Posted by Stephen Quirke on September 11, 2011 under Art, Betty's Bay, seascape, watercolor, watercolour | 
At last I have begun:
Each of the paintings is on a full sheet of 300gm Arches 300gm rough.
Hopefully tomorrow I will have a chance to progress this.
Here is how it looks today 24 September. This is a not a great photo – I had to climb up on a step ladder to get enough height to fit all three paintings in.
I have been out to Betty’s Bay again and have taken some photos in the late afternoon. It takes a while to become familiar with a new scene to paint.
To see how I am doing I put the paintings against my bookshelf and look at them from outside my studio – like this:
And here we are late on Wednesday 28 September 2011. Hey! the world didn’t end today!!! Phew – someone told me that Planet X was suppose to plough into planet Earth today. Bah! – Though I suppose we still have an hour of today left around here.
Anyway – here is the painting as it looks now:
or like this:
Posted by Stephen Quirke on July 8, 2011 under Art, painting, seascape, watercolor, watercolour |
We have the very best weather in our winter here in the Cape. And today was one of those beautiful warm, still days. I am not feeling so good so I went down The Pipe with my board but decided to paint instead. This is what I produced…
This is on 300gm Fabriano Artistico – Rough and is 380x560mm
Posted by Stephen Quirke on June 28, 2011 under Art, en plein air, seascape, Strand Pipe beach, watercolor, watercolour |
This evening I went down to see if there were any waves at The Pipe. Actually there was quite a nice wave but I really really wanted to paint. This had nothing to do with the icy North West wind. heh heh – mmm…
Here is the painting I did. A slightly newer view and one I would like to do again.
This is on 300 gm Arches Rough – a half sheet – 380 x 560mm
Posted by Stephen Quirke on June 18, 2011 under Art, en plein air, painting, seascape, Strand Pipe beach, watercolor, watercolour |
I have just attended the wedding of Warren and Pamela. They are a friendly couple in our church who have been dating for what seems like a long time. Warren sometimes surfs at the Pipe so I thought he would like a painting.
So yesterday I bought a couple of sheets of Arches 300gm rough. This is a half sheet (560x380mm)
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Posted by Stephen Quirke on May 22, 2011 under Art, Demonstration, Kogelbaai, painting, seascape, watercolor, watercolour |
Here is the painting – yep the same scene – I did for the Western Cape Watercolour Group yesterday.
It is on 300g Arches and is 380 x 560 mm (half sheet).
Doing the demo was such fun – what a nice group of people. Thanks to all of the organisers.
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Posted by Stephen Quirke on May 18, 2011 under Art, Demonstration, Kogelbaai, seascape, watercolor, watercolour |
The demo is tomorrow evening. So I am getting back in a watercolour mindset after focusing on workshops in the last week.
this is on a half sheet of Arches. I am cutting up my old paintings to practice on now. And the whole presentation takes 52 minutes. I did the sky with a 1 inch flat sable brush – zoop zoop zoop – ai
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Posted by Stephen Quirke on April 30, 2011 under Art, Demonstration, Kogelbaai, painting, seascape, watercolor, watercolour |
Here is the version from tonight’s practice. I have felt ill all day but really wanted to do this.
This is on Arches 300gm (good old 300gm) Cold Pressed and is 380 x 560mm.
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Posted by Stephen Quirke on April 29, 2011 under Art, Demonstration, Kogelbaai, painting, seascape, watercolor, watercolour |
Today I did more practice for my demo on the 17th. I want to complete a painting within 50 minutes, while I am talking about the learnings for teams. This took 1 hour 23 minutes, including the time I took to talk.
This is on Arches 300gm Cold Pressed and is 380x560mm
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Posted by Stephen Quirke on April 27, 2011 under Art, Demonstration, Kogelbaai, painting, seascape, watercolor, watercolour |
Here is the latest practice version for a demo I have been booked to do for the local business forum.
This is on Arches 185gm 560x380mm (a half sheet)
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Posted by Stephen Quirke on April 16, 2011 under Art, Kogelbaai, painting, seascape, watercolor, watercolour |
Here is one of the paintings I did leading up to the previous post on Kogelbaai.
This is 560x380mm on Arches Cold Pressed
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