Bass Lake morning
Posted by Stephen Quirke on December 19, 2011 under Art, Betty's Bay, painting, watercolor, watercolour | 
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Bass Lake as the sun rises. Watercolour on 300gm Arches Rough (about 280x760mm)
Painting at Caves Beach with Tim and Ben
Posted by Stephen Quirke on December 12, 2011 under Art, en plein air, Kogelbaai, watercolor, watercolour | Read the First Comment
Posted on 27 November 2010 – I have re-posted this because for some reason I could not open the post.
Betty’s Bay Triptych
Posted by Stephen Quirke on November 20, 2011 under Art, Betty's Bay, painting, watercolor, watercolour | 7 Comments to Read
And here is how it looks on the eve of delivery – A BEEG job – but fun!
Here is another triptych of the view down the beach at Betty’s Bay looking toward Dawidskraal.
These are painted on full sheets of Arches 300gm rough – each sheet is 760x560mm
Sam
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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Betty’s Bay Commission
Posted by Stephen Quirke on October 23, 2011 under Art, Betty's Bay, painting, watercolor, watercolour | 9 Comments to Read
On Thursday 10 November, here is how the two triptychs look:
Version 1:
Version 2:
Saturday 5 November: I touched up quite a bit – here is how it looks:
Sunday 30 October: here is how it looks now. This is pretty much it, there will be touch-ups:
Each of the sheets is 300gm Arches Rough – 760x560mm
And I was listening to a selection of music by Haydn.
Bass Lake on a lazy day
Posted by Stephen Quirke on October 11, 2011 under Art, Betty's Bay, en plein air, painting, watercolor, watercolour | 10 Comments to Read
This is Bass Lake in Betty’s Bay, from the Eastern end.
It is painted on 300gm Arches cold pressed (180x290mm)
Figure
Posted by Stephen Quirke on September 18, 2011 under Art, figure, watercolor, watercolour | 6 Comments to Read
Tonight’s work – now I am going squint and can’t see what I am doing anymore.
You can see it was still wet when I took the photo. The graininess is from my French Ultramarine which grew a fungus in the palette because it stood too long – and it was sealed so it stayed damp – and this seemed to chow all the binder – gum arabic or whatever it was.
I will see if it needs touch ups tomorrow
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.
Lunch with Simon
Posted by Stephen Quirke on September 16, 2011 under Art, Drawing, figure, painting, watercolor, watercolour | 6 Comments to Read
Here is the drawing I did of the sermon where Jesus had lunch with Simon the Pharisee and the woman came in and washed his feet with tears and poured a bottle of perfume over them.
Betty’s Bay Commission
Posted by Stephen Quirke on September 11, 2011 under Art, Betty's Bay, seascape, watercolor, watercolour | 2 Comments to Read
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:
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