Pear with Earthenware Jar

An earthenpear jar.

Oil on canvas board, 6" x 4"

Plastic Grapes in Wine Glass

A white wine known for it's distinctively rugged mouthfeel.

Oil on canvas board, 4" x 6"

Banana on Leather-Bound Book

There are many books on bananas, but very few bananas on books.

Oil on canvas board, 6" x 4"

Maribyrnong River at Moonee Ponds

Despite the pleasant scene, painting was difficult due to the proliferation of passers-by who were a little too keen to offer suggestions.  They tended to interrupt the flow.

Oil on canvas board, 10" x 8"

Workshop at Rosebery Hill, Pipers Creek

I'd work up a bad pun about this glorified tool-shed only I don't want to talk shop.

Oil on canvas board, 8" x 10"

Tomato with Small Chinese Teapot

A teamato.

Oil on canvas board, 4" x 6"

Laneway off Fitzgibbon Street, Parkville

On this particular morning, I found a scene to paint only a few steps from my door.  The close proximity to my house meant that I could take my time and experience life in the slow lane.

Oil on canvas board, 8" x 10"

Houses on Wimble Street, Parkville

Painting on a whim-ble.

Oil on canvas board, 8" x 10"

Red Pepper with Glass Vase

This is not a drawing on pepper but an oil on can-vase.

Oil on canvas board, 4" x 6"

Copper Kettle with Plastic Fruit

Each of these pieces of fruit is merely a plastic simulacrum--a bit like the real thing only a different kettle of fish.

Oil on canvas board, 10" x 12"

Rear of Parkville Store from Butler Lane, Parkville

Sunday's beautiful sunny afternoon cast strong shadows across this Parkville laneway--a scene in fact, that was right up my alley (well, a neighbouring alley technically, otherwise it would have been right up my street).

Oil on canvas board, 8" x 10"

Rear of House from Bayles Street, Parkville

After many months of imprisonment imposed by the cold and grey winter weather, I was out on Bayles painting in the spring sunshine.

Oil on canvas board, 8" x 10"

Blue Castor Oil Bottle with Mandarine

Rather than making a bad pun about a mandarine and a bottle, I think I'll peel off and put a cork in it.

Oil on canvas board, 4" x 6"

Back Study

Not so much back to the drawing board as back to the easel. (Four-week class exercise.)

Oil on canvas board, 20" x 16"

Lemon-Scented Gum, Royal Park

Spring has sprung and the temperate weather has brought some rather pleasant mornings.  Indeed, as depicted here, happiness is a warm gum.

Oil on canvas board, 8" x 10"

Urn and Brick Pillars at Rosebery Hill, Pipers Creek

To be a pillar of society is a position earned.

Oil on canvas board, 8" x 10"

Being an exhibitionist

Lamp-Post in Australian Native Garden, Royal Park

The Australian Native Garden at Royal Park was designed by Grace Fraser in the mid-nineteen seventies and is devoted interesting Australian native trees and shrubs; however, I suspect the illuminating feature of this painting might be an introduced species.

Oil on canvas board, 8" x 10"

Copper Jug with Carrot

According to Wikipedia, "Eighteen karat red gold may be made of 25% copper and 75% gold".  In comparison, my little painting consists of 50% copper of only one carrot.

Oil on canvas board, 6" x 4"

Self Portrait with Green Beanie

While I might not necessarily be a shadow of my former self, this is my former self (circa Tuesday morning) partially in shadow.

Oil on canvas board, 5" x 7"

Pear with Silver-Plated Jug

A pear and a jug with an obscured handle--not to be confused with poor old George Frideric Handel, for whom everything was obscured.

Oil on canvas board, 6" x 4"

Plastic Skull

This particular piece of plastic is known in my flat as Douglass, and the act of painting him as skulduggery.

Oil on canvas board, 4" x 6"