On this occasion I managed to get my very (over?) precise painting hand to do something more or less impressionist. An Australian street scene for Australia Day – Fremantle Town Hall in the 1970s.
On this occasion I managed to get my very (over?) precise painting hand to do something more or less impressionist. An Australian street scene for Australia Day – Fremantle Town Hall in the 1970s.
I just finished another (digital) painting project. A winter street scene this time, Queen’s Square, Wolverhampton in the esrly 20th century. I think this group of buildings, which still survive not all that much changed have a certain appeal.
As usual, the onset of overly hot Perth summer measure has turned my mind to snowy paintings, so I worked from a range of photographs of this group but transposed them into a wintery snow scene. As with many of my projects this one sort-of grew in terms of the level of detail and took far longer than I expected!
“The Escape” … a mixture of still life from imagination/memory and subtle surrealism.
The Triang Princess was the first locomotive in their range, an existing model they purchased from Rovex that became the foundation of their entire range. It was first produced in British Railways unlined black with a pair of rather ‘distinctive’ LMS coaches. It would be soiled under a range of names and numbers from the end of the forties ’til the mid-seventies.
This set of drawings re-imagines these classic toys as real-world locomotives.
I have completed this set of drawings to represent all those liveries and also a couple of ‘neverwassas’, the sort of livery with which a modeller of the time might have adorned their model.
Some progress has been made…
This is Surrey Chambers, on the corner of St Geoprges Terrace and Howard Street. Another one of Perth’s beautiful lost buildings, though I think this one was significantly damaged in the Meckering earthquake. My second Perth Heritage painting, this time in (digital) pencil and wash. Based on a photograph that showed the building not long after completion.
I’ve been experimenting with repeating patterns again. This one tries to combine an Australian theme with the style of William Morris. I think this tis getting closer to a Morris like style than earlier attempts…
The Triang/Triang-Hornby/Hornby “Switcher” was one of the generic overseas models included in their OO gauge model range. At various times it appeared in Australian liveries, Canadian liveries and generic overseas ones, including the eponymous Triang Railways. I like to portray these fictitious models as if they were real world rolling stock. This project isa broad selection of the different switcher models produced over the years given a real-world look.
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