Wow!

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This state of the union is cooked, long, rambly, dumb and scary. The world is getting the DARVO treatment from a hyperwealthy pedophile psychopathic fascist. The end . Fuck off.

@bakerart.bsky.social

@bakerart.bsky.social Your work is amazing. Here's some of my work.

Love your work.

A loosely drawn sketch of Magdalene Street, Cambridge with Magdalene College on the right. Indian ink with watercolour and some heightening with white.

Watercolour drawing looking up Magdalene Street in Cambridge over the bridge. I think the young lady who bought this from me unframed was from Japan.

My watercolour and gouache on-the-spot painting of Christ's Pieces in Cambridge, a popular well-kept park with colourful flower beds. The sun is throwing the shadows of the trees across the grass. The central buildings have since been demolished and replaced. The spire is the redundant Victorian church All Saints' which is regularly opened for exhibitions and for people to see the beautiful Arts and Crafts wall decorations. This painting among others was bought by Rose-Marie, a lovely lady I got to know via my paintings and who sat for several portraits. which I still have. I think this was one of the ones she gave to her daughter and son-in-law who live in the US.

The 1980s saw me regularly cyclilng round Cambridge looking for views to paint, usually putting my bike on its stand and balancing my drawing board on the handlebars. This is a watercolour and gouache sketch of Christ's Pieces, a central park (see alt text).
#Cambridge #watercolour

You do limited pallete well!

A pastel showing a figure walking along a path with trees against a misty light. This was done on a vintage sheet of maroon-coloured Ingres paper.

One of my pastels from nearly 30 years ago showing a path across Jesus Green in Cambridge. I think this was late in the year with a few leaves hanging on to the trees with some autumn colour remaining. It was bought by a late friend and is now with his family.
#Cambridge #pastel #painting

Not one word about strong policies to address education, health or housing just to name a few. All of them are vacuous and predictable.

Single frame. Chris Minns stands beside a massive tonne weight marked NSW POLICE being lowered by a crane. Visible sticking out from under the weight are hands, legs, a woman’s face, a keffiyeh and placards saying “NO TO GENOCIDE”, “FREE PALESTINE”, “HERZOG OUT”, “NO TO VIOLENCE” Minns says, “Thst should socially cohere them nicely.”

Cohesion.
My @smh cartoon.

This is what I expect from a politician, fighting for future generations rather than fighting for fossil fuel profits.
Good onya Nick, my shout next time I see you.

@maiwandwardak001.bsky.social I can see you are a good man. Have one of my drawings.

We are about to complete four years since the fall of Kabul by the Taliban, and Afghan girls are still not allowed to study. 💔

This little Afghan girl says, “Don’t move me to a safe place, make my home a place of peace for me”.
🖤♥️💚 🇦🇫

Light filtering through the trees in Christ's Pieces, a park in central Cambridge, watercolour and Indian ink, with a lady in a pink dress wheeling her bicycle. This one sold at an exhibition.
#Cambridge #christspieces #watercolour

I love these. So free with heaps of energy just like the music. The 4th one has the music playing in the white space.
Thank you.

Alan Rochford conducting with two violinists

An ink sketch of an orchestra rehearsal in Cambridge with a singer.

Rather a crumpled ink and watercolour live sketch of an orchestra rehearsal

Orchestra rehearsal live sketch with watercolour + pen and ink.

Sketching an orchestra practice in the '90s. I was later asked to send some of these to a publisher and they were used in a book, but they came back quite crumpled. There are more of them. Pleased to look back at the life that one can express drawing directly without a camera
#violins #orchestra

Life drawing of a bearded model at a life drawing session

Ink drawing of Peter, life class model
#lifedrawing #indianink #dip-pen

My Sulphur Crested Cockatoo.

2nd hand clothes seller at a cloth market in Newcastle, 19th century.
She's reading a book and seems to think the bloomin' photographer is a dodgy character.
I think we would have gotten along.

Photograph: NEMiPA- Collection of the Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle

Oh No!

Riya Naskar prints

JENNINGS: “Let's not get our knickers in a twist here.”

MCGOWAN: “Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying.”🔥

Good to see that more and more steamrolling Scott and the Smug Face he tries to throw up. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

(H/T @acyn.bsky.social )

I want to watch you paint!

@amyremeikis.bsky.social
Just re-upping this again because the Temu Trumps in the LNP insist on bringing every culture war here: the Morrison govt spent $20.8bn on consultants in its final year - the equivalent of 54,000 FT public servants. The private sector benefits with govt cuts. No one else.

Thanks for your amazing work!