Pincushion #638

Daily painting #638 6"x6" ink and acrylic on primed board

I felt like experimenting and playing with some other materials today so I hauled out my inks and acrylic paint. A totally different feel to my lush oils but I had such fun and I really like the outcome! It just reminds me that I need to find time to 'play' and experiment more....2016 I have big plans for you! 

Purchase paintings at Heidi Shedlock Fine Art
(Click on the link to view available daily paintings)

Opening red protea #637

Daily painting #637 6"x8" oil on primed canvas panel

The red protea was still in my studio. While it certainly hasn't wilted in the heat, it has started to open up really quickly. But I am hopeful...last night we had the first little rainfall in ages. The smell of the rain falling on the heat scorched earth was simply heavenly! It is still overcast this morning although extremely humid after the little bit of rain, and I am hoping we have not seen the last of it. While a little shower is certainly respite for our burnt dry grass and empty swimming pools, we need the rain to bucket down in our catchment areas and on the farms. So hoping for more rain....

Purchase paintings at Heidi Shedlock Fine Art
(Click on the above link to view available daily paintings)

Red protea #636

Daily painting #636 6"x8" oil on primed canvas panel

The only flower that seems to cope with the awful heat we are experiencing at the moment. Everything else seems to wilt within a day. The problem is that proteas are hard to find at the moment...but this one is a beauty! 

Last day to get 25% off on checkout in the online store. Click on link below.

Purchase paintings at Heidi Shedlock Fine Art

More heat #635

Daily painting #635 5"x7" oil on primed canvas panel 

Oh dear.....it looks like the heat is here to stay for another day! The morning, while glorious and colourful, was already hot and the heat was creating a hazy, steamy glare over the ocean. Please rain make your way to Durban.....we desperately need it!

Only 2 more days to get 25% off on checkout in my online store. Click on the link below to view available daily paintings.

Purchase paintings at Heidi Shedlock Fine Art

Strike a match #634

Daily painting #634 5"x5" oil on primed canvas panel

In my kitchen my oven is electric and my stove top is gas. My oven has needed an element replaced...it clearly overdid the whole 'cooking thing' over the festive season. My oven's electrics have been switched off at the main electric box so I can only cook on my gas top until a technician comes to do the repairs. So by the end of cooking supper my kitchen counter is littered with used matches because with no electrics we are back to striking a match to gas to cook!

Never a dull moment in a house ...always something needing fixing!

25% off on checkout in my online store until the end of the first week in January....click on the link below to view daily paintings.
Purchase paintings at Heidi Shedlock Fine Art

Same bunch #633

Daily painting #633 6"x8" oil on primed canvas panel

This is the same bunch of wilting roses I painted from yesterday. It is a bunch given to me shortly before we left to go away. They were tight buds but it is SO incredibly hot in Durban at the moment that the poor roses don't stand a chance and are already wilting and drooping....pretty much the same as I feel! We have arrived home to dry brown grass, a sorry, sad herb garden and an extremely thirsty heat scorched garden. Humans and furry babies alike are lolling around trying to find shade, a breeze and maybe some respite from the heat! We desperately need some rain, we are already on water restrictions and the weather forecast shows nothing but sunshine! Is it ever going to rain....? Please....

25% off on checkout in my Tictail online store until the end of January so click the link below to view available daily paintings.

Purchase paintings at Heidi Shedlock Fine Art

Homeward bound #632

Daily painting #632 8"x8" oil on primed canvas panel

We are homeward bound....our lovely holiday has come to an end! My son starts playing in a cricket festival on Monday and so it's time to head on home. We have had the most wonderful family time and my 'happy bucket' is full to the brim! 

Pumula Beach you have been good to us....we look forward to being back again soon....from a rested, happy and sun kissed Shedlock family!

25% off on checkout in my Tictail store until the end of the first week in January so click on the link below to view available daily paintings.

Purchase paintings at Heidi Shedlock Fine Art