Tag: Journal-keeping
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More Journal pages, August to December 2018
Our Garden Fountain. African Hoopoe Candle and Lamps, during a power failure. Orphan lamb feeding Purple Iris in my garden. Shearing time, Silvermere Apricot Blossoms and Yellow canary Glossy Ibis, Journal page Orange River Francolin -
A few more Journal pages
Peacock, in our Guinea fowl flock. 
The African Wild Cat, while pruning. 
Sweet Violets and the Roman Alphabet. -
New Art Journal
Coffee mug, squirrel and birds. 
Bloemfontein, Amici Caffe Bar, scene to paint. 
Sunday morning drive, views and wildlife. 
Sheep in the land, Blue Cranes & Ducks 
Sheep flock. Early morning photo shoot. -
Mini Journal
Even though I have been keeping journals always, I have started using small ones. One is in my handbag for on-the-road, and one is for short entries, when time is limited. Here is a selection from October. It is great fun keeping these, with some small sketches and a few quotes or notes from the day. I used the Paperblank journal
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Hello all, and Welcome to my Blog!
“swallows over stormberg spruit” sketched from my computer monitor
As a self-confessed addict of creative-Journal-keeping I begin this new adventure, in this new year of 2009, to share some of my life in this remote little corner of Africa. We are far from most places, but fortunately not the internet, and therefore not far from all the far flung readers out there who may share my interests and passions in life. So my hope is that you will join me on my visually orientated journey of exploration, and through my creative meanderings, get to enjoy it along with me.
For almost a year now, I have been visiting the sites of other creative bloggers, like Sparkletopia (the first one I found), and came to realize that it would be a great way for me to keep in touch with friends from all over the world.
The sketch above was the first that I painted direct from my Computer Monitor as you can see in the next image. This is not my normal painting table, but the computer table. For bigger paintings the monitor can be moved.
Over the years the high costs of printing photographs for painting, have prompted me to start painting directly from the monitor, and though I haven’t painted much in 2008; due to a death, a wedding & the writing of a book, the New Year holds great promise, and I invite you to visit my studio whenever you can.