Sunflowers always make me think of slightly shaggy, sloppily dressed flowers with a bonhomie and lackadaisical attitude as their faces follow the sun across the horizon in a worshipful gaze. They even look the part with their haphazard bright yellow petals radiating out from a dark burnt umber heart. Acrylic on canvas 40 X 40…
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Magnolias, ikebana and vessels
Flowers have had a huge influence in my life, I’m sure its why, (besides the fact that I love all things flower) they are such a dominant theme in my artwork. My father was a horticulturist, my mother a florist, and as a result we always had flowers in our home and a beautiful garden…
Red Rose
Red Rose Acrylic on canvas with palette knife 40cm X 40cm Occasionally I start a painting, and I become disheartened with the direction the painting is taking, and I abandon it. This particular painting has been waiting 3 years for me to complete! I had this plan of doing a group of flowers, all the…
Fabulous Fuchsia
I love the glorious tangles of multicoloured flowers that fill a fuchsia bush. Another one of my favourite flowers, (and I have many) that unfortunately does not like to grow in our sub-tropical climate. Their buds form in pairs, and their flowers, once opened, have interesting and unusual shapes. This particular variety – Ballerina Blau,…
An attempt at a monochromatic colour scheme
I think a monochromatic colour scheme has to be one of my more challenging exercises. As much as I try to tone down my penchant for colour, it somehow finds itself back onto my palette. I just cannot help myself. With these paintings I was forced to adhere to very limited variations of white. Monochromatic colour…
King Protea
Acrylic on canvas board 40 X 30 cm Painted only with a palette knife The King Protea – one of my favourite proteas from the protea family. It is widely distributed in the southwestern and southern parts of South Africa in the fynbos region and looks so striking in flower arrangements, or in the garden. My father was a horticulturist…
Bramble Rose
Acrylic on stretched canvas 50 X 76 X 2 cm As you all know I love painting flowers and I especially love single petaled climbing roses that grow up the sides of buildings or over garden fences in a wild frenzy of abundance. Their flowers are simple and their fragrance gorgeous.
Aloe Africana
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.
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
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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