Travel Sketch Book - South Africa 2012

My flight to Port Elizabeth April 2012          

Vovotelo - lovely coffee shop Richmond Hill

Splash Festival - view from Blue Waters Cafe

Barnacles restaurant in Seaview                      

My sister catching a nap!                                

Easter Sunday with the Godfreys in Beachview

Affordable Car Hire                                        

PE Yacht Club - excellent food is served here 

A trip out to Jeffreys Bay with Sandra             

De Walskipper - rustic and beachy restaurant!

 One of Karl's special cars                                                 

Distraught mannequin at Walmer Park on friday 13th          

Memory Lane coffee shop with Miranda       

Angelo's coffee shop - Walmer                    

At cousin Betsy's beautiful home, Gamtoos 

From deck at Gamtoos                              

  Brunch at Dulce's with Dina                         

Breakfast at the Blue Orange - Walmer                        

Henry, King of braai, doing what he does best                 

Oil Painting - Simply Red

Oil on canvas measuring 50 x 70cm.

Quite expressive compared to my usual work and powerful! I am happy with the result.

Oil Painting - Mystical moment.

Oil on canvas measuring 80 x 80cm.

I sense a style developing here. Just loving the figure painting once again.

Oil Painting - Vulnerable woman

My love for figurative painting is back :-).

Oil on canvas measuring 60 x 80cm.

Sculpture - Small acrylic torso

My latest creation! This is available in different shades and different colours. Very pretty! As the daylight changes, it catches on different angles of the sculpture.
20cm tall.

Available at €125 + postage.

Sketch - 10 minute sketches

I just love life-drawing! I find the quicker sketches just dont allow time to get lost in the details. They are just so honest!

Oil painting - Blues night scene

Oil painting measuring 50x70cm. This blues/jazz scene was inspired by a picture of a Chicago night scene. I used the image as my starting point to create this abstraction.

SOLD

Model - conte and charcoal

Living on the edge! This conte and charcoal sketch was a lot of fun :-)

sculpture - tile

This is my favourite sculpture of this year. Probably because it was an open brief. The only instruction was to start with a thick slab of clay and cut away to end up with a design. I refered to a work by Picasso (blue). The model looks to be rising out of or sinking into the clay. At this stage it is drying until it is ready for the kiln. The mould is still in good shape and therefore I will use it to either make a plaster or cement image next. The size of the tile is a bit larger than an A4 sheet of paper.

Sculpture - plaster portrait

This plaster portrait took a long time. I enjoyed creating the possitive image in clay but the mould and then the final piece in plaster were a disaster. She was removed from the mould with her nose and part of her mouth missing. I have repaired her but I am not happy with the end result. The photo does not show her imperfections. Maybe I should admit at this point that I am a perfectionist and a control freak :-)