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…
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Another portrait
When I look at my first ever portrait and my most recent of the same subject I have come a long way. The choice of paper for the first sketch was very coarse sketch book paper because it was all very experimental. The coarseness of the paper tends to catch a lot of the graphite of the softer…
Portraiture Challenge
School was probably the last time I drew a face with any degree of seriousness, and that was 3 plus decades ago at the very least! About a month ago I decided to give it another try. I have always been fascinated by faces, how different light affects the expression and how to use tonal variances…
A first attempt at portraiture
For a while now I have been wanting to try my hand at portraiture, but fear has consistently got in the way. I can draw a face, I wasn’t too worried about that… It was making the face look like the person that I was drawing that I was terrified of not getting right! I…
Irises and memories……
I had an Aunt, my Mothers older sister who was very special to me. She was also a an incredible and gifted gardener. We used to visit her often when she lived in Johannesburg because Phil was there regularly on business. She used to take me on her jaunts to the various local nurseries shopping…
More BeetROOTS……
The other day I ate fresh beetroot for the first time in years and while preparing them I thought what fun they would be to draw. I did a little reading up on this veg and it is a very versatile source of food and will be making a much bigger appearance in my kitchen…
Mallee Eucalyptus
This Eucalyptus is native to the south west of Western Australia. It grows to between 0.8 and 5 metres in height. It has silver grey leaves and the red, pink or cream flowers are up to 100 mm in diameter. This Eucalyptus flowers in early spring to summer and from late autumn to early winter….
Toadstools
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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