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2023 Calendars! Now Available

9/11/2022

Yippee! It's done.

©VincentCavanagh 2022

That's right folks! After a month's worth of inking and going cross-eyed at various reference photographs, my 2023 Calendar: WYD Lisbon Fundraising edition is now available to buy. Contact can be made via Email or Facebook Messenger.

Pricings for the calendar are as follows:

Please be aware that the above prices are only for postage within Australia.

If there is any international interest, we will arrange Air Mail costs appropriately.

Phoenix 548 at Royal National Park ©VincentCavanagh 2022

R1 2001 opposite Railway Square Waiting Shed ©VincentCavanagh 2022

And in other news, my father and I spent an enjoyable day out today at the Sydney Tramway Museum in Loftus.

We rode on an Ex-Brisbane Tramway's Four Motor Phoenix tram 548 along with a contingent of retirees also on a day out. Sydney Tramway R1 2001 was otherwise engaged ferrying two contingents of local school children up and down the line.

So, until further news, toodle–oo!

~ Vincent Cavanagh, 9 November 2022.

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And With Your Spirit

18/5/2022

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So last fortnight I did something for the first time that I thought I would never do: I made a #MayThe4th cartoon, featuring Bishop Stumbers.

Yeah, I don’t think there are that many Vulcans in Star Wars somehow. (Wry smile.)

It’s been a long time since I’d last put a physical pen to paper. It was also nice that it was a fairly simply concept to draw.
For the red accent I used a Copic marker, and I think it helped to tie the whole picture together. I also adjusted the contrast of the image on my computer before it was read to share.

Yesterday (17 May 2022) I finally got around to editing and uploading to my YouTube Channel the videos I took of the ride on the Puffing Billy Railway that my father and I took on our family holiday back in March 2019. It’s of the return journey from Gembrook to Belgrave in the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne. Enjoy.

So, until next time, stay safe and God Bless.

~ Vincent Cavanagh, 18 May 2022.

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All Quiet on the Great Western Front

20/4/2022

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I have painted in a while, but I did thankfully do a small "just for fun" painting on Good Friday (15 April 2022).
It's little scene, set in either the early hours of the morning or before dusk, containing a generic-looking Great Western Railway Pannier Tank engine opposite a British Railways Class 08 Diesel shunter that appears to be having bit of trouble starting up. Note the fireworks coming out the top of it.

The basis for this picture was not Thomas the Tank Engine; rather it was because of two OO gauge locomotives that we own: a GWR Pannier and a BR Green 08.

For something different I used a "earth tone" palette of colours consisting mostly of Yellow Ochre, English Red and Sepia, with a bit of Ivory Black added here and there.

God bless to you all and Happy Easter.
He is Risen! Alleluia!

~ Vincent Cavanagh, 20 April 2022.

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