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Showing posts with label wildlife. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wildlife. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

African buffalo

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm African buffalo or Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) African buffaloes are strong and imposing ...
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...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

The Guineas are back

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For the first time in many years (except for a brief visit in December 2013), I've had Guinea Fowl visiting my garden again. They eve...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

The way of the crow

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“If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows.” -Rev. Henry Ward Beecher mid 1800’s W...
Monday, September 2, 2013

Gemsbuck (Oryx gazella) Gemsbok

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Watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm 12″ × 8″  Nothing belongs to you of what there is, of what you take, you must share.  - Chi...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Icons of Africa

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W&N watercolour on amedeo 200gsm watercolour paper Two icons of the African bush - the mysterious and legendary Baobab tree and th...
Monday, August 19, 2013

The stately Raven

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Parker pen and Black Quink ink with watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O...
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...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

African silhouettes

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The shadows now so long do grow, That brambles like tall cedars show, Molehills seem mountains, and the ant Appears a monstrous elephant. ...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Jonathan Seagull

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“To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is,” he said, ”you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived…”  - From ‘Jonathan L...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

The Cheetah

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Cats (the Cheetah) were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. ~Paul Gray   Cheetah (Acin...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Painted Dog

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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Barn Owl hunting 2

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Black Pilot FineLiner pen sketch on a coffee-painted back-ground – Nescafé instant, strong! – Bockingford 300gsm  I'm always thri...
Sunday, May 5, 2013

Wildlife Triptych

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Ink with W&N watercolour on a textured back-ground by Kim Klassen   Three beautiful animals of the South African Bushveld . the C...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Silhouettes of Africa

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Winsor & Newton watercolour on Visaual 200gsm The bushveld comes alive at night as the rays fade into dusk, and the smells typica...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Sketching in the Game Reserve

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Some sketches I did while visiting the Krugersdorp Game Reserve (Gauteng, South Africa). The herds stay quite close to the road and don...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros)

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W&N watercolours on Amedeo 200gsm watercolour paper  The Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) is a woodland antelope found thr...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Black Wildebeest (Connochaetes gnou)

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm  Often, when travelling on the Sterkfontein road on our way to Lanseria Airport, these Blac...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Baby Elephant walk

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“Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Cheetah on the rocks

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Black Pilot FineLiner ink sketch and W&N watercolour on Amedeo 200gsm  Stalks of brittle grass, towering and light-russet in colo...