"The Trojan Horse" Charcoal on Paper

You've heard the story right? The trojan horse..

So anyway, there's this dusty red town where a huge industrious steel horse is located. It casts a shadow over the whole town. Some of the people living there don't mind being in the shadow of this metalic beast and feel protected by it's bulky majestic frame. They feel that it really is a gift to the people living there, and many of them have grown to actually love the structure. However, there are others in the town who don't enjoy living in the shadow cast by the iron horse. They want to live more in the sun. To them the horse is not a gift but more a curse.

Sure I paint, but it's fun to draw analogys from time to time.

"Burden" Charcoal on Paper

We've all been there I guess. We learn and move on.

"Smokescape" Charcoal on Paper

An environmental musing... there's a beautiful flower that grows mainly in South Australian desert regions. It's called the "Sturt Desert Pea". Unfortunately the other thing growing out there (only more rapidly) is the uranium industry.

"The Letter" Charcoal to Oil on Canvas..

The beginnings of a painting I completed recently as part of the "New Art Six" exhibition. Had a lot of fun mapping this one out and eventually painting it. The coloured vesion below is not the completed painting by the way, but gives you some idea on my application choices.

"Self Portrait" Oil on Canvas

I used my Wacom tablet for this one. It's pretty much an adventure in colour I took one afternoon after doing the charcoal drawing on a large canvas. I photographed the linework and then experimented in PhotoShop and another software program called Painter. I was trying to decide on a good colour choice for the final oil on canvas..

"Greener Pastures" Pastel on Watercolour Paper

Just finished and currently on exhibition.. had it pinned to the studio wall for quite some time just adding colour and line here and there over the last several weeks. It's about moving on whether in the literal sense or not. I'm hoping the irony is not lost on the purchaser of the work particularly since the greener pastures seen here are actually towards the city rather than the country side.

"Love and Burden" Charcoal on Paper

Infatuation, ambitiion, struggle, memory, family, creativity.. it's all there. Love and burden.

Work in Progress: "The Question Begs the Answer" (7 X 4 ft)

Can't say much about the current work at this stage except it is taking up much of my time and thoughts.. So good to be drawing again though!