starting off a new painting

and today's portrait practice

from today's portrait group at the Hawkesbury Community Arts Workshop, WSU Richmond, 60 minute Oil and 30 minute Watercolour studies

  25 minute and 30 minute  sketches from this week's  life drawing groups

having my car being serviced I took another train ride to the city for a few hours, I visited the Museum of Contemporary art... I know these artists are trying hard to say something, but it strikes me that a lot of modern  art is like the sort of stuff that High School  art teachers would give their kids to do to keep them busy and try to be creative.

I enjoyed much more some of the things I found out on the streets

Today was the opening of  our exhibition commemorating Forty Years of the Hawkesbury Community Arts Workshop.

  Emeritus Professor Graham Swain AM (former Principal of HAC and retired Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Sydney and Chief Executive Officer opened the Exhibition, his speech covered the beginning of his role in the birth of the Western Sydney University, and the beginning of the Hawkesbury Community Arts Workshop, and it's 'mid life crisis'   with the changing relationship from the Hawkesbury  Agricultural College to WSU

The  Exhibition at the Margaret Whitlam Galleries,Female Orphan School, Building EZ, Western Sydney University (Parramatta Campus) i on until Friday 22 February 2019, Off Victoria Road, Rydalmere and is curated by  Monica McMahon, Art Curator, Western Sydney University

The Historical building is a wonderful venue for a beautiful exhibition of works by the variety of workshop members, the disability groups, and  works of Kevin Oxley who was one of the driving forces for establishing the Workshop.