Cyclocross Moose

Another in the Critters on Bikes series complete…

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Bull Moose Carries his ‘Cross Bike, March 2011, Acrylic on MDF, 60x50cm


Coming soon on Tim’s Art Blog:

More painting and comics shenanigans…

At It Again

After a hiatus of… well… far too long, we’re at it again.

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Finnegan is working on a series of pirate paintings…


…and I am back to painting critters on bikes.

I’ve recently read a couple books by Danny Gregory and Dan Price (and am now currently reading Creative License also by Danny Gregory) and have been doing a lot more drawing and journaling in my sketchbooks… which is something I’ve always done (more or less, at times) but I’ve made more of a point of it - taking it with me everywhere and drawing whenever I can.

The Firebird

I have a four year old daughter who is obsessed with ballet. In particular she is obsessed with Igor Stravinsky’s Ballet The Firebird. (More on that in a moment…). She also happened to love drawing and painting so for Xmas she received a a copy of Fionna Watt’s How to Draw Princesses and Ballerinas from her grandma.

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This is a wonderful little book. We have at least one other book by Fionna Watt about how to draw dinosaurs. The title is a little misleading as they are not JUST about drawing. There are a number of other projects involving multimedia, collage and painting. Even the drawing bits aren’t just your standard pencil drawing lessons, but almost all the projects are coloured and use crayons, chalk pastels, watercolour paints and other media.


In the book there is a collage/paintng project of The Firebird (did I mention she is obsessed with this ballet…?). So of course we had to do that one!

Also for Xmas we received a number of pre-stretched and gessoed canvases from Auntie Margie. So we decided to give those a try.


We actually started this project in early February… or maybe even the end of January…? We got a good start on them on afternoon, but had to stop and planned to continue the next day… but one thing lead to another and they just sat… for a MONTH(!?)… and we only just finished them up today!!


Keria Brown, The Firebird, March 2011, Acrylic Paint, Foil, and Paper Collage on Canvas, 28x35.5cm


Finnegan Brown, The Firebird, March 2011, Acrylic Paint, Foil, and Paper Collage on Canvas, 28x35.5cm


Tim Brown, The Firebird, March 2011, Acrylic Paint, Foil, and Paper Collage on Canvas, 28x35.5cm