Colour-in Canberra: The Suburban Duck

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The Suburban Duck

Fox close-up

Crow

At the moment I am painting two traffic control boxes in the Urban Services project ‘Colour-in Canberra’. The first one, The Suburban Duck, is on the corner of Yamba Drive and Kitchener St in Garran, just across the road from the Canberra Hospital. It tells a story from my back garden: about how foxes are an ever present danger to ducks in the suburbs, while crows have the place staked out and steal their eggs given half a chance. Its been really enjoyable painting out in the sun on and off the last few weeks.

So much depends upon a red dovecot…

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A bunch of local tertiary students had an installation of dovecots at Floriade this year. I was really happy with this photo of one of the dovecots.

Dovecot

It reminds me of that lovely William Carlos Williams poem, ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’:

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

Or even Dylan’s ‘Buckets of Rain’:


Little red wagon
Little red bike
I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.
I like the way you love me strong and slow,
I’m takin’ you with me, honey baby,
When I go.

I also liked seeing these ones as different faces. It would be fun to animate them!

Making the most of Floriade’s Rock & Roll theme were The Extremes:

And this captured some of my feeling about Floriade:

Catching up with Floriade

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Rock & Roll Rascals: Big Bad Teddy and Long Tall Sally

The Fool Factory‘s Rock & Roll Rascals, Big Bad Ted and Long Tall Sally rock it up during this year’s Floriade in Canberra. I made Ted’s winklepickers and Sal’s legs and shoes.

Month of Softies: Halloween Goblin

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This scrawny but fierce little goblin is my submission for Loobylu’s October Month of Softies theme, “All Hallow’s Hysteria”. He’s only about 5 inches tall, and made on the run.

Goblin