Innocence

This is my third watercolor! I think this technique is the most difficult in art to manage. Water is definitely not easy to control, if you get too impatient, all the pigments are mixed together with the water, and if you wait too much you can't mix the pigments, what a nightmare! BUT one day I will only concentrate on this technique, because the effects obtained are so amazing, you play with the transparency of the paper, which is not the case with none of the other techniques. This artwork is gone to France with Laurence who I met in Port Elizabeth.

Size: 27 x 38cm

Date: March 2006

Technique: watercolor

Isabella's drawing

You will see further the same little girl but realised in oil. I also enjoy drawing, it's the beginning of something everytime, it always gives the first impressions and feelings before you put colors on it, and that, as an artist, is the essence of creation.

Size: 25 x 35cm (more or less)

Date: January 2006

Technique: charcoal

Josie

First step: drawing

Date: February 2007

Size: 67cm x 47cm

Technique: Soft pastel

Josie

Next step

Josie

Portrait finished

Isabella

Little Isabella is captured doing what all children like to do and should be able to be ..."play and be happy"

Date: June 2006

Size: 50cm x 38cm (more or less)

Technique: Oil

Megane and Blanche

My first commission in South Africa was a request to do Megane's portrait, however she ideally wanted a portrait with her mother, Blanche, so thats what I did! The painting became more than a portrait but a memory for mother and daughter. A small request became a challenge not only because of the size of the painting,but essentially the patience to capture the inner beauty and personalities of these special friends.

Date: July 2006

Size: 150cm x 90cm

Technique: Oil