Last week on my drawing board

A bit late in posting this, but I've now completed this commissioned piece. I don't really have a name for it, but have been calling it "Mo & Co." It's gouache and acrylic on wood panel, 18" x 24" and has now gone to it's home in Oregon, where it will be a birthday present for a very young man, here seen sitting on a log petting a frog. Maureen, the client (left) was a pleasure to work with. Truly a fun project!

Come September

A random selection of September New Yorker covers.

Saul Steinberg Sept 2014. Untitled, c. 1967

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Abstract Saturday: Elisabeth Cummings

Cummings is an Australian artist born in 1934. She's been painting since the 1950s, quietly and with a small but devoted following. Now in her 70s, she lives an idyllic life in a kind of artists' community in the west of Sydney, while her work gets better than ever.

Elisabeth Cummings (b. 1934) Still Life with Jug 2004

Elisabeth Cummings (Australia 1934 – ) Black Sally reflections, Namadgi 1996 via. ("Black Sally" is the common name for the Eucalyptus stellulata.) — Elisabeth Cummings (Australia 1934 – ) Black Sally reflections, Namadgi 1996 via. ("Black Sally" is the common name for the Eucalyptus stellulata.)

White Still Life 2013 Oil on Canvas 101x126cm via Kingstreetgallery.com — White Still Life 2013 Oil on Canvas 101x126cm via Kingstreetgallery.com

This week on my drawing board

The Sunshine Launderama. New in my Etsy shop

Every few months I like to tackle something big and complicated. I enjoy painting on wood panels.

This week I'm also working on a commissioned painting for an Etsy client. Here's the sketch.

Abstract Saturday: Yvonne Audette

Born in 1930, Audette has been called Australia's greatest living abstract expressionist. Laboring in relative obscurity throughout the later 20th century, she finally gained the attention she deserved after a major book on her work was published in 2003: Yvonne Audette Paintings and Drawings 1949-2014 by Christopher Heathcote. Her early influence was Cezanne through her teacher John Passmore.