Are you trapped in a monochrome palette

Posted by Stephen Quirke on March 10, 2012 under Demonstration, Kogelbaai, video, watercolour | 5 Comments to Read

Last week Carol sent me an e-mail in which she made it quite clear that no painting since 01 January was just not good enough!!!  She completed the note by saying “Don’t make me come over there!”  Now just to understand, it would be wonderful to show her and her husband around this side.  But I could tell this was a more serious business.  heh heh  (o:

Well that got me going.

At the same time I decided it was time to market my “life in light and colour” presentation.  So I designed a short YouTube video to talk about what I was trying to achieve with the presentation.  While I was working I lost my camera in an absent-minded  moment.  So I had to make a plan.  This is the rig I created.  I was going to use bubble-gum to complete the jury-rigness but that could have been messy for my android:

Here is the video I created – eventually:

And here are the paintings.  Each of these had to fit into a 10 minute video so they were done fast.

Touw River Watercolour part – 2

Posted by Stephen on April 1, 2010 under Art, en plein air, landscape, painting, video, watercolor, watercolour | 12 Comments to Read

And here is the second part:
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