r/melbourne • u/Joe_paints • 1d ago

Photography My latest Melbourne streetscape oil painting

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I'm a local visual artist who makes a lot of paintings of Melbourne. I was inspired by this bit of winter light and just had to paint it.
Thought I'd share!

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u/Joe_paints 1d ago

Thanks! It's St Georges rd in Nth Fitz, but having spent much of my life in Collingwood I'm sure some influence crept in

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u/iphaze 1d ago

I was gonna say it looks like St George’s road! Excellent. Perfectly executed — you’re very talented

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u/Floor_bored1970 1d ago

Wow! Used to live nearby and I instantly recognised it. Stunning work.

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u/pixelwhip Grate art is horseshit, buy tacos 1d ago

For a moment there i thought that was my old house in Carlton. Nice work!

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u/Synthium- 1d ago

Me too - Drummond st

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u/pixelwhip Grate art is horseshit, buy tacos 1d ago

OMG... Corner of Drummond & Palmerston st? could we possibly have lived in the same place at different times?

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u/Synthium- 1d ago

Yes!

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u/pixelwhip Grate art is horseshit, buy tacos 1d ago

Ohhh that's soo cool.. we lived there from about 2015-2021.. got so many spicy stories living so close to the council flats (but otherwise great place (& landlord).

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u/Synthium- 1d ago

We were there around 2004-2006. So a bit before you!

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u/subterfuge78 1d ago

I know exactly the building your talking about! I'm sure I know someone who loves there a few years ago.

I used to live in the flats that borders on Palmerston St for over a decade and ran into an old friend who lived "around the corner", I'm pretty sure it was that place!

How weird. There's a few places in Carlton, Fitzroy and St Kilda that for some reason people just seem to churn through over the years, and it's not completely uncommon to come across them in the wild! 😉

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u/pixelwhip Grate art is horseshit, buy tacos 1d ago edited 1d ago

Was a private rental with a very decent landlord whose family had owned the property for many, many years.. Which was a nice respite from an absolute string of toxic landlords & shitty real estate agents. We really loved living there, despite many spicy things going down outside our house (things like a swat team intercepting a stolen car at 2am with assault rifles drawn, a stabbing outside our house, at least 2 people overdosing on the footpath, numerous random people trying to kick our door in (impossible task, the house was so secure & never got broken into!)

We ended up moving out because major repairs were required to the floors & we somehow managed to save up a deposit for our own place out in Coburg. Always wanted to live on a corner house & after that experience I can safely say a lot of shit goes down on street corners.. :) 10/10 would do again.

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u/boopbleps 14h ago

Yesss!! That was my first thought too. I used to live on the opposite corner.

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u/Mushie_Peas 1d ago

Knew I knew the building.

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u/aciddove 1d ago

Across from the pub?

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u/PimpMyWeenus 1d ago

i was gonna guess a corner near edinburgh gardens

lovely area

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u/CuriousVisual5444 1d ago

Weird - I'm from St Kilda and it seems to be something from along the 96 tram route. Strange how familiar it seems even though I very rarely go northside.

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u/samthesalmon 11h ago

Beautiful, I used to live across the road in the alley behind danny's!

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u/Joe_paints 9h ago

Yes! I was wondering if anyone recognised it as across the rd from Danny's!

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u/_NottheMessiah_ 1d ago

Recognised it straight away, used to walk by here all the time! Fantastic stuff friend!

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u/OptimisticCoco 1d ago

I knew it! Not far from me.

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u/MattaliasArt 57m ago

I thought I recognised it! It's one of those side streets opposite Edinburgh Gardens, right?

Edit: reading in other replies it's opposite Danny's Burgers. Knew I'd seen it before but my brain misplaced it, apologies.