W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm
March and end-of-summer in South Africa heralds Cosmos time! Every year these beauties grace the fields and road-sides all over the country.
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Shhh… germination in progress. Can you hear the swish of the brush, dipping, dipping into water, gathering colour from the palette? That's the process of planting flowers in my watercolour garden. *•.¸ðŸŒ¿¸.•*
Monday, April 13, 2015
Cosmos in March
March and end-of-summer in South Africa heralds Cosmos time! Every year these beauties grace the fields and road-sides all over the country.
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Monday, April 6, 2015
African bushveld
This little sketch-book, which I bought in Gateway Shopping Mall in Umhlanga, is absolutely wonderful to paint in. The 'paper' is very much like material and as you paint, the colour sucks in and spreads, surprising you with the results every time. No sketching though, it doesn't take kindly to pen or pencil
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Friday, April 3, 2015
A farm gate
Farm gates and farm fences fascinate me. I can sit for hours sketching variations on the theme and just cannot drive by a farm gate or particularly interesting fence without stopping and sketching it. This is a farm gate on a friend’s smallholding in Tarlton (Gauteng, South Africa).
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Saturday, March 21, 2015
A farm cottage
Done from a photograph, with kind permission of a dear friend, Maria Lock, Millmerran, Queensland, Australia.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
View across the river
View of the Magaliesberg across the river in Broederstroom. Once again Blogger is not playing the game with the colours of my painting, it views much greyer than what it really is!
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