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WHEN I LIVED IN DUBAI I ATTENDED THE ARTS CENTRE THERE, AND SPENT MANY HAPPY HOURS EXPERIMENTING WITH DIFFERENT PAINTING TECHNIQUES AND STYLES.
I THOUGHT I WOULD DO MUCH MORE WHEN I RETIRED, BUT IN FIVE YEARS I HAVE NOT YET STARTED THE FIRST PAINTING - TOO BUSY!! THOSE PAINTINGS THAT I STILL HAVE ARE FEATURED HERE - SOME OF THEM ARE FOR SALE, OTHERS I WILL NOT PART WITH...
UPDATE 1-1-11
I HAVE NOW FINALLY JOINED AN ARTCLASS AND AM AGAIN HAPPILY INVOLVED IN GETTING COLOURS ON PAPER, FORGETTING EVERYTHING AROUND ME.
NEW WORK WILL BE ADDED FROM TIME TO TIME.
SOME OF IT IS FOR SALE
(SEE ALSO THE PAGE OF ILLUSTRATIONS FOR MY BOOKS ELSEWHERE ON THIS SITE)
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 A VERY EARLY PEN DRAWING OF A CHESTNUT BRANCH
ONE OF THE VERY FIRST OIL PAINTINGS
THE MOSQUE IN THE BURAIMI OASIS
I DID THE COURSE 'REALISTIC PAINTING' - THE NEXT FOUR PAINTINGS ARE OF THAT COURSE
DURING THE SILK PAINITNG COURSE I DID THE ILLUSTRATIONS FOR THE CHILDREN'S STORY ABOUT DENIS THE DUGONG
THE SQUID, WHICH I ONCE SAW WHILE SNORKELING, WAS A MIRACLE OF CHANGING COLOURS.
AFTER MY FATHER DIED I NEEDED TO PAINT SOMETHING IN OILS, TO REGAIN MY INNER BALANCE. NOT THE GREATEST PAINTING BUT VALUABLE TO ME.
THE WATER COLOUR PAINTING COURSE: THIS WAS THE EXERCISE IN ROUND SHAPES, IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MONOCHROME BUT I COULD NOT RESIST THE GREEN SPROUT!
FRONT COVER PICTURE FOR THE CHILDREN'S BOOK YAWI THE WILDCAT - IN COLOUR CRAYONS
MIXED MEDIA - WATER COLOUR WITH TRANSPARENT PAPER AND CRAYON. AFTER A PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANS LANTING
ONE TEACHER SAID: YOU SHOULD TRY TO PAINT BIG - AND IT WAS GREAT FUN TO FORGET ABOUT DETAILS
JUST THINGS I FOUND ON DESERT WALKS - THIS ONE AND THE NEXT ONE ARE CALLED 'DESERT FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
I started with a watercolour painting course in sept 2010 - these are some of the year's products: 'from the garden'
THERE IS A PRETTY ROAD THROUGH A FOREST NEARBY THAT LEADS TO A VALLEY WITH ROLLING HILLS PLANTED WITH SUNFLOWERS OR CORN, AND LINED WITH WILDFLOWERS - FAVOURITE DOGWALKING LANE
AFTER A PHOTO OF THE NAARDERMEER IN HOLLAND
POPPIES AND MUSTARD SEED - A CHEERFUL COMBINATION
(GIVEN AWAY)
A FUNNY FANTASY FISH
on my daily dog walks I pass by old vines that - with a little imagination- turn into all sorts of creatures. the paintings are done on printed photographs of the vines in winter: This is a little dancer
and this a firespitting dragon
a proud cockerl
and a one-legged dancer
BANANA FLOWER
THIS IS THE START OF A LONGTERM PROJECT, CALLED 'THE ANIMALS WENT IN TWO BY TWO' AFTER I DID TWO OWLS (GIVEN AWAY) AND TWO BADGERS, YEARS AGO, i HAVE PICKED UP AGAIN AND HERE ARE SOME NEW ONES
SHREWS ON A PROTEA FLOWER
PROBABLY TOADS
JUMPING WHALES
FLWYING HERONS
PARROTS ON A DEAD TREE
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