by Alet | Feb 12, 2021 | Arts and crafts, Painting
For a few years now, I’ve been planning to honour the women who have played or are still playing a role in my journey of spiritual growth. The first few were not hard to choose as they guided or encouraged me on the first steps. Nowadays there are so many Christian...
by Alet | Oct 9, 2020 | Arts and crafts, Painting
Painting this scene on the Gravesend Riverside was quite an experience! It brought to mind the adage: “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread”. Especially if you attempt to do it in watercolours. But, as our Gravesend Art Group –...
by Alet | Feb 11, 2016 | Arts and crafts, Painting
Day 3 and we are visiting our children in sunny South Africa. What other subject to paint than this delightful little girl who came to work with her mother – especially to meet the visiting ugogo (grandmother) Of course Trisha was never going to sit for a...
by Alet | Feb 10, 2016 | Arts and crafts, Painting
Day 2: Painting miniatures was still very new to me. Here I tried an approximately 10x10cm pencil sketch on handmade paper. The subject: a sleeping warthog, seeing that I was in the South African Bushveld and found this an unusual take on a well-known inhabitant. My...
by Alet | Feb 9, 2016 | Arts and crafts, Painting
I started on my birthday, 9 February 2016, with a challenge to produce one miniature painting per day for a year… Seeing that 2016 is a leap year, that means 366 mini paintings. The traditional miniature painting size is about 10x10cm, and portraits (that were...
