Leaping lizards! Climbing the west side of Mount Ohlssen Bagge is a punishing shadeless scramble, but the rewards are some unique environments that the parks guide describes as “excellent reptile habitat”. Excellent for reptiles; less so for this mammal. Thankfully all the many reptiles we encountered on this climb were lizards and there was no need to … More Excellent reptile habitat
This painting is a bit of an experiment to see if I can combine colour in a meaningful way with the new urban drawings I’m making. I made a drawing on MDF using sharpies (as I’ve been doing for a while now) and then used the drawing as the basis for a painting. Thin washes … More Looking East from Camp Street (Winter)
Another digital work. This one based on a painting I made a few years ago. Painstakingly fussed with in Adobe Illustrator. I’m pretty happy with how this went although transferring digital images onto real-world media (called “paper” in this case) still leaves me cold. When I have time I want to explore working over the … More After Burning Off (Morning Light)
Two views of Ballarat. One looking into town from the Armstrong St North rail bridge, the other of the old cemetery. I put them together as I feel the shapes in both views seem to speak to each other, and there is a tacit commentary from the view below on the view I see as … More Double Ballarat Landscape 1
The unsung and unseen bearer of so many Monet prints. The supporter of bourgeois purchases across much of the world. How would I be able to impose my personality on an interior space and impress my dinner guests without the picture hook? It deserves a medal, but a grand Soviet-era monumental portrait will have to do. РОДЙНА-МАТЬ ЗОВЕТ! I … More Middle Class Hero 2
In 2011 the Law Society of British Columbia brought a discipline hearing against an unnamed lawyer for referring to another lawyer’s client as living with an odalisque. The Law Society found the use of the word, though an extremely poor choice, did not rise to the level of professional misconduct. (Wikipedia) This is a drawing … More Odalisque