A new site
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SJQ Watercolour
This is the site I launched at my exhibition at the end of 2009
Quite how the two sites will interrelate is still under consideration
watercolours overlooking the last outpost in the british empire
Today after a very exciting meeting with a new possible client I came back to Pietermaritzburg and, after a snooze went up a hill overlooking the valley with my brother in law, Tim. Because he dawdled so much the sun was setting when we got there but we each had time for a couple of paintings. Here are mine:
then as the light faded I sat under the trees in the foreground and did this one:
And that was that -
Pietermaritzburg is more british than Big Ben – heh heh
watercolour down memory lane #1 – lowveld bush
Long long ago in a country … the company I worked for gave me an award for being a good boy and I got to go to a really upmarket game reserve in the lowveld near Nelspruit (whatever it is called now). I got flu which was a shame but not really because when they all went hairing off into the sunrise to see game (which I don’t enjoy doing much) I wandered to the edge of the camp with my watercolour kit and did these paintings. The Camp was perched on a koppie looking across a valley. As I watched giraffe wandered about below. And a leopard somewhere in the valley “sawed” his displeasure at my presence. For a few hours it grunted and coughed while I painted. In those days I did not paint much on site so it was a great way to spend the morning. And the paintings were OK too I think – though I would handle them slightly differently now. The granites on which I sat were covered with green lichens and aloes which I tried to capture.
In those days I used a half inch flat sable brush A LOT – then my brother Tim who is an artist of note (or so he tells me – no kidding he is – I would let you see his website or blog if he wasn’t such a Luddite) told me it was lazy or affected or something and I went back to rounds.
and the next:
and the last -
this is quite promising I think. I almost gave these away but I am glad I have the referrence – I am so keen to go back to the bush to paint soon.
