Spring evening at The Pipe

Posted by Stephen Quirke on September 17, 2011 under Art, en plein air, painting, Strand Pipe beach, watercolor, watercolour | 4 Comments to Read

A spring evening at The Pipe.  Painted on 185gm Arches Cold Pressed – 280x190mm.

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A chilly evening at The Pipe

Posted by Stephen Quirke on June 28, 2011 under Art, en plein air, seascape, Strand Pipe beach, watercolor, watercolour | 2 Comments to Read

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

 

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A Wedding Gift

Posted by Stephen Quirke on June 18, 2011 under Art, en plein air, painting, seascape, Strand Pipe beach, watercolor, watercolour | 4 Comments to Read

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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“There – I’ve fixed it” at The Pipe

Posted by Stephen Quirke on March 18, 2011 under Art, en plein air, painting, seascape, Strand Pipe beach, watercolor, watercolour | 6 Comments to Read

Last year, someone in our municipality had a rush of blood to the brain and decided that The Pipe needed  a walkway to the beach.  So they got one of their friends – no I mean – they put the job out to tender and the contractor got busy.

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Saturday

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.

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family at The Pipe

Posted by Stephen Quirke on March 7, 2011 under Art, en plein air, figure, painting, seascape, Strand Pipe beach, watercolor, watercolour | Be the First to Comment

I had another long and enlivening chat at the pipe on Friday and had a chance to do this painting of the folks on the beach before having a quick goof and going home.  That is a word from my school days – “hey guys, lets go for a goof” (a swim).

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Friends chatting at The Pipe

Posted by Stephen Quirke on March 3, 2011 under Art, en plein air, figure, painting, seascape, Strand Pipe beach, watercolor, watercolour | 10 Comments to Read

This is Rian and Ivor chatting at The Pipe.

This is 280x180mm on 85gm Arches Cold Pressed.

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Constantia Demo

Posted by Stephen Quirke on March 1, 2011 under Art, Demonstration, Kogelbaai, painting, Strand Pipe beach, watercolor, watercolour | 6 Comments to Read

Last week at this time I was driving around Meadowridge, to find the venue for a watercolour demo.  The group was the Constantiaberg Art Society and I had offered to do the demo.  And what a friendly group of people they were.  Thank you so much all of you for the warm welcome you gave me.  I have not been painting much this year, as my lack of posting here attests and I must say I felt a little rusty.   But I decided to put this to the group and suggested that I would find a photo on my lap-top and paint from that, using my outdoor kit.  ”Lets all pretend we are  down at The Pipe”.

So here is my first piece.  I guess if I had been feeling more confident I would have done a single painting but allowed myself this start:

this was on 300gm Arches 370×280.  There is some fun stuff going on in the sky but overall mmm.  Ja well no fine!

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tête-à-tête at the Pipe – or should that be ‘à la Conduite’

Posted by Stephen Quirke on February 14, 2011 under Art, en plein air, figure, seascape, Strand Pipe beach, watercolor, watercolour | 2 Comments to Read

On Saturday I did not want to surf as I am nursing a cracked rib (from surfing).  So we all went for a swim and then Aura took a walk up the beach while Ethan and his mate went to play on the Supertube.  So I had an hour.

I found a place near this group of people chatting.

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Henrique

Posted by Stephen Quirke on January 15, 2011 under Art, en plein air, figure, painting, seascape, Strand Pipe beach, watercolor, watercolour | 4 Comments to Read

I had a surf this morning and we all went down again this afternoon.   The sea was quite messy, although the guys were out.  The rest of my family went for a walk down the beach and I decided to sit on the dune at the entrance to the beach to do a painting.  As I arrived Henrique, the surf coach, was there so I asked him if he would like to star in a watercolour.  And he would.  So here he is.

This is 380 x 560 mm on 185gm Arches Hot Pressed.

And he sat so nicely that I gave him the painting.

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