Scampus

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Just a self-taught artist and trivia buff, aging fairly gracefully by the bay in Brisbane, Australia, along with his partner AnnMaree.

Painting of a bay basking in sunshine, with shrubs and trees in the foreground and mountains in the background, viewed from a wooden deck, with buildings here and there among the vegetation.
View out over a stream running across a dark beach to a sunlit stretch of water with hilly islands offshore, people playing along the edge of the water,and two sailing craft out on the sea.
Painting of a number of rocks and islands, many with forts in them, from the wall of St Malo, France, in the foreground, under a cloudy, blue-grey sky.
Painting of a black and white dog shown in various poses against an abstract blue-grey background.
View of Mt Ninderry's distinctive profile from the upper end of Pavonia Street, a steep street in northern Peregian Beach, Sunshine Coast, Queensland. The roadway is flanked on each side by colourful trees and shrubs.
Painting of a yellow house with a red tile roof, and green trees, lawns, hedges and shrubs around it, under a bright blue sky.
A painting in acrylics showing the figure of a woman walking for exercise on a dirt track through bushland and several tall, straight trees. In the background are open, grassy fields and cultivated land, more forested areas, and a rocky mountain peak on the high horizon.
Painting of two Eucalyptus gum nuts, side by side, in shades of green, purple, orange and red, on a white, unpainted canvas.
Painted view of a landscape with ridges and a mountain in the far distance overlooking low forest and grasslands and some trees and shrubs in the foreground. A section of patio tiles appears in the immediate foreground.
Painting in a realistic style of a white yacht with white sails on turquoise water with islands and other boats in the background, under a tall, blue sky with fluffy cumulus clouds.
Painting of the view up a cobblestone street with colourful, 2 to 3 storey buildings on both sides, and a green hillside wirh yellowing trees in the far background, all under a pale grey sky.
A painted view of a small bay surrounded by orange-brown rocks on two sides with a sandy beach in between, with tywo mountains on the other side of a larger bay in the background.
Painting of a bird with grey head and tail feathers and yellow feathers elsewhere, perched on a branch against an indeterminate background of greens and browns.
View from high up above a roadway looking down a golden beach towards coastal vegetation, then buildings and headlands with a mountain in the background at right, all under a cloudless, blue sky. An orange-red car drives down the road, away from the viewer.
Painting of a Moreton Bay Fig tree engulfing the railings and palings of a green, cast iron fence.
Painting done in acrylic paint and Posca paint pens of a house with steep rooves and a high garden wall, against a background of wispy white clouds in a bright blue sky.
Painting of a coastline with various rock stacks rising from a golden beach, and surf rolling intto the beach in the foreground. .
Painting done in paint pens of a stretch of an unknown river in southeastern Australia where the river describes an S bend, with yellow-orange cliffs on the left side and a lower, well wooded bank on the right side. In the distance a line of gum trees run along another ridge, under a blue sky with light coloured clouds.
Paint pen painting of a view of the Intramuros (walled town) of St Malo from a point along the beach to the east.
Painting of an orange-brown, long haired puppy in front of a wall of greenery.
Painted view of Mt Bogong in the Victorian high country from a nearby valley, with horses and cattle grazing in the foreground paddocks.
View of Mt Bogong, Victoria from paddocks in a valley below, with horses and cattle grazing, all painted in reverse colours from the natural colours, with blues in the foreground, purples in the middle distance, and the ridge of the mountain in pale greens.
Painting of the view down a grassy backyard through trees towards distant, misty paddocks and wooded ridges, with a water-filled dam in the middle distance.
Acrylic painting on canvas of a yellow brick house with a red tile roof, surrounded by green lawns, trees and hedges, under a pale purple sky.
Acrylic painting on canvas of a high set house with landscaped front gardens.
Acrylic painting of some of a Moreton Bay Fig's flying buttress roots, done in shades of purple and orange-brown.
Acrylic painting on wooden panel of one of the rock faces in Cataract Gorge at Launceston, Tasmania, done in various shades of purple, red-orange, and brown, plus some olive green water.
A large, yellow duck sails serenely out of the river mouth at Port Macquarie, as viewed from a nearby hilltop lookout.
Painting of a sun over a red-orange surf scene, with beach and rocks in the foreground.
Acrylic painting of the rock pinnacles near Wineglass Bay Lookout in Tasmania, with bird's eye view of the bay and the adjacent Hazards mountains below.
Painting of children's game character, Astro Bot, with supporting characters, against a blue gradient background.
Painting, using acrylic paints and Posca paint pens on an A3-sized canvas sheet, of a house in Wnnum, Queensland, Australia, which incorporates an unusual, two storey, chapel-like extension.
Astro Bot for Charlie G, acrylic paint on canvas, 41 cm high by 51 cm wide. Just something fun for a grandnephew, featuring one of his current favourite game characters, Astro Bot.
'Ah Mater', acrylic painting on canvas, 60 cm high x 50 cm wide. A fox cub contemplates its tired mother as she basks in the sun, eyes closed.
"Stormy beach" acrylics on canvas board, 41 cm high x 51 cm wide. My second one with a rainbow over a stormy sea, from a photo sent to me by a visitor to 2023's Noosa Open Studios.
"The Powerpuff Girls for Eleanor", acrylic paints and acrylic paint pens on stretched canvas, 41 cm high x 51 cm wide.