The Lion Park is a popular tourist attraction nearby which I’ve taken numerous friends to and the highlight for them is always playing with the lion cubs. They make for good reference pics!
Water Colour
Danger
Ideas seldom arrive in their complete fullness when I start out a drawing of this sort. Mostly I have no idea what I will create. As one works, the ideas flow, a break for tea, then a return for a fresh look and more to add. So the order of creation ran something like this: [...]
Tagged: bomb, Cartoon, Coral, Creatures, Drawing, eels, Fish, Kelp, Mines, Octopus, Sea, Seaweed, Water Colour
Sketching at Liebermann’s Pottery
Saturday morning was spent at Liebermann’s Pottery painting. A good number of sketchers turned up this time. One even traveling from as far off as Pretoria! Finding it really exciting seeing enthusiastic artists join the group. I was so inspired by the Old Gas Works building I didn’t even get round to sketching any of [...]
Tagged: Liebermanns Pottery, Old Gas Works, Painting, Sketch, Water Colour
Prussian Green
Some time ago I bought someones old collection of watercolour palettes (ice cube trays) with lots of paint still in them at a bargain sale. Of course I was not interested in the palettes, but the paint left in them. One of the colours I transferred to my pallette was Prussian Green – which I’ve [...]
Tagged: Birds, Cartoon, Colour, Green, palette, Water Colour