No Bones About It

Thematic drawing based on animal and human skeletons

Pyrography on distressed plywood frame

Where the Buffaloes Roam

Semi-abstract stencil landscape diptych

Acrylic of gessoed canvases

Against the Wall

Semi-abstract landscape based on the Redcliffe War Memorial

Mixed media on gessoed plywood

Old Man of the North

Portrait of a Canadian lynx

Coloured pencils on cartridge paper

Pretty Ugly

Semi-abstract portrait in Yi Chen`s style

Acrylic of gessoed plywood

Broken Up

Abstract painting of bones and skulls

Acrylic on gessoed plywood

Snake Eyes

Still-life composition

Conté crayons on inked Kraft paper

A Brush with Greatness

Still-life composition of Chinese paintbrushes

Coloured pencils on cartridge paper

Pictish Harp

 

Prototype Pictish harp, based from photo of the Dupplin Harper from Scotland.

Neck, pillar and front of the soundbox is bunya pine, back of soundbox is camphor laurel, inlays and pin spine is jarrah.

66cm high X 44cm length X 15cm wide

19 strings, tuned from A3 (below middle C) to E6

Sunbather

Basking water dragon at Roma street parklands.

Acrylic on gessoed plywood panel

Camp For Laurel

Camphor laurel tree at Roma street parklands.

Acrylic on gessoed plywood panel

Eye Phone

Appropriated painting of Magritte's "Son of Man". Another one of our school projects.

This is my tribute to the late Steve Jobs.

Acrylic on canvas

The Secret Forest

Final self-image project. From left to right; willow, maple and oak trunks.

Plywood construct and acrylic paints

Me, me, me...

Self-portrait sketches.

Left drawing is Shin-Han Twin Touch markers on Letraset paper,

right drawing is 2B graphite pencil on plain paper

Bottoms up!

Quick sketch of my pewter tankard mug.

2B graphite pencil on plain paper

Good Times

Reverse drawing still life study.

Charcoal on plain paper

Beauty Lost

Study of a decaying rose.

Derwent watercolour pencils on heavy paper

Ilves

Ten string Finnish kantele. Thank you for the blueprints, Michael. :)

Solid camphor laurel body with New Guinea rosewood ponsi  and Queensland maple soundboard

The Lyre of Rohan

Prototype Anglo-Saxon lyre.

New Guinea rosewood body with front veneer of spotted gum and Australian red cedar.

Chui

African kalimba.

Pyroetched camphor laurel with leaf rake tines