Hybrid Halloween, and exhibition at Studio 41

I was recently involved in a group exhibition organised by ArtFarm titled Hybrid Halloween, and hosted at Studio41 in Cape Town. It was a really well put together show and I would like to thank Keda Gomes and Aveline Kyffin for inviting me to participate. Also, thank you to everyone who came along in support. Below are a couple of pictures from the event.

Intouch Framers, Cape Town

I recently picked up my art from Intouch Framers in Cape Town. This is the second time I have been to them and I am really impressed with the speed and quality of their work. The first time I went to them was about 2 months ago when I needed two of my artworks framed in two days. I knew it was a lot to ask, but they came through with an amazing product. 

Then again last week I needed two more frames quite urgently. Even with the busyness of the Cape Town Art Fair for which they were making a number of frames, they were able to squeeze me in and the result was impressive. I would really recommend them to anyone looking to get artworks framed at a reasonable price in Cape Town. Below are some images of my art that was framed by them .

To find out more about Intouch Framers, you can visit them at intouchframers.co.za.

Oil Painting Lesson 3: The Painting Begins

For yesterday's class I began painting my image. At first I was rather overzealous and painted the entire background in one go. However, the colour was too dark so I started over. I was advised to take a slower approach, by observing individual areas and to mix colours for that specific region. It's a slow process, but once you get the right colours it's quite rewarding.

Above: The sky last night, taken outside Frank Joubert.

The pictures below show me trying to mix the correct colours. The left image shows colour swatches which I hold up next to the reference image to give me an idea if I am getting the right colour.

Oil Painting Lesson 2: Mixing colours.

This week's painting class at Frank Joubert was rather challenging. It mainly involved mixing primary colours to form a neutral grey. 

It takes a lot of backwards and forwardsing of adding a bit of this colour, a bit of that colour, and so on and so forth. I managed to get a grey, but it kept either tending towards a yellow/grey or a blue/grey. 

The image I found to paint as my first picture was this one. It's going to be a bit of a challenge but it could look really cool when finished. As  you can see from the second image, I didn't get very far with my underpainting as I spent most of the time struggling with getting a grey.

Oil Painting Classes: Lesson 1

Last week Thursday I began an oil painting class at Frank Joubert art centre in Cape Town. Its an 8 week course taught by Anne Foale. For the first lesson all that was required of me was to spend the entire 2 hours drawing a green pepper, which you can see below.

 

Below are some of the things I needed to purchase for the course. Some paint brushes, three primary colours and white, and some turpentine. The oil paints are a Winton Phthalo Blue 30, Winton Permanent Rose 49, Lukas Lemon Yellow 210, and Lukas Titanium White 208.

        

Some dubious sketchbook art

For the past couple of months or so I have really wanted to improve my female figure drawing. I decided that instead of taking the typical life drawing approach to representing the female form, I would rather fuse some landscape art into the drawings.

The last drawing here was done whilst I was at Club Mykonos near Langebaan.

A teaser video of the comic "Lyon: The Dragon Heart"

A teaser of the first copy of "Lyon-The Dragon Heart". It is the first chapter of a comic I have been illustrating for the past 8 months, written by Massalo Araujo. Enjoy!

Lyon-The Dragon Heart from massalo on Vimeo.