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Posted by Stephen Quirke on April 27, 2013 under Art, Drawing, Family, figure, painting, portrait, watercolor, watercolour | 
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Here is a picture of my friends Douglas and Alicia with their two sons:
This is on a full sheet of Arches 300gm Cold Pressed (760×560 mm)
Posted by Stephen Quirke on January 7, 2013 under portrait, watercolor, watercolour | 2 Comments to Read
Here is the latest version of my portrait of Sinead.
This is 380 x 280 mm on Arches Hot Pressed, which is a nice smooth surface on which to work.
Posted by Stephen Quirke on January 5, 2013 under Art, painting, portrait, watercolor, watercolour | Be the First to Comment
This is how far I have got now. I have finally got the drawing right but am not so keen on the painting.
This is 280x380mm and is on Arches Cold Pressed. It feels a little overworked. Time to review the approach of Charlie Boy (Herr Reid).
Posted by Stephen Quirke on December 29, 2012 under Drawing, portrait, watercolor, watercolour | 2 Comments to Read
Here is a portrait of Sinead from one of her Matric Dance photos.
Posted by Stephen Quirke on October 24, 2011 under Art, Drawing, painting, portrait, watercolor, watercolour | 6 Comments to Read
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 August 1, 2011 under Art, Drawing, en plein air, portrait | 6 Comments to Read
Last night while Donovan was preaching from Acts 8 I did this sketch of the Peter Makapela’s friend.
Posted by Stephen Quirke on March 13, 2011 under Art, en plein air, painting, pencil sketch, portrait, seascape, Strand Pipe beach, watercolor, watercolour | 8 Comments to Read
Yesterday I attended a breakfast talk in the morning and did these sketches of the guys sitting around me:
Once I settled down I got some good likenesses.
Posted by Stephen Quirke on January 1, 2011 under Art, Drawing, figure, painting, pencil sketch, portrait, watercolor, watercolour | 4 Comments to Read
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.
Posted by Stephen Quirke on August 28, 2010 under Art, Drawing, figure, painting, portrait, watercolor, watercolour | 4 Comments to Read
OK so I have been dabbling in facebook. And if you think blogging sucks time out of your day, well, facebook is MUCH worse. much much MUCH worse. But… there is an up side. I have come across some amazing painters, some friendly people and one or two people who clearly have to get over themselves – mmm – delete friend. Anyway not to get too sidetracked…
Posted by Stephen on June 23, 2010 under Art, Drawing, en plein air, painting, portrait, watercolor, watercolour | Be the First to Comment
Last week after hiking up to view the snow in the mountains above Franschoek we went down to the town for a coffee before driving home. I was frustrated at going up with palette and paper but no brushes so I sat and sketched the people at our table. In the end I only had time to paint fair Sinead before everyone jumped up and headed home:
At first I was not going to post it but have decided to put all work up – so
It is not too bad I suppose.
Here is a photo of our lunch spot. It was all too vast to capture on film:
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