my life, my art

Why no updates

2007-08-08T13:06:00.000-07:00

Living on a cruise ship makes it really difficult to update my blog...That is why there is at the moment no new pictures. Going back home in September I will update with photos and hopefully some art work.
Sorry! But keep in touch!

Alaska

2007-06-03T14:35:00.000-07:00

Auctioneer Training Detroit - Miami

2007-05-07T19:27:00.000-07:00

Some photos of all the stuff I have been busy with the last week or so....

Take my hand

2007-04-20T22:32:00.000-07:00

Koebaai...

2007-04-20T07:47:00.000-07:00

Dis tyd om totsiens te sê vir my kollegas en my favourite kids by die skool. Julle maak dit nou ook nie maklik nie - maar ongelooflik dankie vir als. Gaan julle almal BAIE BAIE mis. Love you all....

Happy

2007-04-13T05:04:00.000-07:00

solitare landscape

2007-04-09T00:02:00.000-07:00

oil on canvas paper

This is another landscape with dead trees. I did this painting in one session and work with glazes. There is just something special for me with this one...

Losing a friend

2007-04-05T22:01:00.000-07:00

It is not often that you meet great people and really think by yourself - wow this is a friendship that is gonna last. How wrong could I have been. Just as quick a friendship may form - it can go down the drain in just a few seconds. That really hurts! And it is one of those things that I can't do anything about but just have to count my losses...

Bush Babes

2007-04-04T03:48:00.000-07:00

What a great experience to be part of this !!!

Meisies leer hulself wees
Tswane Beeld Apr 04 2007 11:01:59:430AM - (SA)

Christopher de Wet

Vir talle kinders is dinge soos om te kamp, te speel, vriende te maak en om gewoonweg kind te wees, iets wat as vanselfsprekend aanvaar word.
Maar vir diegene wat in kinderhuise grootword, is sulke dinge ’n happening – iets soos ’n sprokie uit ’n storieboek.
Só sê mnr. Theo Coetzee, een van die leiers van Soap Kidz, oor die leemtes wat mishandelde en minderbevoorregte kinders ervaar.
Die Soap Kidz-groep in Pretoria het die afgelope naweek sowat 50 meisies van kinderhuise van Mamelodi, Senekal, Heidelberg en Danville op ’n uitstappie na die Roodeplaat-natuurreservaat geneem vir ’n Bush Babes-kamp.
“Soap Kidz se doel is om deurlopend dié kinders op kampe te neem sodat hulle onder meer lewensvaardighede, natuurbewaring, selfwaarde en die waarde van vriendskap kan aanleer.
“Op dié kampe word die kinders saam met ander kinders wat uit soortgelyke omstandighede kom, opgedeel.
“Dit is hier waar hulle sien dat daar ook ander kinders is met ’n hartseer lewe, maar dat daar altyd hoop is,” sê Coetzee.
Me. Karen Hauptfleisch, stigter van Soap Kidz, sê sy het oorspronklik begin deur ’n groep kinders in die natuur rond te neem om rommel op te tel.
“Teen die einde van 2006 het nagenoeg 1 388 kinders aan die Soap Kidz-program deelgeneem en altesame 681 sakke rommel uit die natuur versamel.
“Deur die rommel op te ruim,, leer die kinders respek vir die natuur, hulself en ander,” sê Hauptfleisch.
Volgens Coetzee is die doel van die Bush Babes-kamp om die meisies meer te leer van algemene sake soos kosmaak, tafeldek en kreatiwiteit.
Dit is dinge wat hulle nie by kinderhuise leer nie omdat hul ouers, veral moeders, gewoonlik afwesig is.
“Van die aktiwiteite wat die meisies op die spesifieke kamp doen, is onder meer ’n potjiekosdag waar sommiges vir die eerste keer in hul lewe self kan kos maak.
“Hulle dek ook self die tafels met goed wat hulle uit asblikke, die natuur en omgewing kry.
“Só leer hulle om kreatief te wees met wat hulle het.
“Hulle het ook ’n modeparade gehou waar hulle rokke uit plastieksakke moes maak.
“Sodoende het hulle geleer dat hulle selfs met ‘niks’ tog mooi en kreatief kan wees,” sê Coetzee.
Volgens hom is Soap Kidz baie afhanklik van skenkings. Hulle het ook volwassenes nodig wat tydens dié naweke as vrywilligers kan help.

Friends and coffee

2007-04-04T03:25:00.000-07:00

thoughts on the moon...

2007-04-02T01:42:00.000-07:00

Just wondering if other people out there been intoxicated or go a little bit crazy if it is full moon?

Against the wall

2007-03-21T08:31:00.000-07:00

I did this entry last night, feeling that I am with my back against a wall and that there is no doors of opportunity opening for me. What a big surprise when I received a phone call in the middle of the night offering me a job opportunity to work on a cruise liner. This is my big break! Just shows you how quickly circumstances can change. I have been praying so much for something like this and just realise that I am serving an awesome God

Some more paintings...

2007-03-20T02:55:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas paper

Some more paintings that I did and as you can see I work with brighter colours. Something different for me but it was really nice playing around with colour.

Coffee

2007-03-09T05:51:00.000-08:00

Oil on board

A painting that just reflect the feeling of relaxation... and for me that can be a nice cup of coffee

Markdag

2007-03-03T07:30:00.000-08:00

Ek het vandag my skilderye uitgestal by die Kunshuis in Middelburg se markdag. Dit was 'n great dag en ek het dit rerig geniet om saam met ander kunstenaars te werk en kuier.

Trees through window

2007-02-24T00:04:00.000-08:00

Oil on canvas

These two paintings I gave to my brother to take with when they go back to NZ on Monday.

Fisheagle and Fish

2007-02-15T21:18:00.000-08:00

Oil on board

This painting I finished last week before going to hospital. Maybe the painting is a little about the food chain, but I do like putting different things together and not just to paint a plain still life.

Appendix

2007-02-14T00:44:00.000-08:00

Long time not writing, but I have been in Kosmos Hospital for my appendix to be removed. Not at all that I have plan for my weekend. But luckily I am home now, and feeling better but still with some pain. Then my stomach is swollen and I look like a hippo. One thing I realize is that I hate hospitals ( haven't been to one in 12 years). Ahh... but to make things better is that I really have great families and friends caring for me and praying for me. I am on my way to recovery!

Ignorance

2007-02-09T10:41:00.000-08:00

Oil on Canvas

People have become so conditionded

to human suffering

that they can now

successfully

ignore it

Butterfly

2007-02-06T07:08:00.000-08:00

Oil on board / Ceramics

Party Time!

2007-02-04T07:29:00.000-08:00

Wat 'n wonderlike voorreg om my 31ste verjaarsdag saam my broerskind Xander se 1ste verjaarsdag te vier op die 3de Februarie! Veral nog omdat my broer, Hanro, Zonia en Xander eers die vorige aand van NZ af kom kuier het hier in Suid-Afrika. Al die familie het saam gekuier en dit het letterlik gelyk soos nagmaal op Prieska hier by ons. Dan het oupa Hendrik ook nog vanoggend vir Xander gedoop - wat 'n blessing! Al die kuier en te veel eet was heeeeerlik! Dankie vir al die familie en vriende wat hierdie spesiale dag met my en Xander gedeel het

Somebody

2007-02-01T11:02:00.000-08:00

Another entry in my visual dairy.... wish that I had someone special in my life

Sprokies

2007-01-28T09:53:00.000-08:00

Key

2007-01-25T07:22:00.000-08:00

oil on board

Ek het nogal 'n rukkie gesoek na 'n sleutel wat ek op die skildery kon gebruik en een wat werk. So is dit seker ook maar met die lewe dat mens altyd opsoek is na sleutels wat deure vir mens oopmaak. Soms hou ons ook aan karring met sleutels wat nie pas nie en raak net gefrustreerd as dit nie werk nie. Dan, soos wat ek gereeld doen, verloor of verlê ek ook altyd sleutels en kan dit nie vind wanneer ek dit soek nie. Ek kan my ook gelukkig ag vir sleutels wat ek al ontvang het in my lewe, van my ouers, vriende en God wat ook vir my moontlikhede oopsluit en dan ook weer ander deure toe hou waar ek nie moet gaan nie. Daarom is die skildery ook van betekenis oor al die sleutels in my lewe, vir my toekoms en drome....

Travel

2007-01-18T10:00:00.000-08:00

Dreams do come true.... Travel and seeing new places always been the one big thing I want to do with my life. At some stage I thought it would never happen, but last year I went to visit my brother in NZ and the travel bug got hold of me. Now I am on my way to South Korea to go and work there for a year...and a new adventure is awaiting me.

landscape

2007-01-18T09:55:00.000-08:00

Oil on canvas

One of the very few paintings that I did impasto and also the first painting I ever sold ( to my dad)

Karel's 21 birthday

2007-01-14T09:00:00.000-08:00

Me and my friend Karel, his sister Ilse and mom went on a road trip for his birthday. We did the Magalies Meander route and stop almost at each place on our way. Goblins Cove was just absolutely magic, where we had dinner. We stayed over at the Moonlight backpackers and went for breakfast to Hartebeespoort dam. This trip did me so goooood and it was so much fun!!!

Garbage

2007-01-11T09:53:00.000-08:00

I am really tired of guys that think they can just use and abuse me. Just forget about me ( and that I actually do have feelings) and make if I do not exist. Then I start asking myself what is wrong with me and just feeling angry. It makes me wonder are there any decent, honest guys still out there.......

Back to school

2007-01-10T04:06:00.000-08:00

Today I return back to school - that is Cambridge Academy in Witbank where I teach. All the hard work is starting again and we are all on the go. Being the horrible teacher that I am, the kids already start with work today. Play time is over....

Rain

2007-01-08T09:54:00.000-08:00

Ceramics

2007-01-04T22:32:00.000-08:00

These pieces of work I just taken out this morning out of the kiln after glazing it. There is still much to learn about pottery but I really love doing it.

Lion

2007-01-04T08:16:00.000-08:00

Oil on canvas

Hierdie was die heel eerste dier wat ek geverf het. Ek het wel 'n foto gebruik... maar dink nie dit het te sleg gekom nie. My pa Hendrik het die skildery en baie trots daarop. Het hierna weer diere geverf, maar ek sal nou nie sê dat dit my gunsteling onderwerp is om te verf nie.

Reis

2007-01-03T09:33:00.000-08:00

Waar ek ookal reis is daar net een soos jy....

Hope

2007-01-02T04:43:00.000-08:00

Oil on board

Hoop is die enigste wat oorgebly het in Pandora's se boks. Die jaar 2007 is dit ook waarmee ek tegemoet gaan: hoop. Daar is redelik baie dinge waarop ek my hoop plaas... of dit sal gebeur, ek moet maar wag en kyk.

2006-12-29T07:16:00.000-08:00

Oil on board

Most of the times I work on more than one painting at a time. These I did the finishing touches today.

Alone

2006-12-28T09:13:00.000-08:00

Sometimes I feel like I am the only person in the universe...

Saxophone

2006-12-28T09:04:00.000-08:00

Oil on canvas

One other big love of my life is my saxophone. Not that I that good in playing, but I do try and make some noise

Faces

2006-12-22T22:32:00.000-08:00

Oil on board / mix media

These are some of the faces that I painted. All these face are from my memory and I used some mix media to get a little bit of texture.

Fingerpainting

2006-12-22T10:48:00.000-08:00

acrylic on canvas

This whole painting I did only with my fingers. A bit of a mess but great fun. Good to play around with paint just like when I was a little girl.

Handmade Cards

2006-12-20T21:23:00.000-08:00

Me, Emsie and Lanie ( visiting from Askham) been busy yesterday making cards. These two girls are really very creative and I had fun working with them.

Blou

2006-12-20T09:55:00.000-08:00

Dit is vir Andrew, oor jy my alleen laat agterbly... 'n song van Andrè Swiegers : Blou

Blou

AS DIE SKEMER KOM EN HY VANG MY BY JOU
EN HY STUUR JOU TERUG NA JOU HUIS TOE
WIE SOU VERSTAAN HOE EK SOU VOEL
WIE SOU VERSTAAN

ORAL OM, OM MY HEEN
IS DIT BLOU
WANT EK WIL BY JOU WEES
EK WIL BY JOU WEES VANAAND

TYD EN PLEK BEPAAL WAT GEBEUR
NIEMAND KAN DIT KEER NIE
Sê MY WAT’S REG
EN WAT IS VERKEERD
WIE SOU BEPAAL?

ORAL OM, OM MY HEEN
IS DIT BLOU
WANT EK WIL BY JOU WEES
EK WIL BY JOU WEES VANAAND

ALLES IS BLOU
ALLES IS BLOU
BLOU IS DIE WOLKE
BLOU IS DIE MAAN
BLOU IS DIE VENSTER WAARBY EK STAAN
BLOU IS MY HART EN BLOU MY GEDAGTES
BLOU OM MY HEEN
ALLES IS BLOU
ALLES IS BLOU
ALLES IS BLOU
ALLES OOR JOU

Khoi San

2006-12-19T23:18:00.000-08:00

Oil on Canvas

Gesiguitdrukkings kan so baie sê. Veral die wat ek gedoen het van die boesman. Gesigte verf is een van my gunsteling onderwerpe om te skilder.

Wegbreek

2006-12-19T06:39:00.000-08:00

So paar dae gevlug na die Drakensberge - salig! Daar vertoef by die backpackers en alte heerlik gekuier. Die trip Lesotho toe was great self die pynappelbier het ek oorleef. Sou net graag meer van die berge wou sien maar dit het gesous en self die hael was bietjie te erg. Thanx Hanna (from Sweden) for your contribution to my visual dairy

2006-12-19T02:25:00.000-08:00

Some of my work at the Dullstroom Art Gallery. Most of the work is inspired by nature and done in oil and some even with mix media.

2006-12-19T02:16:00.000-08:00

Oil on Canvas

Eating sorrow. One of my favourite paintings

2006-12-18T23:27:00.000-08:00

Oil on canvas

Elke man het 'n kop
'n lyf
en twee bene
hulle probeer jou namaak
- Ingrid Jonker -