Friday and Saturday night drawing

 

Graf at the old fish shop

 

ATM heads

 

Steve with a misfits poster and a stuffed crow

 

Helene

 

The hat and the chair behind Helene - 2 details from the same large drawing

 

Another detail - King St

 

Dendy car

 

More floating heads

 

Graeme

James Whitington MCA opening

In a 'pop-up department store' in the MCA. I also got commandeered by a bunch of young boys, lead by Watson, to draw their portraits. THey came out out well, so they took them away

friday night

 

 girls discussing their troubles

 

detail from a King St scene with the tap dancing girl - Camera battery is stuffed so I can't get complete images of anything larger than A3 until I replace it

Chris's kitchen - pizza night

Australian Helping Hands Association

 

 D Mickey G's Australian Helping Hands Association

 

in Lexington Place, Maroubra

 

detail of inside(space for studios and music rooms)

Michael at Nadine's

 

Hairy Buddha reaches nirvana with a few cardboard boxes

Maria and Sabrina

I'm doing a painting of Sabrina and Sabrina as a bit of a memorial to Maria, who passed away suddenly not long ago

This is a first drawing as I start thinking of a composition

 

Sabrina and Valcary(who likes to ride, and sing, with the Valkyries)

Grace 2 years ago

A drawing of Grace I -for some reason - didn't think was good enough to use on her birthday card a couple of years ago, rediscovered now as result of moving

The Waiting Game

Gos - portrait for Karen

 

Outcaste Weakly Poet - a piece of poetry... a small donation

 

Outcaste weakly poet Scott Welsh at Newsplus in Newtown plotting the Sydney run of his show at the Imperial in Newtown

Scott again at the Martin Luther King "I have a Dream" mural on King St, with some of Garth's hair, and a couple of the regular market stall operators

At Sabrina's and mine this afternoon

 

Sabrina, James and the dogs

 

After 10 minutes posing(resting as I thought), Nadine impatiently gestured and exclaimed " Are you ready, already?" - she loves that schtick . 

Ready but for your hands, forever unfinished

Rippi looking a bit like Charles Bronson

Sunday night

 

Helene, Bob and Rippi Steve

 

View down King St from outside St George bank, with Sasha's hair(next to the guy with hat, coat and glasses). Thanks for the donation, Sasha

I drew a boy in year 3, Adam, who was such an excellent sitter, focussed and still, yet with a beaming smile. He stopped his mum and insisted on having his portrait done, so he was totally into it. Adults are often so skittish, sit down without realising they are about to be looked at, that I'm about to look at them and into their eyes. They need to be calmed them with patter, and it's work to hold their attention, while avoiding all appearance of work. These quick portraits have to be fun

Adam with his sense of enjoyment, and solemn engagement, gave himself over, and got an excellent portrait as a result

Andy

 

Matt's mate Frank Pigeon

Sketchy Warmup

Nothing matches up here, scale all wacko. I was a bit out of it

But I drew 8 backpackers all staying at one hostel on a large page, including  one lying across the knees  of the others, head in his girlfriends lap, which reminded me of those paintings of Mary and John with Jesus after they've taken him off the cross. 

As ever they were pleasantly surprised to see their likenesses appear and it was an excellent paid 40 minute party, the only shame was that the stupid new licensing laws meant they couldn't get themselves a beer. (I had one of my own)

Mondo Fondue

 

Ian Hartley

 

Toby Zoates and Numbum in Nimbin

 

Rich the anthopologist

At Wannita's

 

Lizzie, Flynn, Noel and Wannita in Wannita's kitchen

We were there celebrating life becauseWannita has just got the painting that she commissioned from me, of the first ever block of public housing in NSW, in Balfour St Chippendale.

She lives there.

 

Matt fiddles at the table, watched over by stray fragments of eyes and ears, mostly Wannita's, otherwise Tariq

day 4 - The Anthony Parkin dreaming

 

 Hory, ? and James with Anthony's head above - slightly distorted, he's a hard person to pin down

Hamming and pulling faces  - mesmerising the audience

Job Network recruitment course day3

I haven't got my day 2 drawing, sold it to the teache(what a suck!)

 

 Hypnotised by Anthony's Quiff

Some of the class, including James(directly under the quiff)- I'll find out the other names

 Our recruitment consultant Anthony is such a ham. And while It's not edge of your seat entertainment, things have definitely improved since day 1, devoted to defining categories of recruiter. And he knows his stuff

David(?) and Jody and someone whose name I'll try to find out wait to watch a movie that never came. At Employment Plus(the blessed Salvos, real faves of mine) staff can't access 'social media', meaning the people supposedly finding me work can't see any of my work, even the Last Supper mural I created, ostensibly as a volunteer under their tutelage

I say ostensibly because they never got the paperwork in order, no OHS inspection was ever carried out etc etc. I guess that means I don't have to credit them;)

A very tedious seminar

Anthony hamming it up in front of the whiteboard

How many hours can it take to define the role of a recruiter? (Quite a few apparently.)What does the commonwealth - or at least the carnival of clowns in Federal government - conceive mutual obligation to mean? ...

We were asked for some feedback and some of us gave back our anecdotes of bureaucratic ineptness and nasty bloodymindedness. For flavour, here are my own - having an appointment booked for a public holiday, and being breached for not attending(haha, so funny), and then, a fortnight later, ringing from my sister's deathbed to tell them I could not get from Dubbo to Sydney for an interview I had 2 hours later that day and explaining the circumstances , and was told someone would call me to rebook. Instead I was breached again. Gabrielle died later that day. This isn't ancient history, less than two months ago.

 Thanks to Anthony, our teacher/recruitment consultant of Jonkin Consulting for bringing home to us just how hopeless the Salvation Army are at their supposed task here - finding decent work for the unemployed(rather than collect a fee to impose Rupert Murdoch's psycho-sexual pathology on the poor)

At the welcome atm and other weekend drawings

 

A whole troupe of guts in animal suits turned up on motorcycles to have an icecream at one of the motorcycle gelato shops on King St.

Although there are not a lot indications of animal suits in the drawing, sadly

My camera has gone insane, probably terminally, so here are details of 3 A2 drawings, it's too insane to try to put 4 A4 scans together to reassemble them

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girls outside blacksheep

 

bollards across the road

 

street scene with floating heads

 

Fake sun traffic lights.

 2 different people came and asked - "I can see what you're drawing, but where is the sun?"

Over the door of the tanning clinic, of course

 

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