Rose, cherry tomatoes, mini glass

 Oil on Masonite, 15 x 20 cm:

This work is for sale. Contact me at briavds@gmail.com.

Bell peppers

Acrylics on Masonite, 15 x 20 cm:

This item is for sale on my Daily Paintworks Gallery.

Tomato and banana

Acrylics on Masonite, 15 x 20 cm:

I have been rather busy with bankers and bureaucrats, as well as some non-fine art projects (watch this space!). But finally had time for a quick painting again. This sort of small still life done from the result of a raid on the kitchen remains an old favorite genre of mine.

This item may be for sale on my Bid-or-Buy store. 

Onion and bottle

Oil on board, 20 x 15 cm (= about 8 x 6 in):

Back to still life, but I decided to try something other than my usual dark backgrounds.

Onion and herbs

Oil on board, 20 x 15 cm:

Egg, mushroom, tomato

Oil on board, 10 x 15 cm (= 4 x 6 inches):

One of the last cherry tomatoes sill on the last surviving plant before winter hits us here...

Grapes, mushrooms

And another small one. I really should do a whole series of them, but we'll see...
Oil on board, 10 x 15 cm (= 4 x 6 inches):

Mini bottle, mini tomatoes

Been a while since I have made one of these mini paintings. Oil on board, 15 x 10 cm (= 6 x 4 inches):

Tomato and mushrooms

Oil on board, 15 x 20 cm (= about 6 x 8 inches):

Onion, herbs, oil

Oil on board, 20 x 25 cm (= about 8 x 10 inches):

Cloves, tomato, apricot jam

I remain torn between oils and acrylics for this sort of painting. Both have their own advantages and disadvantages. In practice, I work with one for a while, then get sick of it and switch to the other. Perhaps I'll eventually figure out which one I really prefer.

Oil on board, 20 x 15 cm (=about 8 x 6 inches):

Mini tomatoes

Acrylics on board, 20 x 15 cm (8 x 6 inches):

Baby Brinjal Brothers

Acrylic on board, 10 x 15 cm (= 4 x 6 in):

A YUGE cow

EDIT, 27/11/2019:

The book announced below has since been unpublished, so it is no longer available at Amazon. I have decided to make it available for free at a rather nice little website I just discovered, called Storyweaver.

My latest children's book, Itumeleng and the Moo-normous Cow, is finally available!

You can read the first few pages on my Books page here.

An Afrikaans version is also available:

It's a bit of a departure from my previous books, in that it is extensively illustrated. I had so much fun with it, I think I'm going to stick to this format for a while!

Red things

Acrylic on board, 20 x 15 cm (= about 8 x 6 inches):

Tomato, Marmite, herbs

Oil on board, 15 x 20 cm (= about 6 x 8 inches):

Salt shaker and cherry tomatoes

Oil on board, 15 x 10 cm (= about 6 x 4 inches):

As I worked on this one, I took a series of WIP photos, which I planned on working into a YouTube video. I'll see if I get around to it. Unfortunately some of the photos came out thoroughly out of focus, so it might not be too spectacular. I can say this: there are few things that break one's concentration and "flow" quite as much as stopping all the time to take a photo!

Mustard and tomato

Oil on board, 15 x 20 cm (= about 6 x 8 inches):

After a long battle with lack of sun and tough clay soil, I finally managed to get a tomato plant to grow and produce a few fruit. Makes for a nice edible model!