Watercolour stories
What is a watercolour?
Some lines, some colours on paper?
Perhaps.
But the paper, the colour, the brush – each has a story.
The artist, the subject, the moment in time.
Each bring a small part to a slice of history.
Perhaps this slice is just a backwater to the grand flow of events in the world.
But it is a story none-the-less.
And here are some of my watercolour stories:
Light is Sweet
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Route 44 Market
Audacia Farm is a great venue for Route 44 Market. People would come from all over Cape Town for food, [...]
Watercolour-a-Day 2021: Week 4
Another week painting one watercolour-a-day
Helderberg Reserve
Helderberg mountain is our iconic peak looking over Somerset West, the basin and the farms along the Route 44
Tshwane
Tshwane is the new name for Pretoria
Watercolour-a-Day 2021: Week 3
Week 3 2021 I have been feeling a little under the weather this week. And I have had quite a bit [...]
Camping Tech
Anything designed for effective functioning has a special kind of beauty. And this is no better illustrated in the technology we carry on our backs when we hike and camp.
Ladybrand Road
There is a long gentle uphill road from the border post at Maseru to the main road in to Bloemfontein. People usually bustle their way on. But there is this tantalising turn-off to the right a couple of kms from the border, onto a dirt road.
Cats and Dogs
"Dogs look up to you and cats look down on you. But pigs! Pigs look you straight in the eye." - Winston Churchill
Sketching People
There is something compelling about the immediacy of painting people in a public, uncontracted setting.
The Pipe – a Short History in Watercolour
I posted my first blog postings of my paintings at The Pipe in 2008. This record therefore constitutes something of a short history
Watercolour Diary of a consulting excursion
A watercolour travel diary based on one painting a day
Radloff Park – A morning of watercolour
Painting watercolours at the Lourens River in Radloff Park
Ebb & Flow
Ebb and Flow is a pleasant campsite on the Touw River just upstream from the Town of Wilderness
Fire in Helderberg Basin – January 2017
fire raged for days, eventually reaching the edge of town where helicopters and trucks fought to minimise the damage
Noordhoek Corner
Noordhoek is a popular surf spot for the surfers in Southern Peninsula. It is also a popular hangout for Great Whites - and it is a great place to paint watercolours.
Triggerfish Brewery #1
Triggerfish Brewery at Paardevlei makes excellent craft beer and are a destination for good food and local music. The Brewery is [...]