Xanthe at Newtown Station

 

Xantharea singing and playing guitar on Newtown station forecourt

 

The bare bones of a landscape late in the arvo in Newtown. On the left is the prime stage for buskers on the forecourt outside Newtown, and the whole scene is full of people -silhouetted figures -  charging on and off stage (Exeunt!) at that time of day

Sonya and Neville (aka the Bloke)

 

Nev out on the back verandah at RedBar on Glebe Pt Rd, talking to Sonya and me and some Russian muscle queens. The conversation turned to nicknames and stage and streetnames. He says "I'm not Commander PingPing, I'm just a bloke"

 

Sabrina sitting on the same couch the day before

Psychedelic night, from beside the bar

 

The first band from the psychedelic night at RedBar last week, and some of the punters by the bar.

 

Tree

 

A tree behing my otheres backyard that I've already painted once or twice before

Archibald Painting Delivery - the Movie

 Taking the Trial of Dr Pot (more pictures etc here))in to the Art Gallery of NSW. Entry 596 in the Archibald. It's my portrait of Dr Andrew Katelaris successfully creating a defence of Medical Necessity to Treat to defeat weed distribution charges in NSW district court. Thanks to Lyle for following us in to the bowels of the packing room and shooting the video. And to Lex for driving us in his van, and Andy Perceval for organising it all, he introduced me to Andrew

I've always enjoyed the circus around delivering entries to these prizes - we lived nearby when I was at the Gunnery so we used to parade up there with various outrageous spoofs. This year, the first time I've entered for about 15 years (since I put in a portrait of Nadine Stransen as a lawgiver in a modular chair, now sadly lost, destroyed when the Housing Department cleared her flat)

To my huge surprise we ran into my old friend Chas Glover, helping with receiving the paintings. He lives up in Lismore these days. we did a show together a couple of years ago at Newsagency Gallery, with Jimmy Willing and Ben Cahill. I'll try to dig up a link, there's a post down below on this blog somewhere. On the video you can see him carry the painting off to wherever the judging occurs

 

The Trial of Dr Pot

-where-

Creating the First Ever Necessity Defence for Medical Cannabis, Dr Andrew Katelaris Addresses the District Court Jury, Defeating Cannabis Supply Charges, With the Scene Transposed to Paterson NSW

The painting itself, and the full title, with Lots of CAPITALS. It's really long but we felt we had to spell the story out

Sydney Harbour Bridge from Milson's Pt Station

 

This is a painting I've had sitting around around almost ready(some earlier images are here)  for a few months since the summer got too hot to work in full sun. Now autumn is here I was able to finish or near finish it today

Night Carpark

 

Under 3 lights 

This oneis under a mix of UV and day, and room lights

Under UV

 

Daylight

Finished. It's interesting to paint a scene whose details are a bit obscure, it adds an air of mystery. I used green and orange UV pigments along with regular oil colours to heighten the lights, and so the mood changes a bit with different lighting.

 

The UV paints are fun to play with, mix fine with other oils without losing flourescence. Tho you can't use polyurethane as a medium(like in my outdoor murals), it's opaque to blacklight. I'll take a few photos in UV light soon with various fill lights to show the variations

 

I'm putting some work in and getting involved in the Museum of Fleas, 5 nights of music and cabaret at theImperial in Erskineville, tocoincide with the Sydney Fringe festival.

To that end I got some  fluorescing pigments(orange and green so far) and ground some in hemp seed oil to muck around with in combination with other colours. The shot is in daylight but I've got a blacklight LED strip and will also set up some coloured lights in the studio as well, like doing a theatre backdrop!

Fun

 

The junkpile in the forefroundf keeps getting rearranged

 

I've done a few daytime views of FDC's carpark in front of my studio. Last night I started a night view

Shelves and tabletops

 

A light cafe style tabletop in the making, just before I fill the gaps . One pine floorboard as well as pink and red hardwoods

 

One side of a (heavy) doublesided floorboard tabletop, kitchen table sized. This side from pine and soft red hardwood floorboards

 

2 sides of a tabletop with big sander and mask etc

Floorboard table assembled and sanded a bit. I'm waiting for some 40mm screws to arrive in the post over the next day or 2 to make it rigid enough to fill and finish sanding. The visible side is some pink hardwood floorboards that finish really beautifully, the other is alternating stripes of kauri or a similar pine and a deep red soft hardwood.

 

The pieces for a side of a double sided floorboard tabletop I'm making from a few of the floorboards here

 

A set of shelves for the kitchen, which were going to be funny half sloping display unit, any way a long story

 

a wrong prototype - most of shelf should be flat, with the front at an angle

 

Initial mockup of a shelf and posts for a convenience store in the Cross

Painting delivery

 

Charge!

Delivering the Trial of Dr Pot to the Art Gallery of NSW. We had to take advantage ofthe moment to take a few photos and shoot some movies out front before taking the painting down to the tradesman's entrance. Lyle shot a cool clip of us taking the painting in which I'll post as soon as I compress it a bit