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Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Friday, July 24, 2015

Autumn - wonderful time of the year!

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A small W&N watercolour in Moleskine 200gsm watercolour sketch-book Autumn (fall) in South Africa (mid-February to April) offers th...
Friday, September 26, 2014

A Windpomp and a gate

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  W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm A familiar sight in South Africa – a windmill drawing the life blood from the earth. Water ...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Cloudy day

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W&N watercolour on Aqua acid-free 300gsm Summer-time in Magaliesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.  It is windy today. And cloudy. ...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

The year's last, loveliest smile!

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 Watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm 12″ × 8″ . For me, Autumn holds a special fascination. First of all because my birthday is in Autum...
Saturday, November 30, 2013

See nature with understanding

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Coffee back-ground (Nescafé instant) and colour wash on Bockingford 300gsm I was actually trying for an abstract here, but it seems n...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Winter in Summer

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“When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.” — David Hockney W&N wate...
Monday, May 6, 2013

This garden that I know

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 "There is a garden that is not like the other gardens round about. In many of these gardens the flowers are only prisoners, force...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

The True nature of Peace

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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.   - Walt Whitman  ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Nature's Peace

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Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their ...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

She is Mother Nature

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A daily practice of sketching and painting gives you a chance to exercise the big three P's - practice, practice, practice! Black i...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Africa's Wonder

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A daily practice of sketching and painting gives you a chance to exercise the big three P's - practice, practice, practice! “Let a Perso...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Seeking Nature in Spring

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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet. - Voltaire (1694 - 1778) A dail...
Monday, January 31, 2011

Why the environment has to be preserved

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Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

Magnificent Nature

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I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment...
Sunday, July 4, 2010

Nature at its best

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I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Blackberry Blossom from Nature As Is

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"Blackberry Blossom" - a quick pencil sketch and watercolour done from a photograph taken by 'Nature As Is' - on Bockin...