A bowl of lemons

When making a whistle stop tour to visit our son in Cape Town I of course had to go and visit some art shops.  Sadly nothing quite compares to that huge craft store in Dubai called Creative Minds…  I am going to have to make peace with more modest art stores here in SA.  Finding…

Quick “sketches”

Ive been doing some quick painting “sketches” in between some large commission work. I find doing something quick and unrelated without the pressure of “delivering the goods”a bit of a palette cleanser.  This break between meals so to speak allows me to go onto the next project refreshed, and not still dwelling on a recently…

Yummy fun…

I’ve drawn cupcakes for my daughters bedroom, but never painted a cupcake.  One of my art students asked me to help them paint a cupcake for a birthday gift. I wasn’t sure where to begin – acrylic paint and pencil crayon are after all, vastly different mediums. Before helping her with her project I decided…