Category: Rural Life & Karoo Landscape
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Shearer – 1
Day 7, Everyday in May challenge 2016. One of the two shearers we had last week, to shear a few grown lambs. -
Shearer – 2
Day 8, Every day in May challenge 2016,. The second of the 2 shearers that came to shear a few grown lambs. -
Karoo landscape & windmill
Day 5, Everyday in May Challenge 2016. Little Karoo scene north of Bethulie in the Freestate. -
Grootevallei
This was my first order for 2016, a scene on the road from Knapdaar to our farm Silvermere. A view of the valley looking north over the game farm, Grootevallei. The painting was to be a gift for the regular hunter from Sweden, Carl Piper.
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Our July 2015 Trans-Karoo trip. -Paintings, part one.
It is about eight years since our last trip through our beloved karoo. So we took a short two day trip from, Colesburg to Hopetown, Prieska, Vanwyk’s Vlei, Canarvon and Loxton, where we spent the night. The next day we meandered home via Three Sisters, Murraysburg, Richmond, Middleburg and Steynsburg. The main purpose of the trip, was to find painting inspiration & to take a new batch of photos. It was a lovely trip, and these few are the first batch of paintings. More will follow in due course.
Dawn on the road between Colesburg & Philipstown. 
Derelict Farm House 
The Road Ahead, near Hopetown. 
Lonely Windmill, near Prieska. 
Love this old ruin, near Van Wyksvlei. It could make a perfect stage set. -
Karoo
Silvermere, farm road. 
Windmill & Pepper Tree 
Sunset Windmill. 
Moonrise reflection, with windmill. 
Windmill & water tank. 
Hill & house. -
Windmills of the Karoo
Windmill sketch When windmills propel gently through the breezes in lazy rotations, or spin frenetically facing into the strong winds that sweep across the karoo plains, I am often mesmerized by them. They knit together the vast expanses of earth and sky, in perfect stately harmony. Like elegant sentinels, windmills tower over the vast expanses of veld that surround them. They have held a deep fascination for me ever since I first settled here many years ago, and have featured quite prominently in most of the karoo landscape paintings I’ve done over the years. Here are 3 small veld scenes and one rough sketch, to add to the catalogue of windmill studies done time and again.
Teebus & Koffiebus with windmill. 
Dreunberg Windmill 
Farm road & windmill. -
Salted Lambs
A little experiment with salt to achieve a different texture, on this sketch of 3 lambs.
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Karoo farm Landscape, between Hopetown and Strydenburg.
Karoo Farm Landscape, between Hopetown and Strydenburg. Karoo Farm Landscape, between Hopetown and Strydenburg. Karoo Farm Landscape, between Hopetown and Strydenburg.
