Reel'em In Ruby

A racehorse commission, to add to the animal and pet portraits

 

This graceful 4 year old mare has won a heap of prizemoney. The images I'm using are from a big win at Rosehill, so I'm trying to include some of the gardens out there rather than the corporate hoardings - which are very Brasil

The finished painting with the steward's lookout behind. The scene is a mashup so you won't exactly be able to find it out there, but I hope it gives a good feeling of the place. Joe's happy with the portrait of Ruby

With the green added its very naturalistic - Stubbs meets Muybridge? (LOL).

Below are a sequence of images as it all comes together

A sequence of images as the colour builds up \

Blogger's image uploader has taken to adding a bunch of images in reverse order since the recent 'interface upgrade' (teeth grind) so I'm having to cut and paste everything individually today. This shot has a strong blue cast I should fix sometime

 

Sketched up in raw sienna(not pencil!) with some zinc white and raw umber with a bit of purple(dioxazine) - some contrasting shadow and depth under the greens etc of tur. Complementary colours create depth and contrast

 

A first sketch from the main photo I'll be using as a guide. A  bit fucked up - proportion around the shoulders totally FOOBAR - but otherwise pleasing so its not really a problem if I don't repeat the mistake sketching up the canvas, which I'm ready to do - the best drawing has to be on the canvas, not a piece of paper

Making Climate Great Again

When #MakingAmericaDiseased gets boring Donny hops on his broomstick

The back of Morrison's head

 

Put another native animal on the bonfire(repeat)

The Spark - exhibition and opening

Some photos below of the opening and the day after - I'll get through and caption them soon, about the same time as I add a kind of catalogue

 

Julian Assange and a dog flea

 

Trump biohazard - the entranceway

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2020 the Spark

Announcing an upcoming show at my studio - some of the UV paintings I was going to show at Chrissie Cotter gallery in May ( and I've now been given a slot there in september)

There will be an opening on friday 17 July (friday week) and the show can be seen by appointment for a week or so after that, at the Junkyard studio, 1 Kimber Lane, Forest Lodge in Sydney. The facebook event is here Thanks to Andy, Lyle, Rachel, Tony, Caspian, Grace and Damo and everyone else for their help and supprt

 

Light shining from a few of the lamps I've been making with 30 cent UV diodes and juice bottles - the lithium batteries (18650s) cost a bit tho

illuminating these paintings

 

a half-finished lamp with a USB charge/discharge circuit made from an orange juice bottle mounted on a piece of cedar

 

lamp table

 

eyes on stalks?

395nm LEDs mounted on brass nails, and the number '3' from an old housenumber. With wire soldered on they look like a crude version of ancient 'barbarian'/Germanic jewellery, so I'm waiting on a bit of silver jewellery wire to see what it looks like on some of these. It should be an excellent conductor

 

a shiny wok reflector