Some Works In Charcoal On Paper

Two statues in Adelaide Art Gallery

Charcoal Works on Paper

I've been using a bit of the various types of charcoal of late. Pencil, compressed stick and the basic sticks (not sure of actual name for these!)Working onto paper and often doing quick sketches of people I spend time with. On one occasion I attended a lecture during Adelaide Festival of Ideas and sketched the speaker and facillitator. All good practice in speed work.

This is my wife Karen, reading in my studio. Messed up the nose a bit but it is only a preliminary work to a possible oil painting.

Australia's glorious PM (Julia) and the Leader of the Opposition (Tony)

Two views of the same guy but the first a much quicker work.

A new week and more of the same to come. Last week was a good one for me as far as art is concerned. I was a bit slack on the exercise front but that'll become a familiar refrain I'm sure. I worked on a couple of charcoal drawings and produced a nice one of Ian Curtis (Joy Division singer) from a photo by Kevin Cummings. Not sure of the legalities should I want to sell it. A fellow artist who shares my studio space thinks that at least 20% of a picture should be altered to avoid copyright issues. I also added figures to three paintings of a series I've been working on. I'm relating it back to my family's convict history and have ghostly images from that time painted over a plain(ish) landscape background. One of a convicts head, one of a pair of chained convicts and one of an aboriginal man running towards the viewer. Met with a gallery owner yesterday who was a good source of info and a new lead. It's a major gallery as far as Adelaide goes. His advice, get some workonto a disc and submit it. He has regular viewings of new art and meets artists on a Wednesday. Worth a go.