Barbara Philip

Tag: Guinea Fowl

  • EDM. Every Day in May challenge, 2018

    EDM. Every Day in May challenge, 2018

    Cape robin-chat, eating cheese.
    Robin eating cheese, Cape robin-chat, Cossypha caffra
    Dirt road with puddles on the farm
    Silvermere farm road after rain
    Blue Lavender, Plumbago & Rosemary.
    Blue flowers in my garden. Lavender, Plumbago & Rosemary.
    Mountain Reedbuck, Mpumalanga
    Mountain Reedbuck, (Redunca Fulvorufula) on a misty & rainy day on Buffelskloof Nature Reserve, Mpumalanga.
    Acacia by the roadside. A.Sieberiana. Road to Groblersdal.
    Tree by the roadside. Acacia Sieberiana.
    Portrait of our son, John.
    Portrait of John on his Birthday
    Balearica regulorum, Grey Crowned Crane,
    Grey Crowned Crane, Balearica regulorum,
    Fence and gate on the ridge
    Gate on the Hill
    The Reds of autumn in my garden.
    Autumn fruits and leaves. Tomatoes, Chillis, Rose-hips & Leaves of the Virginia Creeper.
    Karoo farm with single sheep
    Lone sheep in Karoo Veld
    Road through the pine Forest, Buffelskloof,
    Buffelskloof Pine Forest. Mpumalanga
    Portrait of Tony Fitt.
    Remembering dear Uncle Tony Fitt
    Tea-set, Blue, Mother's Day, Remembering my Mum.
    Mum’s Blue Tea-set, Mother’s Day.
    Farm sunset, with puddle reflections.
    Silvermere Sunset and puddles after rain
    Portrait of John & Chloë
    Chloë and John’s Birthday Portrait. Grand daughter and Grandpa sharing a tender moment.
    Pregnant Ewe
    Expectant Ewe, lambing season, Silvermere.
    Sagittarius serpentarius, 'The archer of snakes'
    Secretary Bird, Sagittarius serpentarius
    Eucalyptus tree and shadows on farm road.
    Farm Road with Gumtree shadows
    Cat portraits, of my Brother's cats.
    Mana & Rufus, my brother’s cats.
    Pentecost Journal Page
    The Doves of Pentecost
    Windmill and farm track. Karoo
    Karoo, Road through Veld to the Windmill.
    Old Farm Boots. Sketchbook
    Sketchbook, Old Farm Boots
    Floral wallpaper.
    Commemorating Chelsea Flower Show 2018. Floral wallpaper. On homemade paper.
    Orphan Lambs
    Hansie Lambs, Orphans.
    Houses on the street, Burgersdorp
    The forgotten houses on Buitekant St. Burgersdorp
    White-breasted Cormorant. Phalacrocorax lucidus
    White-breasted Cormorant, drying his wings, Loch Logan, Bloemfontein.
    Farm dam at sunset
    Sunset over Farm Dam. Silvermere
    Farm windmill repairs.
    Windmill Repairs, on Silvermere
    Guinea Fowl at feed time
    Feeding Guinea Fowl
    Pretty mama cow and calf
    Clown-faced cow and calf
    Windmill in Kalahari veld
    Kalahari Karoo, between Prieska & Vanwyksvlei
  • Christmas 2017, final paintings, – maybe !

    Christmas 2017, final paintings, – maybe !

    Christmas lamb card
    Little Lamb Christmas Card.

    May our dear Lord bless your Christmas and guide you through the New Year. Lots of love to all my Family and Friends who visit this site.

    “Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. ” Psalm 95, 6 & 7

    Five Guinea Fowl
    Christmas guinea-fowl

    This was painted for a client who is decorating his office with Guinea Fowl artwork. He already bought 2 others that were available in the bird gallery.

     

  • A Trio of Orders

    A Trio of Orders

    Styger Farm House. 7may10. 700 x 500mm watercolour.

    It has been impossible to link these three paintings with a theme, other than that they are the latest big orders that have challenged me since the last post was written. All are completed and have gone off to the respective clients. I did not schedule an exhibition this year, so have been blessed by these 3 good orders. How bountiful is the Lord in taking care of our needs!

    Karoo landscape with Guinea Fowl, 21may10. Watercolour, 700 x 500mm.
    Eighteen Animals Required. 23june10. Watercolour, 700 x 500mm.




  • Feeding The Birds

    Feeding The Birds

    The regular ritual of feeding the birds inspired this latest set of pictures.


    Sketch of The Birds Feeding
    Sketch of The Birds Feeding


    Several years ago we raised guinea fowls from eggs found in the Lucerne lands, and rescued them before the tractor went over their nests. We set them under broody hens, which successfully reared the large clutches of young guineas. When they grew up, they re-joined the wild flocks that live around here. But they always return when they get hungry, and many of the other weavers, sparrows and doves have enthusiastically taken to the daily feeding and arrive in large numbers to mingle with the guinea fowl.


    Three Guinea Fowl arriving for feeding time
    Three Guinea Fowl arriving for feeding time


    A quote from the Evangelical priest and scholar John Stott who wrote a sermon series called; “The Birds our Teachers”.

    “Jesus himself referred to birds in his famous Sermon on the Mount. According to the old English version he said ‘consider the fowls of the air’, but in basic English this is a command to ‘watch birds’. When Martin Luther, the great 16th century reformer, got to this verse in his commentary on the Sermon on the Mount, he became quite lyrical. He wrote: ‘Let the little birds be your theologians … We have as many teachers and preachers as there are little birds in the air’. So I’ve sometimes said in rather jocular fashion that I’m developing a new science called ‘orni-theology’, – the theology of birds.”


    Feeding the Birds (50x70cms)
    'Feeding The Birds', (50 x 70 cms)Watercolour on Saunders Waterford.



    Overheard In An Orchard


    One Guinea at feeding time
    Single Guinea waiting for the seed


    Said the Robin to the Sparrow
    “I would really like to know
    Why these anxious human beings
    Rush about and worry so.”

    Said the Sparrow to the Robin
    “Friend I think that it must be
    That they have no Heavenly Father
    Such as cares for you and me.”

    –Elizabeth Chaney – 1859