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
Unframed

R2,100.00

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