Public Servant under pressure

 Having been sent to Senate Estimates by the government to defend the indefensible

Mr Cat and other sketches

 

 

Mr Cat, on his favourite heater(stereo amp). I'm getting ready to paint his ortrait as a commission for Andi

 

 

A couple of quick sketches of Vic Park and its pond as I drew as I was getting started on the Parlement of Birds I'm doing

 

Veronik

 

The first portrait sketch I've done in ages

 

Parliament of Birdies

 The duck pond in Vic Park by the entrance to Sydney University makes an ideal auditorium for birds like seagulls, spoonbills, emus  cockatoos and ibises to give their COVID briefings and otherwise discuss what must be done

 

 

 

The spoonbill gets a few words in, edgeways... 

 

 

The whole painting, all 3 panels, at the moment, I'll caption the others some other time

swoop

 

 

A composite image of the three panels as they were a few days ago.

 

I'm still adding birds and starting to finish others as well as more plants and perches for a vocal spoonbill with the sideshow bob crest.

As well as spoonbills, so far the are seagulls, emus, brush turkeys, a wedgetail and a sea eagle, some lurid blue fairy penguins(they caught the ferry and then a bus from Manly), cockatoos, currawongs, magpies and noisy miners, ibises(including the speaker), pacific black ducks, crested grebes (they seem to be on a date), swans, and a couple of moorhens. And a pair of tiny red birds from western Sydney whose name I can't remember.

Bower Birds are at work creating gates for the divisions

 

 

 

The Speaker

 

 

part of the emu delegation

 

 

Some argy bargy over a disagreement

 

The latest composite of all the panels.

 Below are a few photos from the last week or so, but not in order

 

 

 

A composite of the 3 panels next to each other  

Below are some of the birds I've added, and some foliage

 

 

A cocky dives in. I'm shooting and collecting bird photos 

 

 

Islands in the lake. The photos aren't in order. I'm using 2 cameras

 

 

more birds in flight

 

 

With naturalistic blue in the sky, but the rest getting more and more pink and purple