W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm
The road I take to visit a friend in Hillside (Tarlton, Gauteng, South Africa)
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Friday, April 17, 2015
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Winter is looming
W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm
The season has changed and we are into lovely autumn days, but here in Tarlton (Gauteng, South Africa), some trees are already in winter mode, having shed most of their leaves. I feel it’s a bit early, maybe a severe winter ahead?
Sunday, April 5, 2015
Such Geraniums!
Memory sketch – W & N watercolours on Bockingford 300gsm
Such geraniums! It does not become us poor mortals to be vain—but, really, my geraniums!
- Mary Mitford, ‘Our Village’
Geraniums in a tall Everite pot that I used to have in my previous garden (Tarlton, Gauteng, South Africa), from the days before Asbestos was banned in South Africa in 2008. These pots were extremely popular in South Africa and had a perfect surface for painting, either with PVA or enamel paints. Painted with PVA, they would weather into a lovely vintage look, getting more beautiful as time passed. I’m just wondering what the company Everite produces now….?
Asbestos once accounted for three percent of the value of South Africa’s minerals. South Africa was previously the fifth largest supplier of chrysotile, produced 97% of the world’s crocidolite and 100% of all amosite.
Friday, April 3, 2015
En route to Magaliesburg
W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm
Whenever I go to Magaliesburg (Gauteng, South Africa) just 13km from us, I choose to take a short-cut through Spring Farm and although it is a gravel road, I do away with lots of traffic and getting stuck behind trucks on their way to Rustenburg or Botswana and, to top it all, I see lots of wildlife. It’s a route we used to take with the horses during my horse riding days.
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