Cable Car, Table Mountain

Last year we spent many weeks painting on Signal Hill. This was another small painting done from a short way along the path leading off the car park. I have also done a larger variation of this view which I will post at a later date.

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Barbara Pask said…

This is wonderful. Everything reads just right, the mountains recede in the distance and I love your foreground tree. Wonderful branches.

Friday, 4 February 2011 at 19:10:00 GMT+2

Carol said…

Thank you Barbara. I am beginning to get the feeling that all my paintings look alike and think I need to work on that :)

Sunday, 6 February 2011 at 12:15:00 GMT+2

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Cheval Voyeur Farm

The last few "quickies" from Cheval Voyeur Farm.

This was a quick oil while there was still quite a lot of water around.

A charcoal sketch done while hiding in the bushes trying to keep out of the sun!

The Courtyard

The Courtyard Hotel was the venue for our painting out in the open for a while. The painting of Deveils Peak was painted at the same location. I need more practice with buildings! We are painting in the Company Gardens at the moment and I am getting lots of practice in. Strange how the window is not centred in this building, but that is the way it is.

Playing with Pastels

Having bought soft pastels to use with water colour (a demo by Cherry Nichol) I had the urge to play, using a technique I had seen done by Heather Selby. I used soft pastels on water colour paper, later discovering that you should actually use hard pastels first then the soft on top! I also had problems with the lighter colours becoming muddy but later discovered that you should use fixative on the dark colours before going into the light! But this is how we learn! Next time I will know what to do! I don't normally copy out of magazines but as this was just an experiment, I did.
I then used some grey home made paper, soaked it and covered the pastel portrait with the saturated hand made paper, pressing lightly to transfer a ghost image onto the wet paper. Well it didn't work. The grey was not right. I didn't even bother to photograph it. After fixing the original pastel portrait I then used a sheet of white watercolour paper and soaked that. I covered the pastel a…

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