Urban Retreat

Here is a painting I did in the Little Karoo, taking a different route home from George.

This is painted on a half sheet of Arches Cold Pressed (560 x 380mm).

I would like to do it again, with a little more aerial perspective, softening the background hills.  But there it is.

Touw River in July

I was up in George with clients over the last weekend.  I had a meeting on Friday afternoon and spent the morning on the Giant Kingfisher Trail painting the river.  It was a beautiful blustery morning following a night of hot dry winds in front of an approaching cold front.  I had a great morning filming my walk-in, set up and painting process.  All this work has been lost but here is the painting:

Family at The Pipe

Last week I had a great surf with my boys and stole a few minutes after we had packed up to take some photos of the closing day.  There was a family playing on the beach and I took some shots to paint in the studio.   Here is the first watercolour:

This has also been posted on my website as part of a parallel run.