Marguerite Pete and Justo

Lorikeets

 

Lorikeets on the garden seat in mums garden in Warabrook

Fish Parrot and Kangareet

 

A canvas I started while we were painting the Garden of Earthly Delights at the Record Crate that I dug out to finish for Christmas

Trudi

 

Trudi, Grace's mum's dog.

 

The start of a portrait of a dog - can't say too much

Martin smoking and twitching

Benito di Fonzo

With his band (?: Rich Machine and ?) at the Gasoline Pony last week.

Henry

Henry got out and flew off a month or sp ago, so we all hope he's enjoying the nectar in the trees

He or she is a very handsome fellow

Here's another image of Henry

 

Beginning of a portrait of Grace's lost lorikeet Henry

Darlo Courthouse and the Art School crane

 

The Courthouse and the crane on the art school, onetime Darlinghurst gaol, a view from Taylor Square I started today

Sydney Uni construction site

 

 

Now the new year is I'm getting back in to the street landscapes, so I went back to the corner of Ross St and Parramatta Rd to continue with this picture. The crane wasn't pointing in the right direction tday

 

 

A painting I started yesterday near the Ross St entrance od Sydney University

The Vinyl Press at the Record Crate

 

The Vinyl Press

A drawing I did a few a few days ago at the Crate (which now has a new name I can't remember)  . Thanks to the band for buying the drawing, and sending me this photo

The Carpark Next Door

I've been fiddling with this today in between help to install (sigh) a dud hat water system. Try again tomorrow. I had to invent the cars a bit as noone's next door in over the summer holiday

 

A view from the Junkyard Gallery porch/studio

Footprint floor

 

I'm painting the floor of the kitchen at the Junkyard Gallery with some footprints to cover up the raw cement

Woolloomooloo Viaduct

 

I added a bit more light to the Woolloomooloo viaduct so now its pretty much finished.

There are earlier photos of this painting in this post [er - I'll have to find it later]

Agave and carpark from the Junkyard Gallery

 

A rainy day drawing of the carpark next to the Junkyard Gallery with an agave in a junkyard pot in our drive

Woolloomooloo - finishing the Weave Triptych

I've just finished and signed this large(3.2x1.5m) canvas of Woolloomooloo for Weave Community Hub at 49 McElhone St. We'll be having a launch party sometime soon

 

The whole painting

 

Freeway and railweay.

 

The Gunnery, the place I started out as an artist, back in 1985-91

 

Under the overpass, a homeless shelter against the rain

 

The almost finished painting after friday 3 November

 

Woolo's just one great big freeway

 

The Gunnery with John Bart's ceremonial rubbish sculptures

 

ibis

 

Cockatoo

 

Naval dock

Railway bowel

 

Cockatoo

 

The right panel

The whole thing after 2 November

 

I've been weaving the background of this largish painting (3.2x1.5m in total) over the past month or 2, and now adding a few trees and people and birds - and bringing back the pink, due to popular demand. It shouldn't take too long now, the hard part is done, and a deadline looms

Waratah wombat

 

I've been painting an Australiana scene of animals around the billabong at Newtown with Grace Woods, Xantharea O'Driscoll and the Mission community.

We've been asking everyone what animal and plant they want to see in the mural. Pastor Brian is leaving in December after 13 years feeding and providing services for the poor and homeless and sustaining the local community. He will be missed, hopefully his successor will have the same commitment and energy.

Brian requested a wombat and waratah, so here's a sketch in preparation for painting on tuesday. The wombat is at the entrance to his burrow which he will resolutely defend, One of my first books was Harry the Hairy Nosed Wombat.

 

The billabong scene so far . It's in the hall housing the Jordan Cafe, where free lunches and dinners are served, originally a Wesleyan school hall. At the other end of the room is the Newtown Last Supper, which I painted of the locals in 2013-4

St Mary's and the city

 

A view from the top of the navy carpark on Cowper Wharf Rd from a couple of weeks when I was drawing some other Woolloomooloo drawings for the Weave painting