Monday, April 30, 2007

Monday


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"Happy Face"

Saturday, April 28, 2007























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"African woman with earing"















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"At the Ruins"

Friday, April 27, 2007

Friday



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"Lost"

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Wednesday


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"Shaded Portrait"

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Tuesday


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"Boy"

Monday, April 23, 2007

Monday


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"Old woman"

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Sunday (What happened to Saturday)


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Gemsbok and Baobab

Friday, April 20, 2007

Friday's work


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"Peace"

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Thursday's work


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"Kylie"

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Tuesday


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"Day at the Races"
Completely made up image.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Monday, Monday, so good for me.


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"Bringing home the bacon"

It's amazing how hard the average woman works in Africa. All over the world actually.
I certainly couldn't carry 25kg of mealie meal (Maize meal) for 5 kilometres on a normal hot African day.
The King Of Swaziland just chose his 13th wife to-day. I don't think that I could handle 13 wives.

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Saturday's Effort


Not so much of an effort to-day with too much going on. Lyn, my wife had to go shopping and therefor couldn't leave me by myself. (I'm on oxygen 24/7). Syd came arround to sit with me. We watched the Grand National on TV. What a race. Forty horses started and ten finished. I think that I will try and paint a couple of images from the race sometime in the future.
Meanwhile all I have to offer for to-day is some old biddy trying to understand why some fool would exhibhit tha piece of art in the pic.
"Time"
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Friday, April 13, 2007

Friday's Work


I called this "T-Shirt Kid".
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What would it be like to have never known what it is to eat off plates with knives and forks, to sit down in front of a flat screen and watch football or cricket, to go to the fridge, to switch on the lights when it gets dark and to get comfortable in your own bed?

Funny eh?

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Thursdays offering


To-day I finished a painting of some kids running down a country lane after just having finished school.

On the news some b.....ds broke into a home to rob it and shot a two year old child dead because it started to cry. I do not live in a normal society. The child was visiting from Nigeria with her mother. One death, one TV, Hi-Fi and a cell phone. It happens every day here.
Maybe because there is no death penalty.


200x150 Oil on board "After School"

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

I have been working on one a day for the past week and have realy enjoyed the chalenge.
What cracked me up was the process of creating a blog and uploading the images.
I didn't get chance to describe each painting before it was loaded and therefor there is absolutely no comments next to the work. Maybe as time goes on I'll get all my ducks in a row and you will hopefully be able to enjoy my work a little more.
I look forward to your comments. If they are not the kind of comments I want to hear, I will be selective.
One thing that I would like you to bear in mind is that most of the kids featured in my paintings go to bed without food. When I said "go to bed", most of them have never had the experience of sleeping on a formal bed, probably a couple of sacks thrown together.
If you give any money to charities in Africa, please make sure that they go directly to the establishment that they are meant to go to. Thereare so many people that cash in on the victims of hunger andpoverty. Big salaries to run the charities etc.
Sleep well.