Untitled African Landscape

(Untitled)
24*48"
Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas



So how long does it take to paint a landscape?

Well, very, very long if you decide to attempt a more realistic landscape painting for the first time. And to make it even more of challenge, paint it on a 2*4 feet canvas. So, I started this painting last spring (May/June) and after quite a bit of repainting and some more layers. Some technique building such as painting clouds, trees and grass. It is done.

But I do not know what title to give it? If you look at the landscape, it is a picture of Wildebeest migrating at sunset. When you look at the clouds, you will notice that they look like clouds that hang around after a thunder storm. So imagine that there was a late afternoon thunderstorm. The wildebeest waited it out and now that it has cleared, they are moving on in the last few minutes of sunlight. The sun is very low. It is reflecting yellow on the bottom of the clouds and shiny reflections of the side of the trees and wildebeest. Now you know the setting and maybe you can help me to title it by leaving a comment.

Thank you so much for looking at my art and if you leave a comment thank you again. This painting is done. What a relief!

Landscape Abstract

Landscape Abstract
16*20"
$150

 Who said an artist can't interpret the object? Who said colors  have to be realistic? This landscape painting is about the paint, the push and pull of warm vs cold colors and texture. Inspired by Henry Matisse a painter of the Fauvist Group in the early 1900's.  

Here is a description of Matisse's painting style in the Open window, Collioure 

 Matisse
Open Window, Collioure
1905


" In Open Widow, Collioure behind the free, spontaneous expression, one feels the invisible organic reality of nature, balanced against the demands of pictorial science"

In die Karoo: Sleutelfontein II

16*20"
Oil On canvas
Sold

Here is the second in the "Karoo Series" I really like the landscape of the Karoo. My intention is not to make a realistic representation of the landscape because then I could just take a picture with my camera and be done with it. But instead it is an interpretation which involves layering the paint, playing with textures and the push and pull of warm and cold colors.

Black and White Photography

King Protea: The National Flower of South Africa

8*10" Print on Silver Gelatin Paper

For sale for $20.

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Little Switzerland in the Drakensberge

8*10" Print on Silver Gelatin Paper

For sale for $20  

These prints are printed by hand from a 35mm negative. Yes, Old School. There is something mysterious about waiting for a print to appear in the developer, and then to patiently wait for the Stop Bath and Fixer before you can take it out in the light .... and really look at it. I can still smell the smells of a darkroom when I close my eyes.

In die Karoo: Sleutelfontein

16*20
Oil on Canvas
$150

While in South Africa last year we visited my uncles' farm Sleutel fontein. The beauty of the Karoo is so simple. It almost resembles the Prairies, but with cooler looking trees, like the one in the painting. I believe it is a Bloekom Boom.

In die Karoo

16*20"
Sold

Wow! Halt!
Life happens and then before I know it has almost been a month since I promised African Landscapes. Well better late than never. This painting is painted from a picture we took while driving in the Karoo. These huge Aloe-type trees were fascinating. And yes they are really as tall as a building.