"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

Always a great opportunity to see quality artwork by selected Western Australian artists.
I have 4 pieces on display at this years exhibition.

I have just returned from a glorious weekend in Karratha in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia.  Returning with plenty of inspiration and material for next years Cossack Art Awards.
My entry this year received a Highly Commended from the judges and the experience of being there on Opening night in the historic buildings of Cossack, the earliest port in the Pilbara made it a special night.  We arrived just as the sun was setting. The artwork looked great on the stone walls of the historic buildings.  

"GLULP, where's your mother?"  Depicting a Dad emu with his very energetic chicks that he needs to look after. Click here to view previous blog showing the before and after workings of this painting

Lyal Richardson Hall, The Agonis, 2232 Albany Hwy, Gosnells

Good to see a great crowd and plenty of talent at this years awards. The variety ensures that their is something for every taste. I have an Oil, "Wheatbelt Storm" and a mixed media piece "You Ruffle My Feathers" on show.

 This is my entry for the 2018 Rockingham Art Awards. It has been entered in the Historic section as the Penguins live and breed on Penguin Island in the Rockingham area and are a very big tourist attraction in the summer months where you can wade across the sandbar at low tide to make your way to the Island where it is a sanctuary for many other migrating birds as well.
The Australian Blue Banded Bee (Amegilla-cingulata) is native to Australia lives a solitary life and has turquoise bands instead of yellow. I was lucky enough to have one visit me in my garden last year. see picture below.

The Cossack Art Awards are held north of Karratha in Roeburne in Western Australia. It is now a ghost town but still has the beautiful old stone heritage listed buildings where they have been transformed into an Art Gallery.

This paintings beginnings were as a result of a mishap while painting "Pilbara Red I & II"
The dropper lid became lodged in the cap of the acrylic ink bottle this is something I am always warning people about and the resulting spill was quickly mopped up by placing another sheet of watercolour paper over the spill.  It was then put aside to dry.
When I next had a chance to look at it I could make out the shapes of several emu chicks.
Can you spot them in the image below?