I must like Ducks and I'm not the only one as 2 pieces sold on Sunday.

Actually they are birds so it is not that surprising but it turns out I had 3 paintings of Ducks in my Bird Gallery and 2 Photos.

The painting titled "Ducklings" found a new home as well as the photo titled "Mother Duck" along with other paintings and prints.
 
Photos may be ordered by contacting me below.

Look forward to seeing you this Sunday if you haven't had the chance to visit already to enjoy the "New York Gallery", "Bird Gallery" and "Country Gallery" paintings.

New York in Black and White. Paintings, Lino Prints and Photographic Prints feature in this years collection. Central Park, New York Buskers and the Skyline of water tanks and standpipes are the subject matter.
Week 1
My New York Busking Musicians turned out to be popular. The one "it would only happen in New York" is my Busker playing his Grand Piano! You just don't see that every day. The piano was rolled down into the park from somewhere? and then a full classical recital began. If you don't believe me come and see the actual photo.
The prints are my manipulated photos converted to black and white rendered in a sketch format with plenty of white space surrounding the artists at work. Could have stayed and watched them perform all day.
 There was as much diversity with my visitors as there was with my art. Surprise old acquaintances to visitors from as far away as Busselton , Corrigin and Rockingham. Then those that followed "the signs" to find themselves in my world of art and the stories that they hold. 
Thank you to all my lovely family , friends and visitors for making it such a great day.

Very pleased to receive a Highly Commended for "You Ruffle My Feathers"  in the York Art Society Awards 2018. 

It will be on show at my Open Studio and Garden each Sunday in November 2018.

Once again there is "Devil in the detail" so come and see if you can find the other creatures within the painting that form part of the story.

For the story and a slideshow of how it was created click the link.

The working drawings that define the shapes found within the background layer

"Vintage 1968"  compliments other works as "Let's Celebrate" and "Line them up" Series to celebrate special occasions.

Below shows the working drawings and the progressive painting

Check out the design process from conception by viewing earlier post by clicking here

Weather permitting my 4 designs for the second series of Mandurah Bridge Banners will be erected on Monday 17 September.

All very exciting, after submitting my design application in March this year the wait is nearly over to  see them hung on the new Mandurah traffic bridge.

Four of my designs were selected for the second series of banners to adorn the new Mandurah Traffic Bridge in Western Australia.The new traffic bridge has 14 Banners across its width. The Inaugural series was by Emma Blyth using images from her paintings for the Mandurah Crabfest over the past 20 years.

It was an exciting challenge to make the designs fit into the long thin design of the Banners. 


The finished paintings were applied onto a marine ply base 1:5 ratio of the 7metre high banners that are only 500mm at their widest point. They were then photographed and sent off to be printed onto the PVC Banners.


Below shows the process of the banners from concept to completion or almost.....

The concepts chosen from my submission were 
1. Octopus
2. Local fish
3. Stingray
4. Spoonbill