Skull Tattoo and Catedral in Black and Red

Yeah, OK, I know, usual story, can't be bothered with scanner, so photos look a bit crap and are often the wrong way around. I will scan these properly soon. I sold another painting today, the tiger from yesterday. Pretty impressed - not bad...

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Tiger Tattoo & Desert Goddess

This is the sickest! I did this today while I was 'sitting at the gallery'. Yes, that's a posh, art-wanky term for waiting around for people to come in and buy stuff. I'm quite stoked with this little number as I've been harbouring a secret desire to become a tattoo artist, and think this worked out quite well. Might start getting into this style more from now on...

Desert Goddess ~ bit of an experiment, playing around with liquid latex and watercolours. Can't be bothered fighting with Mum's scanner atm, so posting photos for now.


Pretty stoked with myself ~ First exhibition and just sold two paintings!

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Exhibition tonight

So I've been invited to join an exhibition and it's all happening in about an hour. Pretty exciting. I have no idea what prices to put in everything and think I may have under-quoted! An auction would be better, to find out what they're really worth... Anyway, it's at Old Hartley Street School Museum, across the road from Yepperenye Shopping Mall in Alice Springs, tonight 4-6pm. Come along if you can make, I'd be stoked to see you and say "G'day"!

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Macdonnell Ranges

This is more or less the view from outside of town, like when you're driving in from the airport. On the other side of those hills is the township, after that it's pretty much this again for as far as the eye can see. I'll go up Mount Gillan and do a sketch from there at sunset soon. Lovely view.


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Central Crafts

My first encounter with the ladies at Central Craft Alice Springs produced this little sketch:

I sat with a lady named Barbara, who is an extremely talented wildlife artist, and also watercolour tutor here in town. I'll defo be heading over to her class next Monday to brush up on my skills. Although, I think this one turned out rather nice - what do you think?

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25th Sketch Crawl :: Alice Springs [Results]

These are in reverse order, as we had a couple of 'coldies' here at Bo's Saloon at the end of the day (well at about lunchtime, I had to go to a cousin's baby shower in the arvo).

We stopped here for an apple juice mid-morning.

There was plenty of wildlife just hanging around in the shade up at the Old Telegraph Station.


The Old Telegraph Station.

Olive Pink Botanical Gardens, a rockery.

Olive Pink Botanical Gardens, a tree near the kiosk.

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Hair and Makeup

Kelly, in our backyard, circa 1997

Phil, our flatmate - he actually let me shave his head for the sake of art. Fantastic.

Some of my nerdiest, dorkiest friends, we did a 'drug addict' scene. LOL (it's funny because, if you knew them, you'd know how different this is from reality.)

Hayuri as Björk and Uma Thurman, cute!

Julie being a 'diva'

These are all from back in 1997, when I was training to do hair and makeup artistry, I worked in a 'glamour' photography studio for a while back then.

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Postcards from The Alice ~ watercolours

The Outback...

I do realise it's not really politically correct for whitefellas to do dot-paintings, but it's not as if I'm going to sell it! I found it really gave me an appreciation for how much work goes into those paintings.

this is behind my Mum's house, nice reflection on the water.

Postcards from The Alice

Gettin' the desert vibe...

25th World Wide Sketchcrawl - Sat Nov 21st '09

What is SketchCrawl? Well, it's rather like a pubcrawl, but with pencil and paper (and paint, pens, what have you). Only it happens worldwide on the same day, roughly every 2 months. It's fun, and it's free! The best sketches from around the world are gathered and displayed here: www.urbansketchers.com

Well this sketchcrawl is the 5th anniversay and I will be in the Red Centre of the Universe. I would like to invite any fellow artists to come and join me! I'm thinking to start at the Gap at around 9am.

If anyone is interested drop me a line here or on the SC forum. www.sketchcrawl.com

Let's put Alice Springs on the map!

Travel Diary ~ Thailand (Phuket)

OK so I was trapped in my jungle hut during a monsoon and happened to have some footage, so I put this little number together one afternoon. I enjoyed it so much, shall have to do it again one day! I've got so much more footage here now, of Spain and other parts of Europe... Perhaps I should make it my little project for this week?



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My skydiving video ~ Byron Bay

I re-edited this one from the video I got at the drop-zone, as the music they chose wasn't to my taste! LOL, I'm uploading it as an example of my handywork. It took me a bit of mucking around but eventually got it off the video & into the computer, then separated the audio from the visual and laid the new soundtrack over the top before burning the whole thing to DVD. There is a full lenghth version, but this one has been chopped down to save your bandwidth. Enjoy!!



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Barcelona & London sketches

These I did in the last few days in Barcelona. All a bit rushed but I wanted to capture some stuff before I left, as it just is way different to sketch in open air than doing it from photos...

Catedral in Barrio Gotico

Sagrada Familia

Debussy by Catalan Sculptor Maillol @ La Pedrera, Barcelona

Eva by Lluis Montane and Mullfulleda in the Museu Dali, Portal de Angels, Barcelona

Lecester Square, London (near Soho District)

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What I did on the plane...

Somewhere between London and Abu Dhabi (after that I pretty much fell asleep for the remainder of the trip). The picture was drawn from a photo on the inside cover of "Homage to Catalonia", a book written by George Orwell in the 1930's about his time living in Barcelona and fighting in the Spanish civil war - it's a must read for anyone who has ever lived in Spain, extremely insightful. You may have read his other books; "Animal Farm" and "1984", which were also inspired by his time in Barcelona.

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Barrio Gotico

A quick sketch session with Cesar the other day in Gotico, I really need to figure out how to turn these pix around...hrmph! It's starting to get cold over here now and we got the last bit of sunlight, it seems.