Pencils are used almost exclusively on high quality Paper and on completion the drawing is sealed.
Pastels can be used on a variety of surfaces but a stiff board seems to work best.
Multi media is a combination of two or more (sometimes as many as five or six) materials to achieve a desired effect.
Boats at Arniston About 20 km north-east of Cape Agulhas is the holiday village of Arniston and it’s historical neighbour, the historical fishing village of Kassiesbaai. There is a small “harbour” for the fishing boats in Arniston, owned and managed by the locals. Out of season, in bad weather and when the fish aren’t biting, […]
The grand age of steam has long passed us by. All that remains of the steam train era are mainly those engines and train sets maintained and run by private individuals and companies who have a real passion for steam. They have the skills and financial resources to restore, renovate, and maintain these huge, smoking […]
On the rail line from Caledon to Protem – Western Cape – South Africa – PD441 Long ago, (around 2011) I used to build dioramas using card, MDF board, clay, dyed sea sand and tubes of glue. It was painstaking work and the disadvantage of the cardboard was that it was far too fragile to […]
A portrait in oil pastels – PP442 There is a concept in management called the competency pyramid, I’m sure you know it – It starts off where you are unconsciously incompetent (you don”t even know that you don’t know what you’re doing) and ends at the top of the pyramid (where else) where you are […]