Ellis House Community Art Centre

The year was 1999 and at a tender 38 years of age, I joined the Bayswater Art Society. Since the early ’80s, I’d worked as an airbrush artist decorating custom painted vehicles, an illustrative signwriter painting massive murals on city buildings and...

Knockout caricature

When I’m not painting or blogging, I am the production manager at the Albany & Great Southern Weekender newspaper. Today, one of my caricatures adorned the front page. (Tuckey vs Crook. Digital. Original image 25x25cm @300dpi . © 2010, Andy...

Everyone’s an art critic!

Dirty Harry, a saltwater crocodile at Crocosaurus Cove in Darwin, was shown my recent caricatures of Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott.It’s hard to read a crocodile’s mind so I don’t know if snapping at Julia was a tick of approval for my digital...

Blog Frog: Digital painting

Another digital painting. This little guy (or girl?) is one of up to 30 green tree frogs that live in our backyard pond. They are so comfortable there that you can get within 30cm of them to take photos.  (Tree frog – digital painting. Original 1450 x...