Waiting #402

Daily painting #402  6"x6" oil on primed canvas panel

This little chap was seen waiting patiently for a space on the feeder. The breakfast rush was on and no one was giving up their spot without a noise! Lots of flurry, feathers and bird seed...most of it landing on the ground as they squabbled for space ...all except my patient friend who eventually and rather cleverly, discovered that to feed off of the spilt offerings on the floor was a breakfast feast...with no fight!

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A weed #401

Daily painting #401 6"x6" oil on primed canvas panel

How can something with such a pretty little flower be considered a weed....what a shame!

Remember to visit the Paintings in the post exhibition at GALLERY 415 in Umgeni Road. 

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Early Sunday morning #400

Daily painting #400 6" x8" oil on primed canvas panel

400 DAYS OF DAILY PAINTINGS....WOW! I never would have thought I could....until I tried!

I have decided not to crop the sky images...they just become lost and distorted and look too abstracted in a close up cropped view.

It is early on Sunday morning and I can't sleep ...so I paint! My head is spinning at the thought that I have reached 400 little daily paintings... So I am enjoying my favourite place this morning . That time of day when the world is quiet and the day full of possibility...

" a daily meditation...a spontaneous and random record of the beauty found in the ordinary..."

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Left over candy #399

Daily painting #399 4"x6" oil on primed canvas panel

The candy companies must rub their hands together with glee as Halloween approaches....it's sugar rush time!!!

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Halloween pumpkin #398

Daily painting #398. 6"x8" oil on primed canvas panel

Our typical South African variety of pumpkin is a hard blue white skinned pumpkin that takes enormous muscle power and a butchers knife to cut open. It certainly would be a hardy task to carve any fancy Halloween pumpkin heads from this variety. Suddenly as Halloween approaches the American orange pumpkin variety starts showing up in every store. Halloween is not celebrated in South Africa with as much gusto as America and for safety reasons there is not a chance that my children would wonder the streets at night trick or treating! So Halloween tends to be a good excuse to get together for a fun dress up party at someones house rather than the door to door trick or treating we are familiar with from the movies! I have been amazed at all the images of carved pumpkins circulating the net...there are some clever people out there! My sculpting skills leave much to be desired and I think I should stick to painting! The closest I came to carving any pumpkin was working up some muscle power cutting slices of this delicious pumpkin for supper....I roasted the giant slices (these pumpkins are big)  in some olive oil, herbs and a dash of chilli flakes....they were delicious!!!
I hope wherever you are that you had a happy Halloween or if you weren't celebrating that you had a happy Friday evening....I love the start of the weekend! I get to spend it with these special people photographed with me at the opening of my exhibition ....my awesome family!

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I've got my eyes on you...#397

Daily painting #397 6"x8" oil on primed canvas panel

For those of you familiar with Paintings in the post, you will know that while I have such gratitude for the possibilities that internet communication provides, I also have a deep sense of respect and need for the tangible. Give me a book rather than my kindle any day and while I would not survive without email and internet, I have a passion for the good old snail mail communication. My love of receiving something tangible in the post is what sparked Paintings in the post! So I could not exhibit my little paintings without recognition for the documentation of my journey, that is the little bit of writing that accompanies each painting each day on the blog. Now you will also know that in starting this project I had a greater fear of sharing my words than my paintings, but I have learnt to shelve that fear and share regardless! My spelling and grammar at times would probably leave my old English teachers spinning but I share what I have to say anyway and the delete button is my best friend!! In a nut shell ....I am a painter...not a writer! But I have taken all the writing from the blog and created something tangible...a true record of my journey...and hopefully something that one day my family will keep as a record of me! A celebration of 365 days of painting and writing, in a book! It is on the exhibition but I can't wait to grab my reading glasses and revisit my days, jog my memory and reflect on my year of painting...

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Wild berry #396

Daily painting #396. 4"x6" oil on primed canvas panel

A little soft, delicate wild berry. On reflection while painting this, I realized this little painting is a reflection of how I am feeling at the moment. I am quite emotional and feeling a little fragile...it's been an exhausting week hanging so many little paintings but more than that I think I have felt quite emotional seeing them all go up together in one space. I feel like I have exposed a rather private and intimate space. Each little painting sparks a memory, it is a document of my days, my journey, something seemingly ordinary yet intimate...
I am looking forward to sharing my journey with others and if I can inspire just one person to paint more, or do something they didn't think they could, then I will be happy!

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