Wednesday, 24 August 2022

Bunch of mini-paintings

 All 65 x 90 mm, acrylics on Masonite, except the donkey, which is in oil:

Secretary bird, SOLD

Busy bee

Donkey profile

Pug portrait




Friday, 19 August 2022

Cape buffalo

 Cape buffalo. Acrylics on Masonite, 15 x 20 cm:


This work is for sale. Contact me at brianvds@gmail.com.

Tuesday, 16 August 2022

Off the R516, Limpopo

 Acrylics on Masonite, 15 x 20 cm:

SOLD

This work is for sale. Contact me at brianvds@gmail.com.

Monday, 15 August 2022

Laughing dove

 Acrylics on Masonite, 15 x 20 cm:


These attractive doves are very common around here. They get their name from their call, which supposedly sounds like soft laughter.

This work is for sale. Contact me at brianvds@gmail.com.

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Thursday, 11 August 2022

Three spurfowl

 Acrylics on Masonite, 30 x 20 cm:

SOLD

Used to be known as francolins, but in an attempt to standardize common names, the powers that be in bird nomenclature have changed lots of bird names.

This work is for sale. Contact me at brianvds@gmail.com

Monday, 1 August 2022

Two birds

 Both in acrylics on Masonite, 20 x 15 cm:

Black-eyed bulbul, a common garden bird around here in South Africa:

SOLD

And crowned lapwing, very common in grasslands, including parks and sport fields:

SOLD



Monday, 25 July 2022

R43, Western Cape

 Acrylics on Masonite, 20 x 30 cm:


This work is for sale. Contact me at brianvds@gmail.com.

Thursday, 23 June 2022

Abandoned vehicle, Northern Cape

Acrylics on Masonite, 15 x 20 cm:

SOLD

I have been tinkering with a new story, but in the meantime it is fun to paint a bit again. Perhaps not the kind of subject matter everyone enjoys, but to me, this kind of slow decay, as nature gradually reasserts itself over the works of man, holds a certain magic I can't quite verbalize. And thus, I paint it.