Amanita Muscaria with Betula leaves….. Sounds very fancy, but all it is is Latin for toadstools with birch leaves. My 4th attempt at Botanical illustrations. Also done on artists sketch paper with a combination of pencil and pencil crayon. The two mushrooms look like they have been drawn in pencil, but in reality they are…
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An attempt at botanical illustrations
I have always been interested in trying my hand at botanical illustrations. My father was a forester and a horticulturist, my mother a florist and I come from a long line of fanatical gardeners so I guess it makes sense that this line of illustration would interest me. Initially I wanted to do the botanical…
Fluorescent Dahlia
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…
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…
Violet Bearded Iris
This bearded iris center has an almost abstract quality. Irises are very much stand alone flowers, which rise elegantly above long slender leaves. The flower has three falls, those large petals curving downwards graced by bearded accents and three tall majestically upright standards. These gorgeous upright petals enclose the center open mouth protectively, inviting you…
Mezzaluna Exhibition – Emirates Palace
I received the poster the other day from Kurt Blum of Swiss Art Gate that will be used for advertising the exhibition at the Mezzaluna in the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The exhibition will be featuring 12 of my flower paintings and 3 of my abstracts. The partly cropped painting used in the…
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