Thursday, 2 March 2017

Monday, 27 February 2017

Friday, 24 February 2017

Wednesday, 22 February 2017

Thursday, 16 February 2017

Wednesday, 15 February 2017

Highveld Landscape Revisited, and Other Phenomena

I decided I didn't like the cattle in the landscape in the previous post; they looked rather amateurishly painted, at least to my dubious eye. So I removed them:


Oil on board, 20 x 25 cm.

And a primary school high jump practice supervisor:


Oil on board, 18 x 13 cm.

Monday, 13 February 2017

Highveld Landscape

The kind of thing I grew up with - sun-drenched fields with cattle and outbuildings. Loosely based on a photo I took near the town of Rayton, Gauteng. Oil on board, 20 x 25 cm:


Thursday, 9 February 2017

Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Mango

Oil on board, 10 x 15 cm:


Mangoes have the most marvelous colours - how can one not paint them?

Thursday, 2 February 2017

Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Fishing Boat

And another small oil, 20 x 25 cm:


As usual, the camera washed out and changed the colour a bit.

Thursday, 26 January 2017

Autumn Tree

I haven't tried out an oil painting in ages, so why not? Oil on board, 25 x 20 cm:


Monday, 23 January 2017

Charcoal sketches

I have been messing around with charcoal. And messing is the right word - fragile, powdery stuff that smudges all over the page, and about as easy to control as a feral cat. But I like the broad, painterly effects, and I'm thinking I should do a lot more. They seem to be a good antidote to my tendency to nitpick drawings to death when working with more precise media.



Friday, 13 January 2017