Where does santa buy this shoes?

November 6, 2012

Taking part in the Santa’s shoebox charity drive is one of the most rewarding annual activities we do as a family. The santa’s shoebox charity collects donated boxes of essentials and treats for over 100 000 underprivileged babies, children and teens across South Africa. They are super organised and very careful that each child gets [...]

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Monkeying around

October 13, 2012

Monkey doodle. He is a bit naf, but he has a sweet face. As opposed to this chap who is really not behaving well….

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Quacking up

October 3, 2012

  Whenever I have to wait for something, I end up doodling. But when a sketchbook is not at hand, I doodle on any handy piece of paper. Which usually means that I stuff the paper into whichever bag I happen to be carrying and it sits there un-loved and unnoticed until I do a [...]

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The Library Witch

September 25, 2012

In an earlier post I described the team of tiny netball players who named themselves “the Wicked Witches”. One of the team members just happens to be the daughter of a preparatory school librarian. Her mother is one of those people whose looks belie their character. She LOOKS like a librarian. She breathes flames and shoots [...]

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RED-volutionary tendencies

September 13, 2012

It has been an interesting 24 hours… School started for the final semester of the year, and with it, a borderline insane level of activity. Day Two brought the news that the Grade 11 group would be starting to take over from the Grade 12 group as they have final exams looming. First on the [...]

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Wild mapping – journey’s end

September 6, 2012

  In my previous post I described the beginnings of this very satisfying project. Here is the final painting. The border was by far the most challenging and rewarding part of the project. In order to get a sketchy feel to the critters on the “pages” I decided that black would be too harsh, so opted [...]

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Wild mapping – the journey begins

September 4, 2012

 I was asked by Lapalala Wilderness School to create a map for display at the school. Their old one was created back in the year of the Rinderpest (or thereabouts) and was looking decidedly weather-worn. I would have a week in residence at the reserve to complete the painting, as it was easier (and nicer) than [...]

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Mandela Day

August 27, 2012

  Youth Day (June 16) and Mandela Day (July 18) this year were two days spent with the Heronbridge College community outreach programme, building a preschool in the Diepsloot informal settlement north of Johannesburg. The teacher at the preschool is a graduate of the HeronBridge Training and Resource Centre, a much-needed pre-school teacher training programme, aimed at uplifting [...]

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Barking up the right tree

July 24, 2012

    Changing the whole look and feel of a wine label is akin to re-branding a company. In the case of the Painted Wolf Wines’ most popular range, it was a result of feedback from distributors around the world who felt that the old labels were just not friendly enough. And I would have [...]

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The Wicked Witches – actually quite adorable

May 11, 2012

One of my daughters coached a grade 1&2 netball teams as part of a school holiday programme at school. It’s the funniest thing to see an extraordinarily tall teen surrounded by these tiny girls, it looks like a giraffe being attacked by a whole tribe of pygmies. The theme of the week was ‘fairy tales’ and [...]

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