In my artists philosophy I write of one of my earliest childhood memories of escaping the watchful eye of my mother to pluck one of her precious dahlias from her garden. It was the garden equivalent of an orchestra and I had fallen in love with the most beautifully lush dahlia. It was a magnificent…
An artists process…….
I watched this short video clip this morning and it left me rethinking what I suspect I always knew on a subconscious level…… Phil Hansen – The art of the imperfect The idea that limitations and constraints increase creativity…… Imposing constraints, or in some cases dealing with unavoidable limitations, rather than REMOVING them, allows us…
Resin Disaster…..
Many years ago when my kids were still toddlers decoupage was very fashionable and I used to play around with endless decoupage projects which involved wrapping paper, stenciling things and hand painting trays and it was here I learned of an epoxy resin that dried like clear glass over the base of a serving tray….
A caravan of camels……
Creating an organic landscape is always a labour intensive and time consuming process. It starts with preparing the composition and sketching it onto the canvas just so I have a general idea of where to lay my various texture and gel mediums. Once this is completed the layering and drying process starts and only when…
Cattleya Orchid
This orchid is the final of the set I needed to complete. It is the same Cattleya family to the previous orchid, but just with a wonderful brilliant magenta center. The client wanted me to keep them all similar so I stayed with varieties of white orchids. The background is the same throughout the set…
Another Orchid
This is part two of what will eventually be a set of three. She wants them similar in colour and the background needs to “match”. The first one I completed a while ago as a Christmas gift for a friend. They now want two more (with the same dimensions) to make a grouping of three…
‘MORE’ Camels
Most of the miniatures with the exception of a few and those reserved have sold before I could even frame them and today I completed the last of my large size Organic Camel landscapes which are to be supplied to MORE Cafe. MORE has one of those wonderful policies where both Cafe and artist benefit. …
Camel extravaganza
The last while I have put aside my flower paintings for camels, camels and more camels. There is a huge demand for them and sometimes I struggle to keep up. More Cafe wants more very large canvasses which I still have to attend to. I have laid all the texturing for those already so all…
Irises unfolding
Last year I made myself a promise….. That I would have my big Iris painting completed by the end of the year….. I was hoping to have it hanging up above the piano by Christmas! In my dreams!!!! Well, it is now the end of January 2012 already, and I am finally making inroads into…
Moth Orchid
This is a miniature version of a previous painting of mine. The original was 40 X 50 cm where I had painted a number of orchid blooms and buds. For this one I selected only one fully open bloom and a few buds in the various stages of opening. The Phalaenopsis Orchid whose generic name…
Painting the roses pink….
Within the first few months of us being married Phil was transferred by his company to Upington in the Northern Cape. It was hot in the summer and we lived on the banks of the Orange River which had a very cooling effect on those stifling hot summer days. What it also had was a…
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