Grace and me, and a Brolga, and a Bottle Tree

 

Getting there, actually almost ompete, come along to the launch and as we celebrate Pastor Brian's farewell on December 9

Humpback Dancing

 

I found a bit of space for Humpback dancing out the back

Getting really close to finishing our Australiana mural now - "gettin' there" as Grace would say, a phrase that really annoyed her not long ago. She's outlining all the plants now, while I finish the animals and add a few I forgot.

Last requests very soon

 

Beginning of a bottle tree 

 

Henry

 

The left side of the mural

 

Right hand side

Henry the Lorikeet in Grace's garden

 

Grace's lorikeet Henry bolted recently at dusk, I hope he made it, here he's checking out some nectary flowers

 

garden with kangaroos and galahs

 

bilby maybe

 

brolga dancing and a magpie

T the emu a bit more finished, and a wallaby

 

frilly

 

 

a pair of geese from the other day

Brian the Womabt

 

The wombat at the entrance of his burrow

 

Platypus in  the Billabong

 

The right hand side of the panel. Grace's trees are looking awesome

 

Yabby

 

The whole scene

 

The Sun!

Goanna

 

We'll be working hard to finish for Pastor Brian's farrewell on december 9

 

murray cod

 

Powerful Owl

Amazing Grace

Pygmy Geese Garden

 

Pygmy geese and an unfinished Tassie devil

 

The billabong on wed November 15

 

The brushtail possum fixed up a bit -  a lot of the animals still need some work

 

A powerful owl, still pretty sketchy

 

Pygmy goose and some gorgeous plants

 

Seagull on the lookout for chips

Ocean View

Someone made an inspired suggestion to Grace of putting the ocean in the Australiana billabong scene so I did that today. She's really getting the hang of the oil paint now, painting more plants, living patterns.

I've been painting a possum's nose pink and fixing her claws, as well as sketching in a powerful owl next to her in the fig tree, but photos will have to wait till next time.

Meanwhile, images of the billabong scene in progress and closeups of the plants and animals can be seen in the previous pages, most recently here. 

All the links for the Australiana mural are collected here 

Wallabies and leaves on the trees

 

Grace working on some foliage on the trees around the billabong

 

a frill necked lizrad and the deaf adder