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25.01.2022 Tool of the Day sketch - my Dual-Diamond Grit Fret file. Used to re-crown frets after levelling. A good tool. #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #luthierie #luthier #luthierworkshop #theartlife #artstudio #make_art_stayathome
24.01.2022 Quick sketch of a possible pen and wash piece for Fort Lytton. #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #fortlyttonnationalpark #fortlyttonhistoricalassociation #militaryarchitecture #make_art_stayathome
24.01.2022 Tool of the Day Sketch #3 - The Jaws of Death. These are magical fretcutters that I bought from Jescar in the USA and slice through the hardest of frets - stainless steel, EVO Gold etc. Death to anybody who uses them to cut anything else. #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #luthierie #luthier #theartlife #artstudio #luthierworkshop#jescarfrets #jescar
24.01.2022 Tool Of The Day sketch - my fret tang nippers. Fretwork requires a lot of interesting looking tools. #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #theartlife #artstudio #luthier #lutherie #luthierworkshop #make_art_stayathome
24.01.2022 Tool of the Day Sketch #4 - my StewMac Fret radiusser held in my trusty old Record #52 bench vise. #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #stewmac #fretwork #recordvise #charcoaldrawing #negativespace #toolsilove #make_art_stayathome
24.01.2022 Charcoal study for my next Fort Lytton painting. #art #australianartists #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #fortlyttonnationalpark #fortlyttonhistoricalassociation #militaryarchitecture #makeartstayhome #donaldjwaters
23.01.2022 Also, Fred Williams! #art #australianart #australianartists #australianartist #come@cjhendry!
23.01.2022 Pencil and charcoal sketch for my sixth Fort Lytton piece. #art #australianart #australianartists #contemporaryart #contemporaryartists #militaryarchitecture #fortlyttonnationalpark #fortlyttonhistoricalassociation #makeartstayathome #
23.01.2022 Fort Lytton #6 may be finished, Ill leave it up for the next week and think it over. #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #fortlyttonnationalpark #fortlyttonhistoricalassociation #militaryarchitecture #theartlife #artstudio #penandwash
23.01.2022 Studies done, all ready and set out for my next pen and ink/watercolour wash in the Fort Lytton series. #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #fortlyttonnationalpark #fortlyttonhistoricalassociation #militaryarchitecture #ww1searchlight #make_art_stayathome
23.01.2022 Art Journal sketch for the day. This old Breville coffee machine has been sitting on the shelves in my workshop for years. The last time I used it was to make steam for a neck reset on a mandolin! Time for a clean and service and put it back into barista action. #coffeemachines #backyardbaristas #workshopcoffee #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #theartlife #artstudio
22.01.2022 Yay!! My order of all the goodies to finish these two mandolins arrived today from the USA. Both mandolins have been sold, the A5 should be finished by the end of October, the F5 by mid January. #luthier #lutherie #bluegrassmandolin #bluegrassmusicfestival
22.01.2022 Works In Progress - Fort Lytton #6. Ink (brush & pen), charcoal, coloured pencil on paper. This gun put still has the WW2 camouflage on the back wall which I have tried to get via ink wash. #art #australianart #australianartists #australuanartist #contemporaryart #penandink #fortlyttonnationalpark #fortlyttonhistoricalassociation #make_art_stayathome @ Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
21.01.2022 My next two reads - a couple of very diametrically opposite characters and artists. #chagall #townesvanzandt
21.01.2022 Fort Lytton #8 - pen and ink wash, 670 x 520, ready for signing and framing under glass. Onto the next two! #art #australianart #australianartists #fortlyttonnationalpark #fortlyttonhistoricalassociation #militaryarchitecture #make_art_stayathome
21.01.2022 A second Tool Of The Day sketch for today, as a catch-up. This is not a Luthiers tool, but an Artists tool - canvas stretching pliers. Hard on your hands, hard to use, and hard to sketch. #art #australianart #australianartists #australianartist #tooloftheday #make_art_stayathome #luthier #lutherie #theartlife #artstudio #luthierworkshop
19.01.2022 Tool of the Day Sketch (catchup). This little device is used to laminate the plastic bindings that are used on guitars, mandolins etc - usually three different thickness colors, run through and laminated with acetone. #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #theartlife #artstudio #luthier #lutherie #luthierworkshop #make_art_stayathome
19.01.2022 How good was Jeffrey Smart! #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #waitingforaboxdrop
19.01.2022 The feeling of starting a new art journal - a sketch and my daily morning page of writing. I have sketched our old lychee tree a few times now. #art #australianart #australianartist #artjournal #morningpages
18.01.2022 Covid-19 works in strange ways. I havent had as many enquiries on my mandolins as I have over the last few weeks, from as far away as Darwin! I have sold an A5 which is well on the way to being finished and I have got a wonderful F5 ready for someone and one on the workbench. Beat those Covid blues with a new mandolin! #bluegrassmusic #bluegrassmandolin#luthierie @ Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
18.01.2022 Works In Progress - Fort Lytton #5. What is it? #art #australianart #australianartist #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #militaryarchitecture #fortlyttonnationalpark #fortlyttonhistoricalassociation #worksinprogress #makeartstayathome
17.01.2022 Our lunch venue today at Newrybar - Harvest Restaurant
17.01.2022 Tool of the day sketch #2. My favourite chisel, I always keep this super sharp. #make_art_stayathome #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #luthierie #luthier #workshop #theartlife #artstudio
15.01.2022 Works In Progress - Fort Lytton #5. Getting close to resolving where the ghost soldier will appear. #art #australianart #australianartist #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #militaryarchitecture #architectureofaggression #fortlyttonnationalpark #fortlyttonhistoricalassociation #makeartstayathome
15.01.2022 Negative challenge issued by #sallyduhig - draw the space around a tool from your workshop. These minuscule thumb planes are hard enough to use, but drawing them is harder! #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists#ibexthumbplane #luthier #luthierie
14.01.2022 My illustrious art tutor, @sallyduhig_art , is a great believer in doing a quick sketch of what you are working on canvas, before starting the day. Its a great way to centre yourself on the next stage of a painting. At the moment, I am working on a dark and threatening sky above the searchlight tower at Fort Lytton. #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #fortlyttonnationalpark #fortlyttonhistoricalassociation #militaryarchitecture #make_art_stayathome
14.01.2022 Tool Of The Day sketch - my fret slot cleaner. This is used to clean out fret slots on a fretboard before installing frets. Sometimes I use this for other tasks, which I shouldnt do. Good tool. #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #theartlife #artstudio #lutherie #luthier #luthierworkshop #dailysketch #tooloftheday
13.01.2022 Tool Of The Day sketch - my thickness caliper, used to measure the graduated thickness of soundboards and backboards while carving them. Sketching today is very much therapy as last night our family had to say goodbye to our 19 year old Burmese cat, Bella. We loved her dearly. #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #luthier #luthierie #tooloftheday #make_art_stayathome #rainbowbridgecats
12.01.2022 Tool Of The Day Sketch - this little apparatus is what you use the shape and fit an ebony floating bridge to an archtop instrument such as a mandolin. Stick-on abrasive paper is affixed to the archtop and then the setup is pushed back and forward at the peak. #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #tooloftheday #sketching #luthier #lutherie #theartlife #artstudio #make_art_stayathome
11.01.2022 Tool of the Day Sketch #7 - you cant live without the King of the Workshop Jungle - a No. 7 Jointer plane. This one is British-made, 70 years old and so precise. #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #luthierie #luthier #luthierworkshop #artlife #theartlife #artstudio #jointerplane
10.01.2022 A new boutique brewery / bar / noshery in Northgate - might as well try it out
07.01.2022 Todays art journal sketch done this morning. The working corner of my studio. #art #australianartists #australianartist #artjournal #morningpages #sketchaday #artstudio #artlife
07.01.2022 Tool Of The Day sketch - my StewMac fret puller. Dont mess with this beast. #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #make_art_stayathome #theartlife #artstudio #luthier #lutherie #luthierworkshop #tooloftheday #fretwork
07.01.2022 Works In Progress on fifth Fort Lytton painting - texture paste only, no paint yet! #art #australianart #australianartist #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #fortlyttonnationalpark #fortlyttonhistoricalassociation #militaryarchitecture #makeartstayathome
07.01.2022 Fort Lytton #5 (Ill get around to naming these paintings soon). Acrylic, texture paste/Bondcrete/crushed roadbase on canvas. 900 x 600 #art #australianart #australianartist #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #fortlyttonnationalpark #fortlyttonhistoricalassociation #makeartstayathome #covid19stillexists
07.01.2022 Time to voice the air chamber on this A5 which I just strung up for the first time over the weekend. It is a real cannon, lots of warmth and timbre in its voice. I hope to have it in the hands of its owner during the next week so he can try out the neck and action before starting the staining and French Polishing. #luthier #lutherie #luthierworkshop #bluegrassmandolin #bluegrassmusic #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #make_mandolins_stayathome #make_art_stayathome
07.01.2022 A late one - just got it in as todays Tool of the Day Sketch #5. A Carbatec 30mm plug-cutter bit. #art #australianart #australianartists #australianartist #tooloftheday #plugcutter #luthierie #luthier #workshop #sketchaday
06.01.2022 Works In Progress on Fort Lytton #5. #art #australianart #australianartist #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #fortlyttonnationalpark #fortlyttonhistoricalassociation #militaryarchitecture #makeartstayathome
05.01.2022 I have never done pen and wash before, so I decided to do a small study for my next Fort Lytton piece as practice. Its an interesting media. #art #australianart #australianartists #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #militaryarchitecture #fortlyttonnationalpark #fortlyttonhistoricalassociation #makeartstayathome
04.01.2022 Tool of the Day Sketch - micro chisel #3. Starting to get down to the bottom of the interesting-looking luthier tools, but these micro chisels are really useful when building a mandolin, #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #theartlife #artstudio #luthier #lutherie #make_art_stayathome #tooloftheday #microchisels
03.01.2022 Fort Lytton #6 now laid out in pencil on watercolor paper ready for pen and wash. #art #australianartists #australianart#contemporaryart #contemporaryartists #militaryarchitecture #fortlyttonnationalpark #fortlyttonhistoricalassociation #makeartstayathome #penandwash
02.01.2022 For Sale - on behalf of the owner, who has had a change in life and music direction, this F5 which I finished on commission in 2016, would make an awesome addition to a professional muso’s aresenal, or an upgrade from a beginner mandolin. Send me a PM for price, specification and inclusions. It’s a beauty, begging for some use.
01.01.2022 A couple of charcoal sketches of the subject for the next Fort Lytton series painting. Something in between might work, and I’ll keep working on it. #art #australianart #australianartist #australianartists #fortlyttonnationalpark #fortlyttonhistoricalassociation #militaryarchitecture #make_art_stayathome
