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Showing posts with label watercolour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label watercolour. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Small paintings in a sketch-book

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I have this small, hand-made little sketch-book with satin-finish linen paper, which is exquisite to paint in. The paint takes on a life ...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

My favourite outfits

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm I just love autumn shades and these days comfort also plays a huge roll in planning my ward...
Saturday, July 24, 2021

H. hortensis

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Flowers have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

The Poppy

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm Poppies in a friend’s garden (Tarlton, Gauteng, South Africa) High on a bright and sunny bed ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

A little bit curious...

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm When you come to a bend in the road, aren’t you just a little bit curious as to what lies ju...
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Summer beauties

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W&N watercolour on a back-ground painted with coffee in a Bockingford 300gsm sketch-pad A clump of Shasta daisies, growing at the ...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

A handful of Southerly wind

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"And God took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it and created the horse."    - Bedouin Legend   Pencil,...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Follow the clouds

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm It's always tempting to go a little further and follow the clouds to see what's just ...
Friday, October 17, 2014

The worst is over...

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Ink sketch and W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm Winter is gone… but still the weather teases, keeping the rain just around th...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Amethyst Sunbird female

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm Black Sunbird feeding on the Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker) flowers in my garden (Tarl...
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 ...
Saturday, September 6, 2014

The colour of Winter

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The colour of springtime is in the flowers, the colour of winter is in the imagination.   ~Terri Guillemets  W&N watercolour on ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Arum fields

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm A happy meander through the fields and flowers of a sunny Spring morning ... .
Saturday, August 2, 2014

Thoughts

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm  Thoughts drifting through my mind as I wend my way up the path towards the gate… .
Saturday, July 26, 2014

Early Winter-morning sketch

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W&N watercolour sketch on Bockingford 300gsm 5am. So... I'll finish when my fingers are less frozen... .
Saturday, July 12, 2014

Colourful country living

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm A colourful front door on a smallholding not far from where I live.  ::
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Such Geraniums!

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Such geraniums! It does not become us poor mortals to be vain—but, really, my geraniums! - Mary Mitford, ‘Our Village’ ...
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. ...
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, August 13, 2013

Leopard on the rocks

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The leopard lingered in the sun Almost at close of day, With all its hours almost done And fast to ebb away… The leopard lets his memori...