Tag: fynbos
A collage of proteas
Before I began painting I added a cadmium red coloured ground to the whole canvas. I wanted the red to come through the grey background as well as show through the scratchings from the palette knife around the protea centres and their outside petals and leaves. The red is also great for warm layers later…
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…
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