Minitures

Miniture cup paintings, little gifts for this festive season.

Oil on board.

Leave you with a quote for the day:

Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company. ~Author Unknown

Stacked cups

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My alltime favorite , cups stacked. These vintage cups has the most wonderfull colours and always makes a lovely painting.

Oil on stretched canvas.
Size: 50 x 20 cm

Faces - 2

A range off faces in an interesting new project, will upload as they are finished.
Enjoy..

Cups, mostly green

green , and a hint of blue. amazing how well these cool colours go together. dash of pink and a lovely combination.

Oil on board.

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Faces - 1

I am busy painting a collection of fasces, enjoy while i will be uploading them through the week.

Oil on canvas.

Kitchen scene complete

Wise words borrowed from a very creative blogger, dj pettitt.

"The key then is to find your own mountain,
other wise you will be competing
with people who are not even in your event,

and running up against
the 'shoulds' and 'oughts' of that world,
and the inevitable frustration and depression
and feelings of failure.

A person can be complete or incomplete,
but one thing is sure;
he cannot be someone else."
George Sheehan M.D

Recent new work

One of the paintings on my easle,a kitchen scene. Must be the old farmgirl in me, painting farm kitchens. How I miss the smell of rain, wind blowing, etc.

Oil on canvas
Size: 1000cm x 800 cm

Vintage kitchen

All vintage, reds & yellow.

Framed in old vintage frame.
Oil on board.
Size: 1000 cm x 50 cm

Child & dog @ sea

A little painting, reminding us of the coming holidays.
One of my class paintings.

Oil on board.
Size: 25 x 30 cm

A Christmas scene

Its that time of year, shops are filled with festiveness and houses are decorated with bright and lights. I'm sure we are all looking foreword to the holiday break.

Oil on board
Framed in old vintage frame
Size: 48 x 38 cm

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Enamel cup with red lily

Small little gem,
Oil on stretched blocked canvas
Size : 21 x 15 cm

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Aubergines in enamel bowl

Aubergines painted on an old wood panel, old & vintage.
Oil on wood.
Size: 42 x 53 cm

Arum lilies & pomegranetes

Pomegranetes & arumlilies, contrastes in yellow and red.

Oil on canvas
Framed in old vintage frame
Size: 72 x 55 cm

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Cups in a row, with roses

My favorite cups in a row. I love how each windowscene has its own mood.

Oil on board.
Framed in old vintage frame.

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Arum lilies in bucket

ARum lilies in bucket
Oil on board
Framed in steel pressed ceiling frame

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Karoo landscape 2

Love this new landscapes, my holiday wish is to visit Cape Provence for the holidays.

Oil on board
Framed in old vintage frame.

Geraniums in enamel jug

Geraniums in enamel jug. Lovely bright reds.
Oil on board.

A guote for the day:

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck

Landscape in' klein karoo'

Oil on board
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Sunflowers in blue pot

Sunflowers painted in oil on board in a loosely manner

sunflower - any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Sunflowers as defined by wikepedia:

Sunflowers

Now that I hope to live with Gauguin in a studio of our own, I want to make decorations for the studio. Nothing but big flowers.

Leaving aside the first two versions, all Arlesian Sunflowers are painted on size 30 canvases.

The initial versions, August 1888

None meets the descriptions supplied by Van Gogh himself in his announcement of the series in every detail: The first version differs in size, is painted on a size 20 canvas—not on a size 15 canvas as indicated—and all the others differ in the number of flowers depicted from Van Gogh's announcement.

The second was evidently enlarged and the initial composition altered by insertion of the two flowers lying in the foreground, center and right.

Neither the third nor the fourth shows the dozen or 14 flowers indicated by the artist, but more—fifteen or sixteen.

These alterations are executed wet-in-wet and therefore considered genuine rework—even the more as they are copied to the repetitions of January 1889: There is no longer a trace of later alterations, at least in this aspect.

Sunflowers, first version: turquoise background Oil on canvas, 73.5 × 60 cm Private collection

Sunflowers, second version: royal-blue background Oil on canvas, 98 × 69 cm Formerly private collection, Japan, destroyed by fire in World War II on 6 August 1945

Sunflowers, third version: blue green background Oil on canvas, 91 × 72 cm Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Sunflowers, fourth version: yellow background Oil on canvas, 92.1 × 73 cm National Gallery, London, England

Visual art..

A scene from my home this morning.
I walked outside enjoying the wet garden, after rain over the weekend the garden smells fresh and wet. How often we miss out on little things in live, because we ponder on yesterday.
So for today, give your list to God, walk out into the garden and enjoy.

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920

Geranium in blue jug

Oil on canvas, framed in old vintage frame.

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Cups in a row

My favorite cups in a row.
Oil on board.
Framed in old vintage frame.

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Green mangoes & white roses 2

Another version of grandmas kitchen. This old vintage frame was a perfect match for the enamel jug and white roses.
Oil on board.

Man with hat

In our weekly classes we painted this old man.
It was a challenge, because we painted upside down.

Oil on canvas.
Framed with old vintage frame.

Provence

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Provence Antique market A lovely french antique art & craft market once a month , just off the Polokwane highway onto the Zambezi off ramp.
There are lovely antiques, pancakes etc.

New stock for this market tomorrow..