Margaret

yesterday's portrait of Margaret, 20 x 16 oil on canvas,  80 minutes

Archibald entry

I thought it was about time to start entering  paintings into some exhibitions, never tried the Archibald... so here goes. Earth Colour Pastellist Greg Hansell, Oil 36 x 30

Georgia

yesterday's oil portrait of Georgia, 16 x 20 detail

Phoebe

I'm  in the middle of a two week landscape painting workshop with John Wilson, but Saturday was our regular Portrait group, here's this weeks study of Phoebe, oil on linen 20 x 16

Anastaysia

detail of yesterday's 2 hour study of Anastaysia 24 x 18 oil

Sansnee

24 x 18 oil portrait of Sansnee painted at the Piggery studio  from a couple of live sittings

self portrait

I thought it was about time I tried a self portrait!

Bert's Portrait

Bert came round to the studio today and I did a bit more to his portrait, there's plenty more that could be done to it but I'll leave it as it is... as one for the record!

Hannah

I painted a live study of Hannah on Saturday, and did another sketch from a photo reference

Bert's Portrait

did some more to Bert's Portrait today

Two portraits of Austin

an 80 minute20 x 16 oil  portrait of Austin

 I decided not to do any more to it and painted another one in the remaining 40 minutes

Bert Moriarty

began an oil portrait of Bert today about 100 minutes, oil 24 x 18, hopefully we can arrange another session next week

Exhibition

this weekend we had the annual exhibition of our Thursday night figure drawing group, traditionally called the "Fruits of the Figure' exhibition from when it was part of the now defunct and council sponsored 'Fruits of the Hawkesbury' Festivals.
I showed a small selection of work from this year on the wall, four folders with 40 drawings in each, a digital frame with over 350 images from the past few years and  had some recent portraits on the floor as well as a stand with some framed paintings.

more still lifes

a couple more 10 x 8 still life's from this week... good practice!

a change of pace

I've decided to start doing some still life's 

and am gearing up to get back to plein air paintings

Lisa

today's portrait of Lisa, Oil 16 x 20

painting nearly finished

Skirts, Shirts & Flirts

Some paintings I exhibited at the 'Shirts, Skirts & Flirts' exhibition at the Deerubbin Centre, Windsor this weekend.

Igga

Today's oil portrait of Igga, 16 x 20

Robyn

Today's oil portrait of Robyn, 16x 20 on linen, approx 2 hours