Posted by Stephen Quirke on October 24, 2011 under Art, Drawing, painting, portrait, watercolor, watercolour | 
This is Sam. She is the grand-daughter of my good friend and tip-top watercolourist Mary Serrurier. Sam models for a group of painters and offered to sit for me. So one afternoon in between meetings in town we had a quick session. OK portraits are hard and this is what I did from photos that I took. This took much longer than the hour I had sitting with Sam. Maybe its a bit over-worked. But I am happy with this.
This is on Arches Hot Pressed and is 380x280mm
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Posted by Stephen Quirke on September 16, 2011 under Art, Drawing, figure, painting, watercolor, watercolour |
Here is the drawing I did of the sermon where Jesus had lunch with Simon the Pharisee and the woman came in and washed his feet with tears and poured a bottle of perfume over them.
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Posted by Stephen Quirke on September 14, 2011 under Art, Drawing, en plein air, illustration |
I did these illustrations for a Christmas sermon using khoki pen, stencils and spray cans. Each is on a sheet made of 3×2 flip-charts, mounted on a sheet of plywood.
Angels attend the birth:
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Posted by Stephen Quirke on under Art, Drawing, en plein air, illustration |
I am sure you know the story that begins “A man had two sons…”:
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Here is a set of drawings I did with fat khoki pens to illustrate a sermon on the story of David and Goliath. Here is the practice on Goliath of Gath:
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Posted by Stephen Quirke on August 1, 2011 under Art, Drawing, en plein air, portrait |
Last night while Donovan was preaching from Acts 8 I did this sketch of the Peter Makapela’s friend.
Posted by Stephen Quirke on April 24, 2011 under Art, Drawing, figure, painting, The Passion, watercolor, watercolour |
This is the final painting for Friday. Joseph taking the body down to lay it in the tomb
watercolour on Arches 300gm 560×760
Posted by Stephen Quirke on April 16, 2011 under Art, Drawing, en plein air |
OK, you know how the best way to get someone to move is to wait until they look settled and then try to sketch them or paint them?
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Posted by Stephen Quirke on February 14, 2011 under Art, Drawing, en plein air, figure, Kalk Bay |
My resolve sometimes fails me. I lose heart. Last week I went through to Kalk Bay one afternoon to pay my gallery for framing. I had planned to sit and paint somewhere but got to the harbour as the fishing boats were returning. I took out my camera to take some photos but alas the batteries were flat. Not a problem. I had more recharged. mmm – not one held any charge. OK I thought – lets take some photos with my cell phone – but that soon filled out the memory card.
My friends on the Violet Glen came in loaded with snoek but and I stood and watched as they offloaded.
AND SO…
Eventually I reluctantly took out a little sketch-book and did these sketches. I was not going to post them – but feel like I should.
these are of a large boat – the ‘Alma Luce’
I have kept them small because the sketchbook fitted in my palm – mmm
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Posted by Stephen Quirke on January 1, 2011 under Art, Drawing, figure, painting, pencil sketch, portrait, watercolor, watercolour |
So we started closed out 2010 with the cousins in the Cape Town waterfront – throngs of people all peaceably enjoying company with friends to see in the new year. I returned to our table to find Margie and Tim drawing Torril – our friend from Norway so I sat next to her to do a quick sketch of Tim before he started moving.
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This is Sam. She is the grand-daughter of my good friend and tip-top watercolourist Mary Serrurier. Sam models for a group of painters and offered to sit for me. So one afternoon in between meetings in town we had a quick session. OK portraits are hard and this is what I did from photos that I took. This took much longer than the hour I had sitting with Sam. Maybe its a bit over-worked. But I am happy with this.
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