Amanzimtoti

Posted by Stephen Quirke on October 15, 2009 under Art, en plein air, KwaZulu-Natal, landscape, painting, seascape, watercolor, watercolour | 10 Comments to Read

here are two watercolours of the beach at ‘toti where I am working with a client and stayed overnight.  As I got to the beach a ski-boat was circling in the waves, which dwarfed the boat, waiting for a gap to go out to sea – round and round and then zoom – out dodging the breakers.  The first painting is captures the colours:

then I thought the composition a bit tame so I did this one:

After this I ran down the steps in the painting and had a swim in the gloriously warm Indian Ocean, pausing to check with a passing local that I was not going to eaten alive (“I don’t hope so..”)  heh heh.