Cool site

Great little paintings : http://www.royalartlodge.com/

The Purge

Let's try this again shall we?

I decided to get rid of a lot of dead weight and hopefully clear the cupboard for some new blood. The following scetches was borne out of a certain approach that all started with a drawing of a go-cart race. Almost 2 years later I re-discovered this little gem and decided to elaborate a bit - see where it takes me - the result is maybe somewhat of a diversion from the usual calculated risks - and more intuitive, call it automatic drawing ( Kerouac would be proud - or would he? Hmmmm...)





The one that started it all



First attempts at elaboration on the theme



I like this one



And this one





Later attempts :

Dudu

Hello, remember me? I used to blog here every now and then.. nowadays it's more "once in a blue moon". I promise to have my people look at the problem and get back to your people with some recommendations and timings. In the meantime - here's something I did recently , ok?

Little Girl

While we're on a roll, here's one inspired by my daughter.. I thought I'd colour this one in for a change..

Old Man

Ok, so I know it's been a while, but who's counting anyway? This one's for Jason Bronkhorst, who was the catalyst for something amazing happening to me. After nagging him endlessly, he was generous enough to give me an inkwell, and pen with various tips to start experimenting with. The results was something astounding... soon I was drawing semi-convincing figures for the first time... something that's always intimidated me; plus I discovered a whole new aesthetic to drawing I never thought I'd be able to reach..

It's as if the pen forced me to think about every stroke I made, and it shows ...
So thanks Jason... appreciate the interest and encouragement...



an old man that just came to me out of nowhere...




Some bathing ladies.. also.. out of nowhere



I really dig the postal stamps




Quote by John Lennon : "It is knowing, it is not dreaming.. of the beginning"

Open letter to Theresa-Anne Mackintosh

Dear Theresa-Anne,

I was paging through a catalogue / booklet of your solo exhibition held in 2004, and realized again how brilliant and still so relevant your work is. As you may remember, I added your site under my links section a while ago. So this morning , when I clicked on the link, disaster struck. To start of with I spelt your name wrong, which you initially so kindly pointed out to me, and to add injury to insult, I discovered that the link itself was incorrect and actually went to the Apple home page. SO - Apologies Theresa-Anne, for totally screwing that one up; and thanks once again for the inspiration.

Sincerely
Marcel Rossouw

NOW GO LOOK AT HER WORK : CLICK HERE

Chalk and cheese

The amazing , and simultaneously dangerous thing about chalkboards is that you could carry on until 2 in the morning (or until your chalk runs out) , forever drawing , correcting, drawing ( and if you have a camera, the added element of documentation - very important of course)