Winter has hit us, and while I’m not crazy about the chilly toes, I’m quite excited about all the opportunities for new clothes combinations. A little boy asked me about my favourite colour the other day, and I told him that I mostly like colours teamed up with others. (Poor kid – he picked the …
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Pink, silver, grey
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Making Friday: Ceramics
I’m still loving my weekly ceramics class, and these guys are the first of the bunch to come out of the kiln. Fingers crossed the rest don’t explode so I can eventually line them up in more or less the way I painted them before I began 🙂
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Flowering palette
One of the succulents on my rooftop studio garden started flowering this week. It’s not my usual set of colours, but I kind of love this palette of silvery greys and orange-y pinks. My winter wardrobe always tends towards the greys and blacks, and I’m kind of dreading heading in that direction this year, and …
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#cellphonesarethenewsmoking
I sketched these two outside Jason Bakery while they waited for their takeaway coffee. #cellphonesarethenewsmoking
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Making Friday: Half Square update
A while back, I blogged about a very exciting project I am working on with Spier Architectural Arts, and now it’s all gathering momentum, for the big Reveal on 8 May. I spent my Making Friday working on my giant tiled panel, and while I took lots of pics, I can’t show the full design …
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Making Friday: Light dots
Sometimes, when you’re at your desk, pen poised, but not sure what you want to do, you’ve just got to use what you’ve got. On Friday, what I had was a scattering of of light coming through the blinds onto my drawing pad. It’s all about making a start, and it may not result in …
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OH Tours: Fagan Residence
On Thursday last week, Paul and I were lucky enough (along with 120 others) to get onto the OH tour of Gawie and Gwen Fagan’s iconic home. These are the photos I took. Gawie Fagan has been in private practice in Cape Town as an architect since 1964, and his buildings have  contributed substantially to the …
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Making Friday – Monday Ceramics
I’ve mentioned here and there that these days, I start my week with a couple of hours in a ceramics class with Louise Gelderblom, where I’m really having fun. A couple of weeks ago, after sketching lots of little footed pot-bellied little objects, I painted this row of interesting shapes, and decided that I’d spend …
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On the way in and on the way back
It’s great having a phone on my camera, as I can take pics of things I spot on my walk to the studio in the morning, and on the way home, too. Today’s batch: This morning (above): colours on a pole set in concreteoutside the garage on Kloof Street (to stop people parking on the …
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