The entry that failed to take the top prize at the Bald Archies this year but placed well nevertheless

His Assholiness placed in the top 3 (or 4 with the winner can't really be sure)
Acrylic on canvas

Julian (Bad)ass..ange. A sketch

2010..Penil on paper

Marliyn

Acrylic on canvas. 2005 for an illustrators' exhibition in Sydney

Donald Horne and Tom Jones: 2 illustrations for the Australian Magazine

Studies and sketches

Jean-Dominique Ingres
Natalie Imbroglia
Elvis
Isabelle Adjani

Galileo Galilei, a sketch

Graphite on paper (Sept, 2010)
A quick study of Galileo's head..I'd rather not go ahead with any "finished" drawing..I like it as it is..rough, sketchy and gestural..But who knows? Tomorrow I may think it's just crap..(Sigh)..Actually coming to think of it, the eye on the right is a bit ..oh, never mind..

Mirror mirror on the wall... Who's the greatest of them all?

(Velasquez . Graphite on paper. Sept 2010..)

Yes he's the greatest. I can hardly imagine any other in the same league (except Vermeer of course)..

Van Gogh head study

Graphite on paper..A study for Van Gogh painting.
Not as much fun as I wished it to be but there's nothing to laugh at with Van Gogh who's life was an experience in the misery of being an underestimated artist..He only sold one painting during his entire life...to his brother!

Gustave Flaubert, a sketch

Graphite on paper..in preparation for a painting

Shakespeare

Pastel on paper..2o05..For sale ( as everything else when not sold)
Less caricature than tweaking..plyaing with the shape and pushing it around..

Jim Morrisson (The Doors)

Acrylic on illustration board 1993..For sale

Mozart, a caricature

Pastel on paper 2009..For sale

Dianne Gameson

More stylised than caricatured. One of three illustrations commissioned by Illustrators Australia for their annuel book 2005..Dianne is/was Victoria's president of the Association..

Fashionistas

Acrylic on illustration board..2005...

David Baker

Mixed Media on paper..2005..More stylised than caricatured. One of three illustrations for Illustrators Australia's yearbook. David is/was the president of the Association.. David Baker's collection.

Charecters of interest redux

Acrylic on paper- 2004

Jazzman Steve

Pastel on paper..1993- Illustration for Jeune Afrique ( France)

Nicole Kidman

Acrylic on canvas ..Entry to the Bald Archy in 2007..For sale. This is only a scan of a page from the Daily telegraph.

Edouard Vuillard, a Fauve

Acrylic on canvas..For sale

Pin Up, a caricature

Acrylic on canvas 2007..For sale

My third win at the Bald Archy

Acrylic on canvas. The Bald Archy collection

The Bald Archy Prize – The Alternative Archibald

5 – 22 April, Coffs Harbour

Created in 1994 as a spoof of that more serious competition, the Bald Archy provides artists of all styles and standards with a genuine opportunity, ranging from the hilarious to the bizarrely vulgar, to create portrait paintings of humour, dark satire, light comedy or caricature. Winning subjects over the years have included Kerry Packer, Amanda Vanstone, Edmund Capon, Shane Warne, Dame Edna Average, John Howard and Pauline Hanson, Robbie and Gai Waterhouse, Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Kennet, Cardinal George Pell and Tony Abbott, and Ian Thorpe. Website www.wagga.nsw.gov.au

John Howard

Acrylic on canvas 2004..Entry to the Bald Archy Prize in 2005. For sale

Rupert Murdoch...Second win at the Bald Archy Prize 2004

Acrylic on canvas 2003..Collection of the Bald Archy Prize.

Ian Thorpe..My first win at the Archies

Ian Thorpe - Acrylic on canvas..My first win at the Bald Archy Prize 2002 ..Collection of the Bald Archy Prize

Rembrandt ....a caricature

Mixed media on heavy paper..2002...For sale

Samuel Beckett

Pastel on paper..Winner of the "Festival International Du Dessin Humouristique" of Anglet (France 1991)