Painting done on 7 December 2019. I used the “wet-on-wet: technique propagated by Bill Alexander and Bob Ross at the end of the previous millennium. The painting was done without any reference to any specific place … and purely completed from the heart.
African Wildlife absolutely fascinates me – and the enormous challenge to capture that momentary glint in the eye of an African Juvenile Monkey resulted in this work.
The Rock Formation known as “The Finger of God” or Mukurob (in the local vernacular), near Asab in Namibia, was a sandstone rock formation in the Namib Desert which collapsed on 4 December 1988. Only debris is left from this rock pinnacle that once dominated the surrounding desert landscape. Continue reading ›