Still Life with Bone Handle Knife and Onion

 

This painting didn't quite turn out as I'd hoped: I think I'd better bone up a little so I really know my onions.

Oil on canvas board, 8" x 10"

Off Dunbars Road, Carlsruhe

 

This painting is pretty much finished -- it's all Dunbar the shouting.

Oil on canvas board, 12" x 16"

Carlsruhe Railway Station

 

I found there was a certain degree of difficulty painting this building from such an angle causing me to wonder if perhaps I had ideas above my station.

Oil on canvas board, 8" x 10"

Tomato with Brown Schnapps Bottle

I pick my tomatoes ripe, and I pick my bottles wisely.

Oil on canvas board, 4" x 6"

Off Breakneck Road, Near Malmsbury

 

This is somewhat larger than my usual outdoor effort, so it was essential to paint quickly (though not quite at the speed suggested by the location).

Oil on canvas board, 12" x 16"

Apple with Small Blue Vase

 

The vase played a blue note; the apple struck a cored.

Oil on canvas board, 4" x 6"

Pipers Creek Landscape

 

I was painting these rolling hills when a couple of cows hooved into view.

Oil on canvas board, 8" x 10"

Silo, East Metcalfe

 

I'm worried that the reproduction of this silo painting might be a bit grainy.

Oil on canvas board, 8" x 10"

Kyneton from Pleasant Hill Road

 

This is the fifth painting I've posted featuring Pleasant Hill Road -- you could say I rode the gravy train.

Oil on canvas board, 8" x 10"

P.S. I reckon this might be a very similar scene to the one Graeme Inson painted here (http://thepictorialcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/100_1220_Fotor_20130407.jpg) which I've been trying to find for many years.

Mount Macedon from Pleasant Hill Road, Kyneton

 

This was a quick sketch and I wasn't sure if it would amount to anything (except maybe for a mount).

Oil on canvas board, 8" x 10"

Pleasant Hill Road, Kyneton

 

Pleasant Hill Road has been the subject of many of my recent paintings; it seems I just can't dispense with the pleasantries.

Oil on canvas board, 8" x 10"

Small Copper Ewer with Pear

 

A pitcher might be worth a thousand words, but a ewer is worth much fewer (though certainly more than a pair).

Oil on canvas board, 4" x 6"

Manna Gum, Pleasant Hill Road, Kyneton

 

I've painted a lot of manna gums: different times, different mannas.

Oil on canvas board, 12" x 16"

Pleasant Hill Road, Kyneton

 

Pleasant Hill Road does indeed live up to its name; so pleasant, in fact, you could say I really took to the hill.

Oil on canvas board, 8" x 10"

Still Life with Porcelain Jug and Apple

 

This is a painting done as a demo for Emilio Longo's Skill-Based Art: A Learning Resource for Art Students & Artist-Teachers™  (https://skillbasedart.weebly.com/).  The demo should be on the website early in the new year.

There will also be an interview with yours truly, though I'm embarrassed to say I spoke for almost three hours in a tedious ramble about myself.

Benjamin Disraeli is alleged to have said "Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours"; in my case it seems if one asks a man about himself he will talk for hours (literally).

Still Life with Bone Handle Knife

 

This was going to be a painting about an apple, but I killed that idea when I put the knife in.

Oil on canvas board, 16" x 20"

Still Life with Lemon and Ladle

 

Knock knock
Who's there?
Soup ladle
Soup ladle who?
Sue played a little tune on the piano.

Sorry, that joke's a lemon.

Oil on canvas board, 16" x 20"

Squash with Milk Jug

 

Milk run, squash caught.

Oil on canvas board, 4" x 6"

Harts Lane, Kyneton

 

Although I drove to this location, I had to walk around a bit before I found the scene I wanted to paint.  You could say, I put Hart and sole into it.

Oil on canvas board, 8" x 10"

Hodges Road, East Metcalfe

 

I didn't meet a calf when I was in Metcalfe, but there were plenty of cows.

Oil on canvas board, 8" x 10"

Still Life with Small Copper Jug

 

Onions are brown, pumpkins are green,
And a small copper jug is the star of the scene.

Oil on canvas board, 16" x 20"

Figure Study

 

The thinking man's figure study.

Oil on canvas board, 16" x 20"