I’m holding an exhibition of landscape oil paintings at Comber Street Studios, 5 Comber Street, Paddington NSW 2021, Australia. The show opens at 6pm on Friday 31 March 2023 and runs for just three days […]
I’m holding an exhibition of landscape oil paintings at Comber Street Studios, 5 Comber Street, Paddington NSW 2021, Australia. The show opens at 6pm on Friday 31 March 2023 and runs for just three days […]
I recently found these preliminary drawings I did for the 2014 Landscape oil painting exhibition. They were quick sketches to work out the shape of the landscape and then some border lines were added to […]
This was an exercise from a Maitland Graves colour and design book to paint up a page that shows the effect of the differing surrounding colour or tone on the colour in the centre that […]
This matrix is from an early colour and design session and shows the result of mixing these six main colours with each other to get these 15 secondary colours. It guess it would have been […]
This self portrait was produced in 1995 using charcoal and graphite on paper. It is part of a series of four works. I was working quickly with the paper laid directly on a lino’ tiled […]
This self portrait was produced in 1995 using charcoal and graphite on paper. It is part of a series of four works. 1 2 3 4
This self portrait was produced in 1995 using charcoal and graphite on paper. It is part of a series of four works. 1 2 3 4
This self portrait was produced in 1995 using charcoal and graphite on paper. It’s from a series of four works and was sold at an exhibition in 1996. 1 2 3 4 The frames for […]
I was looking at an old Colour and Design work-book of mine from the mid ’80s and found this page on Tonal Scale and Value Keys. Still good theory and not a bad little painting exercise […]
These two drawings titled Despondent Chimp’ 1 and 2 are from 1996. They are produced with charcoal and coloured chalk on paper. The frames are made with beautiful recycled timber rescued from an old wharf […]
This photographic proof sheet was found on a Sydney street by a friend. It’s clearly Bob Dylan and Tom Petty but I’ve no idea who the photographer is, when it dates from or if it’s […]
I have just released an updated version of this guychapman.net web site that moves all the content to run on a WordPress installation. When the site was first created in 2006 it was all built as […]
This exhibition was titled The New Zealand Hills and had a large number of oil paintings that were just 200mm square but framed in large, ornate gold profiles. Many of the works were sold at the […]
The Ukelles are another fun band based around the Ukulele but with a good collection of other instruments and musicians. I’ve been playing Violin and Mandolin with them for some time now, so much fun.
The big men of little music are renowned as one of Australia’s most entertaining ukulele ensembles. This quirky eight piece band boasts numerous ukulele players, jazz guitar, double bass, drums, violin, mandolin and an array of […]
I’m pleased to say that I have an opportunity to exhibit some of my recent oil paintings from the 2013 and 2014 shows, and also some new works not yet exhibited, at the Art2Muse Gallery […]
I just wanted to say a big thanks to everyone who was able to make it to the opening, it was a fun night and there are some great photos on Facebook of the opening. […]
Thought Lines 2014 Oil on Canvas 914 x 660 mm
Spiccato Hills in Six-Eight 2014 Oil on Canvas 660 x 660 mm
Yellow Reverie 2014 Oil on Canvas 1219 x 914 mm
Road Trip 3 2014 Oil on Canvas 200 x 200 mm
Looking Down at Emerald Bay 2014 Oil on Canvas 660 x 660 mm
Back Paddocks 2014 Oil on Canvas 914 x 660 mm
In Time, I Recall 2014 Oil on Canvas 1219 x 914 mm
Road Trip 1 2014 Oil on Canvas 200 x 200 mm
Road Trip 6 2014 Oil on Canvas 200 x 200 mm
Beyond the Blue Pines 2 2014 Oil on Canvas 660 x 660 mm
Unfamiliar Territory 2014 Oil on Canvas 1219 x 914 mm
Ground Swell 2014 Oil on Canvas 914 x 660 mm
Spiccato Hills in Seven-Eight 2014 Oil on Canvas 660 x 660 mm
Equilibrium 2014 Oil on Canvas 1219 x 914 mm
Arrival 2014 Oil on Canvas 660 x 660 mm
Road Trip 2 2014 Oil on Canvas 200 x 200 mm
Road Trip 4 2014 Oil on Canvas 200 x 200 mm
Ruahine Drift 2014 Oil on Canvas 914 x 660 mm
Beyond the Blue Pines 2014 Oil on Canvas 660 x 660 mm
A quick reminder that my exhibition opens at 6pm on Tuesday next week! That’s 6pm, Tuesday 25 Feb At the Queen St Gallery 28 Queen Street Woollahra I’m really pleased to confirm that Sheona White, […]
Road Trip 5 2014 Oil on Canvas 200 x 200 mm
I’m having another exhibition of landscape oil paintings at the Queen St Gallery in Woollahra. The show opens at 6pm on Tuesday 25 February 2014 and I’d love to see you there. Sheona White, Head […]
I’m thrilled to say my new painting titled Field Colour has been selected, from over 1200 works from around the world, as a finalist in the 2013 Fleurieu Art Prize. The winner of the $60,000 […]
I have just sent out the first email from the new guychapman.net email list. I’ll only be sending occasional updates with exhibition dates or information on new art work. If you know someone who is […]
Here’s a quick guide to some oil painting principles – basic stuff that most painters have internalised but it can be good to go back to the basics if you get stuck… Lean to Fat […]
One of the two landscape works exhibited in the d’Arcy Doyle Art Awards.
Exhibition of Landscape Oil Paintings by Guy Chapman Opening 6-8pm on Tuesday 19 February 2013 at Queen Street Gallery, Woollahra It is a great honour to have the highly respected Indigenous elder Charles ‘Chicka’ Madden […]
This oil painting was produced in 2013 on 30 canvas panels each 200mm square. The work is a continuation of the landscape theme in the 2013 exhibition
I’m having an exhibition of new landscape paintings at the Queen Street gallery in Woollahra. Opening 6-8pm on Tuesday 19 February 2013 These are small oil paintings based on the New Zealand hills. They range […]
Strings is a short film by Guy Chapman that won the graduating students award for Best Film at City Art Institute in 1991. The work-print was screened at the graduating exhibition and after graduating received […]
2013-06-14 Update: I have recently updated the web site and changed the domain name from ‘throwdownyourguns.com’ to ‘guychapman.net’ so the sentiment of this post still applies but the name has changed. A few people have […]
With five-piece rockin’ band! The Bob Dylan Revue musically captures the essential story of Dylan’s prolific and creative life. It will entertain, inform and move even the purest of Bobcat fans. The Show The five-piece […]
The Tenderhooks band was an originals outfit fronted by Douglass Bishop, singer songwriter (Douglass is in the middle in the image above between Guy Chapman at the front and T-Rev Champion). We played original music around […]
Twang was an originals band from Sydney, Australia. They played all over town in the ’80s and ’90s and recorded an EP in 1997 titled Highly Strung And Ready To Twang that is available on […]
The Dullards got up to all sorts of things… busking, fringe club, kings cross new years eve stripper, harold park, name changes, strawberry hills, punters club in Melbourne, recordings to convert… but for now, here’s […]
Small Talk was a contemporary acoustic music show that Douglass Bishop of Tenderhooksmusic held every second Sunday afternoon at a couple of different pubs in Sydney back around 2002-2003. The Clare Hotel, 20 Broadway, Ultimo […]
A covers band that used to play Rock classics from the ’60s & ’70s. The Hotdogs captured the sound of a period when music was raw and real. The five-piece band fronted by Douglass Bishop had […]
A quick snap of the back-end of the Queen Elizabeth 2 at Circular Quay today (8 March 2012). They say it’s the largest ship ever to have docked at that terminal and about 10 meters […]
The Bagel House was a great Sydney cafe, near Taylor square, I played some jazz there in the ’80s with friends in an outfit called Jazabilly, or some times The Dullards. I wonder what became […]
I caught this by chance the other day heading over the Sydney Harbour Bridge into the city. It’s the cover image of Queen of Dreams by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni aligned with a train passenger. It […]
An undated – clipping from a New Zealand newspaper, some time in the early ’80s reads… Rock band really did Brussells [sic] A concert on October 28 by the Irish new wave band U2 in […]
I saved this image years ago from a New Zealand news paper – a great set of characters. The text reads: Mrs Iris Strickland – one of the few voices supporting the MP for Hastings, […]
It has – there’s not a bloody original thought left in the world. Just try and come up with a catchy name for a web-site. Someone has always been there first. Pricks! When I was […]
She came to stay for a weekend break from the pet shop… They had lovingly pumped her full of so much food, she spent the next twenty-four hours pissing and shitting everywhere. She was the […]
There’s a whole history to this alphabet and various different versions of it. It’s all out there on the web if you are interested in that. I’ve just put this up here ’cause I keep […]
The Bob Dylan Revue are playing again this week in Sydney. Being a Dylan fan from his late teens, Douglass is a great choice to play the roll of Bob Dylan. There is an uncanny […]
Global nuclear disarmament would be nice, I’d be happy about that, but what can you do? Various people have had a crack at it over the years but they all seem to loose traction after time. […]
A while back I made a decision to stay away from using any Flash in building this web site… I am deliberately avoiding the use of Flash. The misuse of flash in web sites is […]
I recently upgraded to the latest version of NetNewsWire for the iPhone. Like many out there, I had been eagerly awaiting the new version 2.0 that would sync with Google Reader. Having my desktop feeds […]
Gwitha Mclean often painted these whimsical little landscapes in watercolour as she traveled around the country. She lived in the beautiful area of Porangahau in the North Island of New Zealand. Porangahau was untouched for many […]
Well on the first night our little arty theatre show opened at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in March 1990, the first couple of rows were filled with leather-men waiting to see the fist-fucking show. We […]
Waking up today and seeing the grey, overcast sky reminds me of working on the farm. The feeling of what the day would be like out in the the weather was tangible. What the wet […]
In 1994 Harlos Productions presented Felix Mitterer’s play Siberia at the Lookout Theatre in Woollahara. The production was nominated for the Sydney Critic’s Circle Award. The Lookout theatre has gone now. I was asked to produce […]
Apple have updated Mac OS X in all sorts of great ways in their latest Snow Leopard update 10.6 but here’s a backward step – in fact a backward step from what was a pretty […]
Martin Luther was a bit of a prick really, I never did like having him over to stay. He was so fucking impatient, always banging on the bathroom door while I was trying to back-one-out […]
This puzzle was hours of fun as a kid. It was just a box of wooden blocks with pictures stuck on each side. There was a bus, car, plane, ship, steam train and a second […]
A few life tips for the risk-averse, things I have picked up along the way that you may find useful: Assume all car drivers want to kill you when you ride a motorbike A tractor […]
Okay, finally I think apple have caught up with themselves with their new iPhone. I may have to officially retire the Newton. Although I’ll be fully convinced when I can use a WiMAX iPhone on […]
Tenderhooksmusic says “There’s certainly enough room in this town for both acts.” SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA JULY 29, 2007 Tenderhooksmusic today announced that after extensive negotiations, a tour schedule has been agreed that will accommodate both Bob […]
Here’s another one from a while ago. 1989, The Triffids at the Enmore theatre in Newtown, Sydney, Australia. Standing room only, poor sound but I guess that’s the deal with the real thing.
Here’s an oldie. The last time I saw Bob Dylan in concert was in 1986 in Sydney Australia. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers were support. It was great, but hell that’s a while ago now. […]
I just mixed up another batch of the medium I use for oil painting. I seem to always loose or forget the recipe so I decided to store it here for safe keeping. This is […]
This sculpture was welded up from old bicycles and figures cut from sheet metal with the oxy acetylene torch. It was fun, you could ride it like a bike and the head-piece would rotate in […]
This image of El Greco’s (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) painting of Saint Martin and the Beggar, comes from an old 1954 Collins Fontana book I worked from. The original painting is in the National Gallery of Art, […]
This colour wheel is based on the Albert Munsell Colour System that has 100 steps, with the primary colours being Red, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple. It was an early Colour and Design exercise to […]
Constant Permeke was a painter who created some fantastic, bold and chunky works such as The Sower 1933 shown here. Constant worked a lot in this chunky style… he was a fairly solid chap himself. He […]
I’ve got the dance floor from Strictly Ballroom up on eBay for sale. The floor used to be installed in my studio years ago but it’s been in storage for years and I think it’s […]
I had a great floor in my art studio for a while. After working on Baz Luhrmann’s 1992 film Strictly Ballroom, I inherited the dance floor from the film set. I rented a truck, carted […]
The good people at Ilisys who host the throwdownyourguns.com site just announced they are “the first hosting company in Australia to become carbon neutral”. Ilisys said “By running our headquarters and data centre on 100% […]
Akaroa Hills – A series of sketches using charcoal, pencil and graphite on paper. Size is around 80mm square. 31/12/2006 Akaroa, New Zealand.
Eugene knocked this self portrait together in about 1837. A fine piece of work. Oil on canvas. I think it’s in the Louvre but don’t quote me on that. His full name was Ferdinand Victor […]
The full title of this oil painting is… The Beggar Feeling Awkwardly Clad in Saint Martin’s Famous Cloak. It has to do with some Latin words – cappa, capella, cappella, capellani – the tendency humans […]
This painting is titled Sowers and is from 1991. It was sold at an exhibition a while later. It was about Reagan and Gaddafi, who were in power at the time, and their insane behaviour […]
…elsewhere others were having their fun too; Woodstock was happening, the Americans invaded the moon and Penthouse was launched. I also seem to remember Popes dying and important Americans being shot. It was worrying but it […]
Since establishment of the web site, I have been keeping a keen eye on Google’s index to see if and when the site gets picked up, so I’d like to give a big welcome to […]
The Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 with the Newton Keyboard attached. Perhaps Apple will catch up with themselves one day soon. I used this set up extensively for some while for email, calendar and to-do items. […]
Throwdownyourguns Shows Scant Regard for Testing Media Release Throwdownyourguns Shows Scant Regard for Testing SYDNEY, Australia—April 04, 2006—Throwdownyourguns today announced that they were sick of waiting to get all the content finished before launching their […]
Well, not just yet… I’m gonna try to keep this thing in its holster until it’s really needed.
Lucas, above, painted this fine portrait of Martin Luther. He was a bit obsessed with painting Martin and his wife. Painters can get a bit obsessive like that though.
I was flicking through Mr Grubber’s fine RSS feed this morning (as you do) and found my way to the new song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – I Should Have Known It. I agree […]
“A supermarket of art on the theme of love and compassion, commencing on valentines day February 14, 1997. A benefit for the AIDS Trust of Australia.” I had several of these quick drawings in this […]
Saint Martin, let’s call him Pony Boy, just couldn’t leave that Beggar alone. This is an oil painting triptych, with the Beggar, before and after Mr Martin has so kindly chopped off and handed out part […]
A solo exhibition of several large oil paintings at the Illawarra Hotel, NSW in 1996.