Poetry cabaret at el Rocco

 

Peter Urquhart on piano 

Here are some fragmentary drawings of the Sydney Poet's Co-operative night - Making things even more fragmentary, the A2 drawings I can only scan A4 chunks, so there are some bits missing

 

Charles

 

Applying makeup - whiteface with red and black lipstick - Alison, Charles and (who did the makeup?) etc

 

Peter Hayes, Pete Urquhart and Charles' reading Charles' poetry

Peter Hayes and Charles again

 

Pete and Darius

 

 

Peter Urquhart on vibes doing the intro

Niall and Gab

Older versions of this painting are here

Details below

Market St

Danny Peace Smile

Danny distributing peace and smiles on King St lastnight

"Don't get horny

jest smile!"

You can find Danny's page here

Floyd, Michael and Grace

At Rough Edges this morning

Made and Lauren. and at Roughies

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Lauren at the Hub

with Made(in beanie), and an Italian guy fundraising an NGO (Unicef?). Made and Lauren are gathering signatures for a petition supporting Aurukun landowners against Qld government

Tamara and Herbert at Rough Edges

 

Wayne

 

Tamara and Herbert again

Gelato bar

 

3 sections of an A2 drawing(assembling 4 scans is too much work and my current scanner has a high lip on one side - !@#$?). 

 

View from Glebe Point Road

Finished - older versions of the painting are here

Herbert and Tamara

At Rough Edges

APOCALYPSE

Well , we live in this era where all the fanatics of the 3 basic more stupid apocalyptic religions " of the book" as proudly called , consider as the end of the world . 

Only because of ignorance and not a hint of the basic human curiosity but lots oif devotion to patriarchal autocratic systems that suck their life force for millennia . 

It wouldn't bother us if it wasn't for the manifestation of the dreamworld 

Cognition is The tool of creation 

But faith , dreaming and determination  are also creating . Brains wired in particular beliefs create the Noosphere they like and manifest a world similar to their beliefs 

This is where my problem with belief systems like religions , is focused 

The mental power of human is huge as we understand and finally can prove by Quantum mechs or E M readings and other . 

It is something with the human consciousness that is powerful

It creates the world 

Maybe not just the human but all creatures create their life / world / environment ecc all in co-relation

Everything exist in relativity with everything and everything influences the morfogenesis of everything 

So, when a whole lot of determined habitual religion freaks , wish for a great confrontation that will eclipse this world , because they can't stand the Now as is , maybe , i say maybe they could reach critical mass and actually manifest  it 

Manifest the hell that are infatuated with .!

Made up gods of mine

Everybody make gods Why not me 

So I make a few here there and delete them when I feel like 

Interfering god !

Extra-terrestrial

Terrestrial

Erin and Garth

Erin and Garth on the street with me portrait drawing after Garth's barbeque. I'd forgotten about this drawing

Street violin player

 

This violin player and all the rest are segments of a largish (A2) drawing I did outside the cinema multiplex on George St Sydney. I'll add a crappy photo of the whole drawing in the daylight

 

My camera is semi-stuffed, so I might wait to stick up an image of the complete drawing - making up a composite of these I leave as an exercise for the reader

Drawing Interuptus - these Arab guys(Saudi maybe) came and had me draw a girlfriend and a mate from their phones

Garth

On the phone at the barbeque in Enmore Park yesterday

Street Drawing

 

Girl meets boy. A sketch for possible figures in the town hall painting  that I drew while painting there yesterday- I'm not sure they'll fit now

Last night in Newtown : Disco Chem detail - 

my camera is stuffed - I've been using an android phone, which already had its limitations, but I appear to have dinged or damaged the coating on the lens cover

 

About half the image is unusable, as can be seen in this complete view

 

The other half of drawing looking sharper.

A quick sketch also from last night in Newtown, scanned not photographed - the image quality is much better!

People at Rough Edges

Grace with Tamara and Herbert and some others whose names I don't know with Herbert's evil death metal Jokowi painting. He has a matching Tony Abbott

NBH DA11

 

My good friend NBH DA11, a fixture in Nambucca Heads. Thanks to Tony of Nambucca and Guy Crossley for giving me the gig, and to Grace Woods who came up with the initial idea, and made suggestions(buttons, bow-tie). She was going to paint the bow tie but had to leave for sydney the day before I did the top coat

 

In front of Guy Crossley's mirror and tile eyeball, which I helped him design and make at the Bellingen Global festival a couple of years ago.

Across the road, behind the photographer, is Guy's famous ceramic relief mural on Nambucca Heads cop shop

Apparently the locals had already given him a nickname while the painting was unfinished, but the lady who told me couldn't remember

 Half finished version, with Rico grandstanding

At Centrelink and Rough Edges

Martin Place

A painting I began a few days ago in Martin Place in the section between George and Pitt streets. I'll work on it there and at home over the next few weeks. If you see me there and have spare change, I'll have a tin you can put it in. Any contribution is much appreciated.

Update:

I went today(thurs 17th sept) to continue working on this painting when I was challenged for a busking license by the sompliance officer responsible  for Sektor 1, or whatever he termed it . I offered to take away any signs or coin collector so I could get something done on the painting, but that wouldn't do, 'especially so close to the war memorial' - which I was many metres from, and behind a lamppost so I wasn'tblocking anyone.

Is this for real? No painting in Martin place without a license. Does this extend to pencil on paper, pastels?