Thoughts on plein air painting in the Karoo, and news from my studio.
Learn landscape painting in the beautiful Karoo. I offer private oil painting lessons for individuals or groups in Adendorp and Graaff-Reinet. What I teach: Traditional representational landscape and still life oil painting. What you’ll learn in my lessons: The…
Free online oil painting classes I have launched a series of oil painting classes online where you can learn the basics of traditional representational landscape painting, with a contemporary twist. Find out more here.
The things I absolutely cannot paint without. This is a thorough list of the art supplies that I currently use for creating my paintings. None are the links are affiliate links. Let’s start with the paint I paint with South African paint for economic and…
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…
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…
Strauss & Co
Art Rooted in Nature: Evening Sale
25th June 2024
Thursday 18th & Friday 19th April 2024Fork & Farm, Stanford Two-day plein air landscape painting workshop. For this workshop, we will be focusing on taking the complexity of the landscape and simplifying it into basic shapes. Discover and develop practical…
Friday 28th July 3 – 6 pm
Saturday 29th July 10 am – 1 pm
Value studies are the key to successful representational painting. Value is how light or how dark something is. Establish the value relationships between the shapes in your composition. This gives you a very good chance of creating something that the viewer can…
How I find inspiration, and on working en plein air. I live in a BIG dramatic landscape that includes the Kleinrivier (Little River), Kleinriviersberg (Little River Mountain) and Akkedisberg (Lizard Mountain), abundant Fynbos flora, the leafy historic village of…
One of my artist bucket list items is being ticked off this year. I’ve been invited to exhibit with Jan and Sue Vingerhoets at their farm gallery at the Baardskeerdersbos Art Route on the 15th and 16th April 2023. For more information, visit the…
Here are a few things to bear in mind when you are deciding on a composition for your painting, and what to do when there’s no “obvious” view to paint.
What are the reasons to use a limited palette? And what limited palette can I use for landscapes? My limited palette of Zellen artists’ oil paint. Firstly, I’m a plein air oil painter, so I don’t paint in a studio very often. I carry my studio on my back, which…
9th August 2022 at The Zesty Lemon Restaurant, Sir Robert Stanford Estate, a plein air landscape painting workshop in the beautiful Overberg.
Monday morning painting classes in Stanford. More info here.
The full process from pencil sketch to oil original painting in the studio.
I’m pleased to announce that a series of six painting sessions will be starting next week Monday. The sessions will cover the painting fundamentals of value, colour and composition, and will include painting exercises in a sketchbook (or work on loose sheets if…
© Tracy Algar, Wandelpad 2. Oil on canvas, 30 x 20 cm.Wandelpad #2 is a plein air painting that I painted on the Stanford Wandelpad in spring last year I’d been anticipating this painting outing for a while. I’d scouted the location, checked the weather…
At the time I started painting this little Stanford landscape, I was walking this path daily. It’s a few month’s later as I post this here, and my Wandelpad walks have slacked off a bit. The past few months have been a time of tumultuous change, something…
The Dip. One of those iconic Stanford scenes.