Aloe Africana Size: A4 (20 X 30 cm) Albrecht Durer water colour pencil crayons On cold pressed 200gm paper The 1st in a series of aloes that I have completed.
Sweets & treats
The last couple of days I have been busy with drawings of cupcakes and macarons. They are becoming hugely popular as a form of decorative art for newborns and little girls bedrooms. They are fun, quick and easy to draw. The only downside is they leave me craving cupcakes and macarons! I do the initial…
Pink tulip unfolds
Created for a friend for her birthday. Pink Tulip Acrylic on 15 X 15 X 4 cm Colours used: White Cadmium red Alizarin Crimson Cadmium orange medium Hunters green Indigo Raw umber Rose blush Violet oxide
Heads or tails
A simple study of fish Acrylic on canvas board 20 X 30 cm For the Coloured Ground Raw Umber Titanium White Acrylic For the Main Painting Titanium White Raw Umber Phthalo Blue – Red Shade Permanent Alizarin Crimson Raw Sienna A quick study of every day subject matter in a combination of paint and glazes…
Pouring paint
A commission for a young mans living room. The palette is very limited and the focus is a huge TV screen and 2 big comfy chairs all geared towards gaming. The stipulated colours for the acrylic pour were silver, charcoal, and grey. The colours I used in the pour to create the combination his Mom…
Baking Cupcakes
I love cupcakes and I get requests from the family to bake cupcakes on a regular basis. My problem is I am a very lazy baker. I hate sifting flour, I hate beating this, and adding that in little portions, and then whisking between additions, which is why I absolutely love Nigella Lawson’s book “How…
Tulips
For the last while I have been trying to develop a technique for using a palette knife. There are all sorts of different shapes, sizes, and angles of palette knife. When I used to do my camel landscapes I used palette knives almost exclusively for the application of the mixed media onto the canvas, but…
Hands and feet
During the last week I have been sketching hands and feet. 6 to be precise, 3 studies of each. Running a guesthouse and maintaining everything is often a juggling skill that keeps you on your toes. There is always something that needs replacing, repairing or fixing. We just did the roof which took a rather…
Acrylic pouring
With the move back to South Africa and the adjustment to a knew environment it has taken me a while to find my rhythm and mojo. Even now, 18 months down the line there is so much to do in the guesthouse, I struggle to find the continuous hours I need to complete a…
A vase of white peonies
The first step was to stain a 30 X 30cm canvas ready for painting. The practice of staining a canvas is called, imprimatura. This is an initial stain of color painted on as a ground. It provides a painter with a transparent, toned ground, which will allow light falling onto the painting to reflect through the paint…
Grey Tonal Study of a Lily
A brief very quick “painting sketch”of a lily in various shades of grey, black and white. Titanium White N8 Neutral Gray 8 N6 Neutral Gray 6 N4 Neutral Gray 4 Carbon Black
Sunny sunflowers
Sunflowers always make me smile! They are these beautiful, cheerful heads of bright yellow nodding their heads in the breeze. I used only a palette knife for this painting. I am in the process of teaching myself to use a palette knife with some particular subject matter in mind that lends itself to this style…
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