Stormy weather, Roodepoort

 Acrylics on panel, 15 x 20 cm:

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Roses at the door

 Acrylics on panel, 15 x 10 cm:

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Early summer, Parkview

 Acrylics on panel, 15 x 10 cm:

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Used a reference photo taken by my sister-in-law in her street. This time of year, the jacarandas are in bloom, making for clouds and carpets of purplish-blue flowers. Getting the color just right turned out to be really difficult, and it was even more difficult to get the camera to accurately reproduce what I painted!

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Winding road

 Acrylics on panel, 15 x 10 cm:

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A blue door

 Acrylics on panel, 15 x 10 cm:

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Link tree

Summer cottage

 Acrylics on panel, 15 x 10 cm:

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Link tree 

Bo-Kaap district, Cape Town

 Acrylics on panel, 15 x 20 cm:

Link tree

Street market, Zanzibar

 Acrylics on panel, 20 x 15 cm:

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Overgrown chimney

 Acrylics on board, 20 x 15 cm:

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Link tree

Aloes at the corner

 Acrylics on board, 30 x 20 cm:

We tend to associate aloes with the tropics. But here in my corner of the world they bloom in winter, so they often make me think of cold, gloomy days. I took the reference photo on which I somewhat loosely based this picture just a few blocks from where I live. It was a bright, crisp day, but when I painted it the weather was rather gloomy and overcast, and this slipped into the painting, I think.

Link tree

Ruimte Road, Centurion

Oil on board, 15 x 20 cm:

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 Loosely based on a photo I took on a morning walk.

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Parked truck

 Acrylics on Masonite, 20 x 15 cm:

Saw these blokes busy with something or other, right across the street from me, so I took a quick photo for reference. The painting is only rather loosely based on it. I live in a rather dreary suburb, and have long complained that there is nothing to paint here. But of course, one should just look - there is something worth painting almost anywhere. Or at least, that's my current theory, which I intend to test by paying more attention to my own surroundings.

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House in Melchome street

 Oil on Masonite, 20 x 15 cm:

One of my occasional experiments in a more or less expressionist kind of style. 

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Palm tree

 Oil on Masonite, 20 x 15 cm:

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Winter tree, Centurion

 Oil on Masonite, 20 x 15 cm:

I took a whole bunch of photos of street trees last year. Finally got around to painting one!

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Hout Bay Road

 Oil on Masonite, 15 x 20 cm:

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Traffic in the rain

 Acrylics on Masonite, 15 x 20 cm:

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Conversation

 Oil on Masonite, 20 x 15 cm:

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Blue, green, white

 Oil on Masonite, 15 x 10 cm:

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This rather attractive house is just a block or two from where I live. I have been wanting to paint it for ages, and now I finally got around to it. 

Early evening

 Oil on Masonite, 15 x 20 cm:

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When working in oil, I am always tempted to channel the expressionists...