Inside with Pencils

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INSIDE WITH PENCILS - ELAINE HABY
7th July - 29th July, 2007

Opening, Saturday 7th July, 2-4pm

Gallery hours Wed-Sun 12noon-5pm

IMP
above Greville St Bookstore
145 Greville Street, Prahran

Please come along, you are all invited!

Made to order - a recent icon commission

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Egg tempura & gold leaf on MDF
14X18.5 cm

A recent commission, an icon portrait... all done and dusted.

(Find other recent commissions here.)

Interior landscapes (details of)

Those long promised photos from Interior landscapes... here they are. A small, detailed glimpse at the work as it hung on the wall.









So many canvases, so many chairs, so many vases... and lots of red and white stripes - everywhere. Red and white on both my work and Mary's.

A few more? Okay... I'll happily oblige. More photos taken just moments before the exhibition was dismantled. Before canvases sold went to new homes, and those unsold were wrapped up and packed in the car.



(With MG's two canvases above and my two below.)






(With MG's 'Fifties Fab' to the left.)

Back to the drawing board... literally.

(See a little more here.)

Interior landscapes - setting up

Milly and some chairs conversing, Spanish onions, peaches and various striped rugs.


Milly, the photogenic Brunswick Street Gallery cat, with Mary's work.


Mary's 'Red & White Stripes', 18" X 48" (acrylic on canvas) and 'Red & Ribbons', 18" X 48" (acrylic and mixed media on canvas)... almost in place on the gallery wall.


'High expectations', 32" X 32" (oil and pencil on acrylic primed linen), rests against the wall ready to be hung alongside Mary's 'Fifties Fab', 36" X 36" (acrylic on canvas).


A wall of eight 20" X 20" canvases receive the required nudge with a metal ruler.

From left to right, top to bottom:
'Green apples for breakfast'
'Silent meal'
'Chairs conversing'
'Blue striped rug'
'Don't sit there'
'Mexican chair with Spanish onions'
'Kangaroo chair and Spanish onions'
'Waiting peacefully'

More photos to follow sooner than later.

Final preparations

High expectations, oil & pencil on acrylic primed linen, 32"x32", 2007. (detail)


A quiet moment, oil & pencil on acrylic primed linen, 32"x32", 2007. (detail)

Final preparations have been done for set up on Friday. Wires and hooks are in place on the reverse side and a list of works has been compiled and all the while Stella did this:

A sneeze, a panda & much to do...

(Via You Tube, again.)

A baby panda sneeze; an old YouTube favourite is needed as I work on the finishing touches of my large paintings for Interior Landscapes. I've just over a week until set up.

A painting preview soon...