That time I took the polar bear for a walk …
May 30, 2020
Painted this a long time ago and found it in the toolbox whilst looking for a hacksaw blade. Organised, that’s me.
Month: May 2020
Ice cream parlour
May 23, 2020
Why are ice cream parlours called parlours, and milk bars are bars?
This is our local ice cream parlour, lit up on a freezing night when no one in their right mind would want ice cream.
A Popeye for our times
May 17, 2020
A 51 year old child
May 15, 2020
A quick painting of a happy money box from 1969. 51 years old and not a single grey hair.
Salute to an unparalleled serpent
May 10, 2020
Unusually for a head of state, Saddam Hussein retained a poet in residence. It is very difficult to make the words ‘unparalleled serpent’ scan in a poem, but he managed it when describing Madeleine Albright, the US secretary of state.
Madeleine Albright was known for wearing ‘big honker brooches’ on diplomatic missions. This is a quick impression of a bee brooch she wore when wrangling with Yasser Arafat.
Lily on a dustbin
May 3, 2020
Lotuses almost overdo symbolism. This is a delicate lotus raft, thriving on the chip wrappers, dead rats and duck mess in the lotus pond in the Melbourne Botanical Gardens.
Phil McAloon's paintings 