Herman Pekel Workshop

 All these paintings were completed at a workshop with Herman Pekel. What a wonderful artist and tutor Herman is. I have learned a great deal. Oils are generally not my medium, but I have highly enjoyed the experience.

Winter auf dem Lande

Winter auf dem Lande  Watercolour Size 38 x 28 cms.
This painting is in memory of a wonderful photographer & artist Franklin.

Lavender Fields

Lavender Fields Watercolour 38 x 28 cms
This painting is in memory of a wonderful photographer & artist Franklin. The lavender photo is by Franklin, but I added few poppies, which are a remembrance symbol.

Spring Greeting

Snowdrops Watercolour.
I sprinkled some sand at the bottom for texture and made it stick to the WC paper with Rice Glue

Fiddler with a Puppet Show Staromestsky Namesti Prague

Staromestsky Namesti, Prague Watercolour 28 x 38 cms
I  wanted to paint this photo for a while.  It was a labour of love which taken many hours and turned out  to be quite a scurrilous painting, with compositional and perspective downfalls.        

 One less in the “hard basket”  though.

The Statue in the middle of the square is of a religious reformer Jan Hus, who for his beliefs, was burned at the stake in Constance. Staromestsky Namesti is known for the famous Prague Astronomical Clock, the Gothic Tyn Church and a baroque St. Nicholas Church.

 

Outback Shack in Victoria, Australia

Watercolour, Size 38 x 28 cms
Somewhere in Victoria.  Inspiration was a PmP photo by Robyn L.

Left & Forgotten, Bells Line Rd, NSW Australia

Watercolour 38 x 28 cms
 This forgotten truck was left in the yard at a disused petrol pump on Bells Line Road, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
 What's its fate?
P.S. am afraid a bit of German has crept into the heading under the painting.