Mango

Oil on board, 10 x 15 cm:

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

Street in Stellenbosch

Oil on board, 20 x 25 cm:

Two Peppers

Both oil on board, 13 x 18 cm:

Fishing Boat

And another small oil, 20 x 25 cm:

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

Autumn Tree

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

Another Dutch landscape

Acrylic on board, 20 x 25 cm:

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.