'Watching the swans' ( Tomato Lake )
oil on canvas
$2,400
'Soccer at sundown' ( Tomato Lake )
oil on canvas
$2,400
as always - photo's don't do them justice
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Here's some early progress shots of my two entries for the upcoming City of Belmont Art Awards
both are going to be scenes of Tomato Lake, in Belmont
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I've been working hard on a big series of new paintings for my upcoming exhibition in August at EMERGE Art Space.
We're keeping the images under wraps until the show so I can't post any here, to make sure we have the correct level of amazement, awe and flurry of buying activity that will no doubt occur when we finally do reveal them on opening night!
so to keep everyone happy, here's some OTHER new stuff I've been doing ...
Making an etching press !
It still needs a steel plate to stop it from destroying itself in excitement when I tighten it too hard and the top part cracks.
might work, might not, needs a drill bit attached to the winder so it can be raised and lowered (much) quicker
Hold your breath for fun little etchings of toy ducks in the not too distant future
Cutting a gas bottle in half to make a furnace, to melt metal, to fill the moulds I make from the small wax sculptures I posted earlier
and the thing next to it is ...
Making a baby kiln from the guts of a hair dryer . This is part of the mould to pour the refractory into to house the element
again, it might not work but it'll be fun to make
and ...
Playing with my new Kiln !
( outside, ofcourse )
but mostly painting, painting painting painting
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Here's the finished piece, just need to varnish and frame
(update)
The wonderful City of Melville purchased this piece for their collection on the night of the Melville Art Awards this weekend,
I'm really happy that it's going to join another of my paintings that they purchased a couple years ago, hopefully they'll hang together !
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Some progress on my entry for this years Melville Art Awards
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Here's something else I've been slowly working on :
The small ducks are going to be bottle openers and the trout and wolf heads will be knife pommels, all cast in brass after I make the moulds
These are wax copies that came out of silicon moulds that I made from the originals
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Just finished the latest Duck painting
Oils on canvas, 90 x 80cm
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Here's a commission I recently finished , each of the two paintings is 110 x 130cm
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Another duck painting on the way
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The website has recently been updated with new paintings, which are in the 'Latest Work' section and through some of the Galleries
I've also released four new large Limited Edition Canvas prints - see the 'Prints' section for details
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