PeterNeish

Plane Trees in the Fitzroy Gardens. Mid winter and quite cold. Pen and ink 9×11cm.

Tasma terrace in East Melbourne. Houses the national trust office and also a great cafe called the commune. Pen and ink 9 x 11cm.

Collins Street as viewed from the steps of the Treasury Building. Pen and ink 9×11 cm

Hawthorn station - pen and ink 9×11cm

A sketch of the North-Eastern corner of Parliament House in Victoria as viewed from the garden. 11 x 9cm (roughly actual size on my screen).

I’m back - just thought I’d take a year off while I had a crazy year of work, changing jobs and reorganising! Better ease into this lightly with some quick sketches. Here’s a little doodle. Might do some more of these…

Oil on canvas (apologies for the poor photo). Over painting the flower in the top right, I created this composition based on a shadow box display. Its also a reference to the collection of objects - either by museums or herbaria or individuals. Why do we collect what we do? How are these objects related?  Why did I choose these objects? I’m not really sure myself.

Have been playing around with some quick acrylic sketches on paper to try and get a bit of looseness into my work. Managed to do eight of these in about 2 hours and had a lot of fun. Here are a couple from this session.

This a painting done in acrylic based on the conte sketch below. Not sure that acrylic is the medium for me, but allowed me to work quickly and to do some layering of textures (particularly on the wall behind).