Watercolour stories
What is in a watercolour?
The paper, the colour, the brush – even the water – each impacts the outcome. The artist, the subject, the moment in time. Each has a story. Maybe a tiny sliver in the grand flow of world events – but each watercolour records a vector in the flow.
Light is Sweet – 23 October 2021
Welcome to all those who signed up for this newsletter since my last edition. [...]
Open Window Newsletter – September 2021
Here we are in Spring. The ‘Local Stories’ 2022 Calendar is out there and [...]
Local Stories Watercolour Calendar 2022
Are you ready to engage as PATCH and SJQW create the Local Stories Watercolour [...]
Tools and Technology
Tools are beautiful. Something about design for function makes the result attractive. And rendering [...]
Helderberg Reserve
We have a mountain in the middle of our town. And long ago, some far [...]
Route 44 Market
Audacia Farm is a great venue for Route 44 Market. People would come from [...]
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 [...]
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.
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