting for the Postman

 

I was waiting by the gate at the top of the lane for a new computer(I'm working on it now).

Its a good spot to sit before the sun comes out from behind the tree so I started a painting of the entrance to the old carriageway under the terraces across the road

Clivias

 

A painting I started about a year ago. Its in Mum's garden and the painting is at her place. She wants to frame and hang it but I thought the paint was just a bit too thin and intermittent , and I had paint left over after playing around with this other garden pieceand the portrait of Paul below

Paul

On the back porch at Mum's in Newcastle. There's some older versions here from when I started it back in March or so

Flea Mask

 

Appalling Paul modelling the flea mask I didn't get ready in time for the Museum of Fleas cabaret last month. So instead I'm making another so I can wear a flea outfit at a demo, and so can someone else.

Thanks to Veronica for the photo

Fleas on glass

 

The Museum of Fleas has been over for a while, but I'm still finishing off a few of the paintings and masks I made for it as well as editing a video of the show for the cast and to show around a bit maybe. I've just got a new computer which will make it a bit more practical to view and render it out, as well as speeding up working with the Gimp and putting images of my paintings and stuff up here.

I've been a bit slack recently with posting. I'll have a bit more time to do so. And once the video is finished I'll put it up too

 

One more of the flea paintings I prepared for the Museum of Fleas - this one didn't make it to the show, mostly because it was on glass and so a bit too heavy to hang on sticker hooks. 

I've got a video of the show, which looks and sounds great. I've done a basic edit and once I put some images of the paintings into it I'll put in up online and post a link here

Museum of Fleas paintings

 

Some paintings I worked on over the 5 day run of the Museum of Fleas in UV pigments and a couple of dark tones

This first one is the only finished piece, showing Sister Ursukine, Peter Urquhart -Urq-, and Vashti Hughes as Mistress of the Fleas. with Luke behind on the sound desk Roger Foley-Fogg can be seen glowing in the audience

It was an amazing show to be part of, I'm currently putting a rough edit of the show together on video which I'll post on youtube once I put some basic titles and credits on it and link to in in a post here, as well as some stop frame movies of Arctic Sea Ice from the wonderful NASA Worldview. I'll put links to the gronky python code I used to download stuff and edit and compress video

(A graphic editor would totally die on my shitty laptop when confronted with when confronted with 4hrs of raw 1080p video, I have to turn everything off to play it in a player!)

 

Charles Freyberg Pete and Alison Marshall

 

Charles, Pete and Marguerite Montes

 

Sister Ursuline playing cello