Steve

today's oil portrait of Steve, 20 x 16 a bit under 2 hours

Grahame

yesterdays  portrait of Grahame, 16 x 20 oil about 2 hours

Jenny

Saturday's portrait was of Jenny Lloyd, who is one of the artists sharing the Piggery Lane Studios
Oil 20 x 16

The Piggery Lane Studios will be open this Saturday as part of the Autumn Festival... with the adjoining Earthcare Fair, and the Secret Garden Autumn Fair all open... with Food, Music and Activities.

I am trying to reorganize my workspace and display

Hawkesbury Show & latest Portrait

some of  the paintings I'm putting into this week's Hawkesbury Show

and after hanging paintings all morning to help set up the Hawkesbury Show, we painted this sitter in the afternoon

Latest

a portrait from Saturday's portrait group, about 2 hours

and one that I have been working on with my weekly 'tutoring' session

Georgy

Saturday's  20 x 16 Oil portrait of Georgy, about 2 hours

Painting the Mayor

The 2012 Archibald Prize finalists exhibition is currently being displayed at the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery and a number of local artists were invited to paint a portrait of Hawkesbury Mayor Kim Ford. He sat for the portrait in the gallery on Tuesday 12th February... not in his mayoral chains and robes!
... and the portraits will be on display at the Gallery after the 23rd.
here are a few action photos... and how  my painting  finished up.

the regular Thursday plein air paint-out  was very hot and windy, and the watercolour painters had a bit of difficulty especially with the wind blowing the easels around... I decided to just stick with the gum tree under the shade.

16x 12 oil

last two portraits

 Oil portrait of young Harry at our last group session in November, wearing traditional Indian dress

at yesterday's session I tried a watercolour and an oil painting of Jamison, this is the oil

Portrait workshop with Evert Ploeg

highly regarded portrait artist Evert Ploeg decided at short notice to put on a portrait painting workshop at his studio on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th November. I noticed it on his fb page and decided to go along, it was 2 days of painting  with enjoyable and useful discussions with 7 artists including our uncomplaining model, artist Greg Somers.
this was my effort ... with a little tweaking of the background and shirt

Ian

Ian was our sitter today, I have already painted an oil portrait of him before, so I thought I'd try something different, and did a one hour Conte drawing and a one hour Pastel drawing

Life Drawing Exhibition

The first weekend in November is our Life Drawing Group Exhibition, traditionally called the 'Fruits of the Figure' exhibition after the now defunct 'Fruits of the Hawkesbury' Festival of which it used to be a part.

13 artists in the group, and we all set up our own sections... this is a photo of my display, some paintings, a pile of portraits and folders of drawings.

a photo of the photographer Kylie Pitt from the local paper taking a photo of me.

kaya

kaya, the last group portrait for October

current paintings

some paintings I have been working on with the thought of maybe entering into some shows... but I'm not sure if they are up to it yet.

Alan

I sometimes do two different portraits at our 3 hour group sessions, this week's portrait of Alan were   40 minute and 80 minute sketches.

Peter

Oil portrait of Peter from this week, linen panel 20 x 16

Portrait & Life drawing

a 2hr  portrait, 16 x 20 Oil  from last week

and a 20 minute life drawing

Adelaide

today's oil portrait of Adelaide 16 x 20 oil, 100 minutes

Springwood Art Show

Awarded the portrait prize at the Springwood Art Show for this painting

one of four that I entered

Kathryn

today's 2 hour oil portrait 20 x 16