Outside Dunny

Artist: Virginia McGowan
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Outside Dunny

I was looking at
JimCaldwells“
photo in his files of an outhouse [toilet ]we Aussies mentioned we [impolitely ]called them Dunnies I just did a watercolour sketch to go with the words..

OUTSIDE DUNNY

I have to go

Defiantly have to

Outside in the black

Down the ramp that runs from the back door from the house.

The light shines to the end of the ramp, after that, blackness

I can make out the white narrow concrete path

Past the shed, running now, past the doorway with the dark opening, maybe in there?

Then the wood pile, maybe it’s lurking there, maybe in the shed

Maybe in the dunny, it’s dark

I know it’s clean, no spiders are allowed to live here

She sees to that, cleanliness is most important

Not the eyes of a frightened child.

Watercolour on Arches A4 size medium

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cougarfan

Beautiful Piece Of Work Hun:)
Virginia McGowan replied

thanks Trena much appreciated.
Enivea

Yay!! Good to match your art up with your words Gini, well done!! Get you doing books yet!!
Virginia McGowan replied

I found the pic I started a while back to go with the words having a clean out or up ,so decided to finish some .haha books!
JennyDean

nice work to match the words Gini :)
Virginia McGowan replied

thanks Jenny, just playing about with watercolours nice and clean after oils
Carol Berliner

Greeeat work and yeah brings back a few memories!!
Virginia McGowan replied

thanks Carol,nice of you to come and look .
Marilyn Harris

Good one Gini! Sure can relate to this! xo :o)
Virginia McGowan replied

Hi Blossom… oh yes and we had to be careful on ‘dunnyman’ days someone had to keep watch ! Just in case
Marilyn Harris

lol!!Remember it well! The house we bought in Sydney back in ‘79 was still using this service!! Yes, the first thing we did was to get the sewer on!! lol!!
reflector

A classic little bit of writing and a superb abstract painting Ginny ! I love the brush work and the colour combo !
Virginia McGowan replied

thanks james I have the writing on in the other section from a while back but didn’t finish the sketch…
JacquiK

Fantastic painting Ginny.
Virginia McGowan replied

thanks Jacqui. tried to do it from memory from the back yard of my youth .I have a few photos but not of the Loo [understandably LOL]
MarianaEwa

Beautiful painting and words Ginny.
Virginia McGowan replied

oh thsnks so muh Mariana.. (((()))
barnsis

Excellent, all different tones and shapes,
Virginia McGowan replied

thanks Byron …
debsphotos

Fantastic work Gini!!! Boy..your good!!! Would love to be able to paint!!LOL..*-)
Virginia McGowan replied

Hi Deb so many thankyou’s lovely of you to comment, well just have a go draw out a shape and colour it in use something in front of you eg a vase or bottle, put a light next to it to get the shape and shadows to make it sit down nicely on the table or whatever…….[don’t try imagination as it’s too hard and you’ll get discouraged ]well that’s the way I was shown first up and it is very simple , Use a soft pencil too …..
Rosalie Scanlon

Wonderful work Ginny, brings back memories of my fathers camp in Vermont many years ago.
Virginia McGowan replied

thanks for commenting Rosalie .the one thing I love about modern living apart from washing machines,are the toilets inside the house!
John14

Yes had one of them growing up in the territory..so many stories they could tell loveoly work
Virginia McGowan replied

Not long since Brisbane was sewered either. The septics here were all made from tee trees and tended to sink in after heavy rain…not much fun backyards with a big suspicious looking hollow.
Shylie Edwards

LOVE LOVE IT…great ‘scene’!!! HA HA!!
Virginia McGowan replied

hahaha glad of that Shylie :-)))))))))
Arrowman

A great shot, you should be totally proud !! Take a Bow – Colin
Virginia McGowan replied

wow thanks Arrowman, nice of you to comment so beautifully , I am really chuffed!! (()) gini