Chris Osborne Art

I wish that I had looked inside this building because It had something wonderful to show.

The Village is having a radio play under the stars in a few days time so I'm looking forward to seeing the performance and what the village looks like after dark.

Out of the whole building I really like the roof the most because of the transformation from the watercolour to adding the Tombo brush pens.

Completely dismantled, early 2000 the project a complete restoration by a group of dedicated enthusiastic people over a few years. Here's my sketch of the Durant 1929.

When I was a kid I didn't want to be a fire fighter I wanted to be a train driver, I guess that didn't work out either. What did you want...

I had the tools, the online training and the enthusiasm to start something new, so here is my interpretation of Ian Fennelly urban sketching at the Miles Historical Village.

The good side to the bad weather was, we had some amazing sunsets and the dams were showing some fantastic reflections. The rainbow reflection was just incredible and I have never...

I met some amazing people along the way and we shared some incredible stories, while walking through some stunning scenery.

About a month ago I was photographing birds in the backyard with my 600mm lens and I spotted a grey butcherbird, which seemed to find a bit of peanut butter that...

I always get excited when new prints arrive in the post and I must say that Springwood Printing did a fabulous job on these latest artworks.

This wave of fog got caught in the thousands of spiderwebs in a range of sizes that were hanging off dead grass and shrubs.

One of my favourite animals at the zoo, and most difficult to photograph it seems is the emu. They are always on the move and never seem to be looking at...

Wuruma dam was a great place to relax and do a spot of photograph, rich in birdlife and a few mobs of kangaroos and pretty faced wallabies.

This is the second platypus I have painted in the last few month, the last painting I gave away as a gift to Abigail and her bf a nice young couple...

I was playing around with numbers the other day and discovered that this painting was going to be my 200th painting since I started painting again back in September 2019

I have painted a few landscapes from the camino and this time I wanted to paint a iconic part of it. The camino marker, something you're always on the look out...

So I was down by the dam looking for some waterbirds to photograph and found a family of magpies and a rather amusing juvenile sitting on a wooden seat, so here...

Brian took one look at my painting and said all he can see is Pennywise the clown from a Stephen King Novel, IT. The white parts are the face and all...

I decided on a pose where the swan definitely thought I was up to something and had some trust issues. I guess it was just protecting its child from paparazzi with...

The adult black swan was seen gliding around the surface using its long neck to reach down and filter through the weeds growing on the bottom of the pond.