For the last couple of days I have been experimenting with my new toy. A silicone wedge – a not quite brush or wedge, but a tool that offers a new form of expression. It, I would imagine is not suitable for all mediums, but lends itself I find particularly well to acrylic paint. The…
Bramble roses
Once the background had been painted a variety of greens were added to represent the dense tangled foliage of the bramble roses. Palette knives are symmetric, with no sharpened cutting edge, and often have a slight crank between the handle and the blade. The one I am using in the above short clip is one of my favourites….
An arrangement of lilacs
Lilacs – Acrylic on 300gsm paper, 30 cm X 42 cm These close-ups show how the delicate watercolour droplets give an illusion of the delicate lilac buds and add to the delicate composition of the flower arrangement in spite of the heavy textured application of paint. Thick, textured paint is applied with a combination of…
Hydrangeas on paper
GSM is an acronym for “Grams Per Square Metre’ which means how much a single sheet of paper measuring 1m x 1m weighs. The lower the GSM the lighter the paper and the higher the GSM the heavier the paper. … 70gsm to 80gsm. This range of paper weight is commonly used as office paper and is normally used as copier paper. Heavier weight cartridge papers like the Snowdon Cartridge 300gsm can cope with stronger mark-making…
Delphiniums
Delphiniums are showy, spiky blooms on a tall, sometimes towering stem. These beautiful slightly old fashioned cottage garden flowers bring unrivalled height and colour to summer gardens with their showy spikes of vibrant flowers. The most common colours are shades of blue or purple which are filling this bucket. Initially I applied a gel medium…
The Seductive Sweetpea
Sweetpeas are gorgeous flowers, obligingly abundant, and wonderfully fragrant with the most seductive scent. Some are more acutely fragrant than others with an intense, rich perfume. Traditionally, it’s the heirloom Grandiflora-type sweet peas that have been grown for their fragrance. If one had to capture the airy sweetness of the sweet peas, I think it would smell somewhere between orange blossom and…
pink delft and luscious dahlias
Dahlias never fail to dazzle with their distinctive colours, smell, and bright fluffy opulent blooms.
I can definitely smell the Dahlias!
I love the smell of dahlias – it is like nothing else, with a slightly bitter note. This bowl of dahlias are inspired by the beautiful dahlias @adeneflowers, a flower and fruit farm in Wolseley about 120 km’s outside of Cape Town or an hour and a half drive. those pungent colours and their unique smell…
A new paint tool
My new silicone blade has been a great addition to my artists toy box. Ideal for moving large volumes of paint around on the canvas – works like a spatula Helps control the density of applied colour, or erase excess paint Can be used to create sharp edges, or help blend and soften edges It…
A rose bowl of memories
Flowers have been an integral part of my life and as a result my choice of subject matter and a recurring theme in my work. Even after exploring other subject matter such as landscapes, and portraiture I always returned to flowers, which are a constant in my life, and a continuous choice of subject to…
Periwinkle blue
Periwinkle blue is never one colour. It has such a variety in the blues and mauves and makes a beautiful ground cover that can flower throughout the year. I seem to be enjoying blues in flowers at the moment and all the varieties of blue on the colour scale from mauve, to cornflower blue, to…
You can never have enough flowers in a bucket
I think it is blatantly obvious I love painting flowers. In this bucket I placed the softest of pink blush roses, and in contrast to the soft tones of the roses I painted purple petunias, and periwinkles all the while exploring techniques for using the palette knife. 40 cm X 40 cm X 4 cm,…
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