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Leeb Street, Adendorp
I was really itching to start painting when I started this one. It a very hot day during our second week in Adendorp. There were cicadas in the trees, Tom & Fred (the pets) were lounging in the shade. I put on a big sun hat and headed off left out of the gate.
A short way down the road I saw the painting. The sun shimmered on the dusty tar road ahead. Lovely shade from a thorn tree splattered across the road.
I took this photograph for reference and retreated back to the shade of the house to sketch it out.
Sketched out and blocked in. By this stage I was intrigued with the way the cold wax medium was behaving. The hot temperatures make it a little more liquid. There are definitely possibilities to be explored there.
Adjusting the distant and lighter foliage with lighter greens.
Reinforcing the darks and working on the edges within the painting.
Here I am with my nearly finished painting, standing in the view that I am painting.
And this is the final painting, available from MY SHOP with free shipping within South Africa.
I’m enjoying exploring the neighbourhood in our new village. Visually it is very different from the lush greens of Stanford in the Western Cape. On sunny days (most days around here) the colours are quite washed out and the light/dark contrast is heightened.
I’ve been collecting reference photographs everywhere I go, and making notes about good plein air painting locations.
Leeb Street, Adendorp
Oil on board
24 x 24 cm
UnframedR2,100.00 -
Greetings from Graaff Reinet!
Hello there from a sunny and warm Graaff Reinet. It couldn’t be more different here today than the day we packed up and the morning we left from Stanford.
We packed a 4-metre long trailer with pretty much everything we own while it hailed and rained on the Sunday. The next morning, with a cat in a cage, a dog at Johannes’s feet (I was driving because I have the licence that allows pulling a double axled trailer), we set off through the wind and rain and hail that accompanied us most of the way, on an epic twelve and a half hour drive at 80 km/h to Graaff Reinet.
We were happy to arrive, as you can well imagine.
The next week or so was a jumble of moving in, unpacking, taking the trailer to Craddock. Then followed organising the house build, a quick, small, wooden house project that will see us in our own place by the end of the year!
The image above is the magnificent view of Spandaus Kop from our plot.
There will most definitely be plein air painting workshops offered right here as soon as we are settled in.
And here are a few more photographs from Graaff Reinet and Adendorp from the past few weeks. I’m really lapping up the scenery.