Acrylics on board, 20 x 15 cm:
Thursday 13 July 2023
Sunday 9 July 2023
Saturday 8 July 2023
Wednesday 28 June 2023
Aloes at the corner
Acrylics on board, 30 x 20 cm:
Monday 26 June 2023
Aloes and lavender
Acrylics on board, 20 x 15 cm:
Thursday 15 June 2023
Monday 5 June 2023
Cape turtle dove
Acrylics on board, 20 x 15 cm:
Friday 2 June 2023
Die Krap en die Kraanvoƫl
An English version of this story can be read here.
Hierdie is die Afrikaanse weergawe van The Crab and the Crane, die vyfde in 'n reeks volksverhale uit Afrika. Indie u die storie geniet, oorweeg om 'n kopie te koop - beide 'n e-boek en gedrukte weergawe is beskikbaar.
Thursday 1 June 2023
Winter weeds, highveld
Acrylics on board, 20 x 15 cm:
Most people tell me they find highveld winters depressing. Me, I love the subdued earth tones, the scraggly weeds and puffy seed heads, the hint of ice in the evening breeze.
Thursday 27 April 2023
Portrait study
Paul Kruger. Acrylics on board, 15 x 10 cm:
Sunday 23 April 2023
Summer landscape, highveld
Acrylics on board, 15 x 20 cm:
With good summer rains, which by no means happens every summer, the highveld region becomes as green as Ireland. Beautiful as it is, it then becomes a horror to paint - there is no more difficult color to work with in a landscape than green!
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Sunday 16 April 2023
Off the R42 near Bronkhorstspruit
Acrylics on board, 15 x 20 cm:
Friday 31 March 2023
Tuesday 21 March 2023
Digital paintings
After years as artistic Luddite, I finally caved in, downloaded Krita and tried some digital paintings:
Wednesday 15 February 2023
Various bits and pieces
At least for the moment, I have decided to tone down all efforts at producing or selling marketable work. It's much more fun doing whatever I feel like, and so, I have been doing some of that, mostly in the form of pencil or ballpoint pen sketches of various things - whatever struck me as visually interesting.
I have also rediscovered the joys of working from direct observation rather than reference photos. Not to mention, in the absence of any pressure to produce stuff I can sell, working with the cheapest of materials. These are all smallish sketches on common old printer paper.
Of South Africa's once impressive rail system, preciously little is left nowadays. Sad, perhaps, but it also resulted in lots of derelict buildings, a subject which I have always found very enticing for both photography and art. Someone posted a photo of one such slowly disintegrating station building on Twitter, and I made a sketch of it, in ballpoint pen:
Sunday 29 January 2023
Thursday 19 January 2023
Saturday 7 January 2023
Wednesday 4 January 2023
Sunday 1 January 2023
Roses at the cottage
Acrylics on board, 15 x 20 cm: