Garage art: paintings, surfboards and even a sculpture by Norval Watson. Featuring the Banzai Pipeline, a surfboard I made over 50 years ago, Backdoors (the jewel of the desert),Belonjil, the Super bank, the Carpark nightclub, a clutch of pawn shop special guitars, The Rooster, my old dirt jump bike, The Red Sea, Save the Whales, White Fluffy Clouds , (featuring Ricky Lee Jones), Picasso’s Pyrenean hideaway, Empire, Volcano, an esoteric astrological symbol and a bag of ducks. Oils, acrylics, mixed media. #contemporaryart #surfart #environmentalart #garageart
how to paint BLUE SKY?
Blue sky tutorial:
1 – get some paint
2 – make sure it’s blue
3 – go for it!
can you make art BLINDFOLD?
Can you make art blindfold? Can you make art freehand? Can you make art with a grid of little squares? Can you make art with a projector? Can you make art with … VR??? #quest3 #contemporaryart #stencilvr
Best Friends Forever!
BFF. Another bottle of absinthe, sil vous plait!
That’s not a genuine Van Gogh by the way, that is me with my painting “Vincent: the Black Shadow”
#vincentvangogh #portraitmood #contemporaryart
Me, myself and my art
Me myself and my art. Top: with “Coolangatta”, c. 97. A very popular print at that time, original later sold to the late Johnny Moon.
Below: painting “Long Shadow Time” on the balcony at Cavanbah Street, 1995. That was the first house I lived in in Byron Bay after five months in a tent at Broken Head caravan park, lighthouse view, a few steps from the ocean, the wonderful caretakers the Donovans looked after my tent when I went up the Gold Coast a couple of days a week to build surfboards.
That painting of Whites Beach was sold to a dentist from the south coast by a gentleman called Jonathan who had a great little gallery called Eclectic Selection behind the Great Northern Hotel where Aldi now stands.
A few limited edition prints of that one were also sold but the problem with the prints is that you end up with a situation where large digital files of your work get sold and transferred along with the business that printed them and who knows what happens after that.
Photos by Peter Moore , thanks mate 👏

Workshop Diary
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Replaced dud tube in Vox Tonelab LE
followed this YT tut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgff2AccVMc



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Norval on 3RPP
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Radio Port Phillip’s art show, “Arts About”, interviewed Norval Watson in 2013. A five minute chat about art, disability, and music, with presenters Sally Baillieu, Peter Swan, John Baird, and Donna Magree. Broadcast Sunday Oct 6, 2013, on 3RPP.
Tronics
Unwell: a song cycle

“Unwell”
Thirteen songs about getting hurt and getting better.
Unwell: The Brooklyn Mix, 47-minute monolithic pre-master MP3, streaming now on Soundcloud.
http://soundcloud.com/norv/unwell-1
Download available and comments welcome.






