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Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Changing season

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm The last signs of winter are fast disappearing as spring starts to peep through. We've ha...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Blue gum fantasy

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm in small sketch-book Blue gum trees on our smallholding (Tarlton, Gauteng, South Africa) I must...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Enter these enchanted woods

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm Enter these enchanted woods – Ye who dare .
Friday, December 30, 2022

Plant and care for trees

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It's the end of another year and even after living here at the coast (KwaZulu Natal, South Africa) for the past 3 years, I'm still l...
Monday, December 26, 2022

The beauties of Nature

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Acrylic on canvas Tasmanian bluegum (Eucalyptus globulus) This large, straight-trunked tree grows to about 70m tall in open forests ...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

Trying again

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It’s amazing how insecure about my colours I’ve become since not touching a brush for almost four years. And as I might have mentioned befor...
Friday, December 17, 2021

Rhus lancea leaves - Black Karee - Botanical illustration

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W&N watercolour on Amedeo 200gsm mixed media paper Leaves of a Black Karee tree in my garden (Tarlton, Gauteng, South Africa) I...
Thursday, November 11, 2021

Bluegum fantasy

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm in small sketch-book Blue gum eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus to the botanists), have been ...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

A happy ending

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to th...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Early-morning Bluegums

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  Acrylic on canvas The first light of day sweeps across some Bluegums (Eucalyptus trees) in Tarlton, Gauteng, South Africa.  ...
Friday, July 8, 2016

Plant for the Planet

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W&N watercolour on DalerRowney 220gsm (135lb) Smooth heavy-weight sketching paper, from my imagination, no preliminary sketching. ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Fifty shades of brown

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm. Using various shades of brown mixed from a variety of colours on my palette.
Sunday, November 1, 2015

Bloekomdraai

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W&N watercolour in Moleskine 200gsm sketchbook A scene a couple of kilometers from where I live - a gravel road through Tarlton (So...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

A scene at my pond

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W&N watercolour in Moleskine 200gsm watercolour sketchbook I have this bit of Celtis forest (Celtis africana - White Stinkwood) at...
Saturday, October 3, 2015

Sketching again

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Black ink sketch and colour wash on Amedeo 200gsm I feel it's time for sketching again, have been neglecting it of late, been prefe...
Sunday, September 27, 2015

The dark forest

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  W&N watercolour in a small sketch-book with Bockingford 300gsm watercolour paper A different depiction of the blue gum bush on our...
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...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Visiting a friend

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm The driveway to a friend’s house on their smallholding in Tarlton, Gauteng, South Africa. ...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

The river trees...

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Mixed media on Bockingford 300gsm – W&N watercolour, acrylic and candle wax The Magalies River at Wicker Tea Gardens (Gauteng, Sout...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Autumn colours

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm We're nearing the end of Autumn and soon these trees will all be stark and bare, a beautif...