Kitchen Garden

A painting I started when I was at mum's over the weekend. I'll do some more to it in a couple of weeks when I'm there next

 Here's some stopframe animation of me painting. It was shot at one frame per 5 seconds and compresses an hour and a half into 43 seconds. It's hilarious to watch, at least for me. I'll be doing some more of this stuff

 

I've created an instagram account where I'm going to post images of my finished artwork, in contrast to this blog, which attempts to give a blow by blow account of work in progress, good, bad and ugly. So you'll always see it here first!

I'll start with a breach of policy though!, making this animation the first entry before trawling back through the blog for a few hundred finished pieces and images from last few years

 

 

 

Junkyard Gym

Caspian has set up a gym In the space we've cleared among  the timber piles out back and he and his mates are using it to work out. Damo is the character shadow boxing in the foreground. Damon is a stone mason who lived here a year or so ago

 Nearly finished and heavy rain has set in for the next few days so I've unstrapped this largish canvas(1200x1200mm) from the easel it was on so it could come nside to the big monitor to fix a few things that have been cleared away in the actual scene while I get started on a few new thngs - maybe some frames and possibly other woodwork. I've also got a heap of UV lamps to repair and/or finish.

There are a heap of photos showing the stages as this painting came together

  

I went back into the background purpl shadow, and maybe put it in a bit too much o the background

 

 

I've just returnd to this after a couple of weeks, starting with adding adding some flesh to Damo before completing the bricks and foliage and wood

 

 

I went over the mortar(again!) and put a bit more brighter colour on, especially greens

 

 

 

Damon poses with the painting

Everything keeps moving aroung as I paint, but now I've got a ground on the canvas I'm going to add some more colour, green

stopframed

 

 

 

Damo the stonemason shadow boxing

Damon roughed in to the composition. I did a mockup on the PC or a photo against the painting so far to check out just where I wanted to place the figure and make my life easier matting him in

 

 so many bricks...

I've always wanted to paint at least some of the timber racks here, now I am

 

 

 

 

 

The cat likes to watch, he's a bit of a critic

Hop vine / Carpark next door

I've been growing a hopvine on the new fence the neighbours at FDC built. It screens my studio and the communal space on and around the patio, and I can use it to flavour the beer I make. (It's a Saaz, pretty versatile, and the traditional hop for pilseners)

I started it a few weeks ago when a lockdown looked imminent. It didn't happen then, butthe conditions for another could easily arise in a matter of hours or days for another 6 months or so, so I'm ging to start a few studio paintings, and views from home while also getting back to my set of Sydney landscapes.

 

 

This is it so far under UV light, there's a few daylight pctures below

Kenzie