The Nguni (a type of breed of cattle) is unique to southern Africa. A hybrid of a number of Indian and later European cattle breeds, they were introduced by Bantu-speaking tribes to southern Africa during their migration from the north of the continent. They are characterised by their multicoloured skin, which can present in many…
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A lemon, an onion & a pear…
A set of three quick still-life studies with a limited palette. LEMON Stretched canvas – 30cm X 30cm Paint Colours: Titanium white, raw umber, burnt umber, cadmium yellow light, raw sienna ONION Stretched canvas 30cm X 30cm Paint colours: Titanium white raw umber burnt sienna burnt umber cadmium yellow light raw sienna permanent Alizarin crimson…
Quick study – lemon tree
I used a 7 x 5 inch canvas board that had been pre-prepared with a colour ground of Yellow Ochre Acrylic paint. For the sketch, I used a Burnt Umber watercolour marker, as it’s water-soluble and allows me to blend sections using just a water brush pen to softly indicate the shadows. Acrylic paint colours…
4 Seasons
Winter, my absolute favourite of all the 4 seasons! Summer, as bright and beautiful as it is, it is probably the least favourite of my seasons because of the heat in the tropics! That said, the flowers and colours summer produces are magnificent in their brilliance! Spring has an almost fluorescent brilliance to it which…
A Cornish harbour
I am trying to paint more seascapes and landscapes. I get very overwhelmed when there is this magnificent scene in front of me that demands painting – even when it is a photograph. It takes lots of practice to select a good composition, and then do it justice on a canvas. A friend posted a beautiful photo on Facebook a…
Exploring landscape techniques
I have spent the last 10 odd years doing my organic landscapes influenced by my desert surrounds. Recently I have tried exploring other types of landscapes. I don’t often get the time to just paint as so much of my time is spent doing commissions, but every now and again I like to do something…
Blue Hibiscus
A bit of artistic license has been used in this painting as the instructions were very specific. It had to be a hibiscus, and it had to be blue. I certainly don’t have a blue hibiscus growing in my garden, and to be honest I am not even sure if there is such a cultivar….
Golden Delicious
This was an exercise in creating a shape from developing the light and shade to build the form of the apple. For the coloured ground (the yellow under painting I apply to the white canvas before I draw on the shape and begin painting) I used the following: Yellow ochre Cadmium yellow light For the…
Yellow Daffodil
Another commission for a daffodil….. It would seem as the summer draws to a close and cold winters loom on the horizon, people are already looking forward to seeing the wild daffodils in the midst of their spring bloom. When I think of yellow I think of my favourite poem by Wordsworth ‘I wandered Lonely…
A Knights Tale
Living with a creative person who paints for a living my family just assume I can paint anything! I cant, but I’m learning fast! A while back I was asked by my son to draw a spaceship he had built for the game EVE Online that he was an avid player of. I am not…
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…
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…
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