2017 IS GOING TO BE EXCITING TIMES IN THE WORLD OF FINE ARTS.

ARTISTS ARE GOING TO BE ASSISTED TO GET THEIR NAMES OUT IN THE INTERNATIONAL ART MARKETS TO ENABLE THEM TO MAKE A DECENT LIVING OUT OF THEIR ART WORKS AND BECOME FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT.   IT WILL BE DONE BY ENTERING THEIR NAMES AND ARTWORKS ON THIS BLOG AND THEN MARKET THE BLOG INTERNATIONALLY  ON SOCIAL MEDIUMS ACROSS THE WORLD.

ALSO VARIOUS ART COMPETITIONS WILL BE ENTERED INTO BY SUBMITTING THIS BLOG TO THE COMPETITION FORUMS. 

WATCH THIS SPACE FOR MORE DETAILS LATER

THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF HUGE THINGS TO COME FOR THE FINE-ARTIST, INCLUDING MEDIUMS SUCH AS PENCIL, CHARCOAL, ACRYLIC, OIL ETC ETC

NB NB NB ==== WHEN YOU PAGE DOWN TO LOOK AT THE ENTRIES, YOU WILL SEE AT THE END OF EACH PAGE THERE IS A " WINDOW " THAT READS ---OLDER POSTS ---- ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT HAND CORNER OF EACH PAGE .  PLEASE CLICK ON IT TO SEE THE NEXT PAGE OF  ENTRIES ETC ETC  :



HOW TO PLACE A COMMENT ON THE BLOG FOR THE 1 ST TIME

1. GO TO THE BLOG AND LOOK FOR A PAINTING ( WORK OF ART ) YOU WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT ON. 

2. CLICK ON THE BUTTON THAT SAYS --------COMMENTS

3. A WINDOW WILL OPEN WHERE YOU CAN PLACE YOUR COMMENTS 

4. GO TO THE BUTTON WHERE IT SAYS ------ PUBLISH---AND CLICK

5. IT WILL THEN TAKE YOU TO A PAGE WITH A LOT OF INFO ON YOU MUST JUST IGNORE ------ AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE THERE IS A BUTTON THAT SAYS ----CONTINUE TO BLOGGER ---- JUST CLICK ON IT AND YOUR COMMENT WILL BE DISPLAYD

6. HERE AFTER IF YOU WANT TO COMMENT YOU COMMENT AND THEN CLICK ON PUBLISH AND THATS ALL, GO ON TO NEXT ART WORK. 

7. IF YOU HAVE FURTHER ISSUES, PHONE ME ON 0765905640 AND I WILL GUIDE YOU 

REGARDS NIKI

LINDA-ZANE SERFONTEIN ( LANDSDELL )

TITLE : PROTEA
MEDIUM : ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
SIZE : 30.5 X 30.5 CM

TITLE : RUSTIC ROSES
MEDIUM : ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
SIZE : 600 X 840

TITLE : FISHERMAN'S COTTAGE
MEDIUM : ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
SIZE: 29.5 X 20.5

 TITLE : THE DOOR 
MEDIUM : ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
SIZE : 29  X 42 CM

TITLE : AMAZING LOVE
MEDIUM : ACRYLIC
SIZE : 58 X 83 CM

 TITLE : THE ISLAND
MEDIUM : ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
SIZE 30 X 23 CM

 TITLE : CAPE ROWN BREAKFAST
MEDIUM : ACRYLIC ON ROUND BOARD
SIZE : 40 X 40 CM

TITLE : LESOTHO
MEDIUM : ACRYLIC ON BOARD
SIZE : 38 X 74 CM

TITLE : GOLDEN PROTEA
MEDIUM: ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
SIZE: 30.5 X 30.5


ABOUT THE ARTIST :

Since I can remember I have a passion for Art. As a child my first love was pencil and charcoal sketches.  I spend many hours with my sketchpad and created my own world. I got the opportunity at the age of 15 to sketch for a company’s  monthly newsletter. Later on I have entered a competition where we have to  design a cover for a book.  I won the 1^st prize with my design of an owl done in charcoal. A few years later I entered another competition with a charcoal and pencil still life sketch. Again I walked away with the first prize. From thereon I couldn’t imagine a day without drawing or painting. I realized that I want to make art my career but  unfortunately I didn’t get a chance.

I spend 20 years in service of the SAPS but still in between working,  studying for my LLB degree and Diploma in Negotiation through Unisa I always made time for my painting. I even gave fabric paint classes once a month for elderly people and children. During this time I experimented  with different mediums like oil, gouache and pastels. But I love acrylic. That is my medium of preference.

About six months ago my husband gave me the opportunity to become a full time artist.  I did not had any formal training until about a month ago when I met a very talented artist Helen Brice-Willis. She gave me some tips (tricks of the trade, like she calls it) and I did three paintings with her. I get most of my knowledge about art in my collection of art books and magazines.

My aim is not to do create realistic paintings but just to create a piece of art that can be enjoyed by an art lover or anyone who love beautiful things. I want my paintings to speak to the buyer because every painting represents a feeling and a piece of who I am. 

I have not done any solo exhibitions as yet but looking forward to have my first exhibition later this year in Margate KZN.  Currently my work are exhibited with those of other artists in Margate.

Painting is absolutely my happy place.  It is my way of escaping to a world of creativity.  While busy with a painting I found that I am losing touch with reality.  I am totally drawn into my own creative “space”.

 To me my brush is a magic wand…..

 

Email: lindaserfontein5@gmail.com

DELENE LAMBERT

MEDIUM : OIL ON UNSTRETCHED CANVAS
SIZE :  1200 X 800

MEDIUM : OIL ON UNSTRETCHED CANVAS
SIZE :  1200 X 800  

MEDIUM : OIL ON UNSTRETCHED CANVAS
SIZE :  1200 X 800   

MEDIUM : OIL ON UNSTRETCHED CANVAS
SIZE :  1200 X 800   

MEDIUM : OIL ON UNSTRETCHED CANVAS
SIZE :  1100 X 1100  

MEDIUM : OIL ON UNSTRETCHED CANVAS
SIZE :  1100 X 1100 

MEDIUM : OIL ON UNSTRETCHED CANVAS
SIZE :  1100 X 1100 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Delene Lambert is a self-taught artist specializing in wildlife art. After getting married to Tom Lambert, a farmer in the Featherstone district of Chivhu, Zimbabwe it was very isolated on the farm and she needed to do something. Her mother had taken art lessons with a lady living close by and invited her to join. It was a magical lesson and although the first paintings were pretty dreadful she loved it and from that moment was hooked. The farm was part of a conservancy so she had many opportunities to observe the animals in their natural habitat. 

In 2002 political upheaval in Zimbabwe prevailed and she, her husband and two small children were given 24 hours to leave with only what could be packed on one of the farm trucks. Having been stripped of home and income art was a form of escape and was able to sell her paintings to keep their heads above water. They moved to Harare Zimbabwe where Tom opened a borehole and pump business and she had her first exhibition. They then moved to South Africa and haven't looked back. 

Delene spends many hours at waterholes taking photographs to work from and her preferred medium is oil on canvas. She is a listed artist in 'Artists of the Waterberg' directory, has been the subject of several magazine and newspaper articles and has had successful exhibitions. She has been commissioned to do the paintings for Lephalale municipal offices and the Anglo-American game lodges. Her paintings are sold worldwide. 

 

ANNA-MARE BUYS

TITLE : MOODS
MEDIUM: OIL ON CANVAS - PALETTE WORK
SIZE : 150 X 300

TITLE : AWARENESS
MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS ---PALETTE WORK
SIZE : 200 X 600

TITLE : LEMONS
MEDIUM: OIL ON BELGIUM LINEN PANEL PALETTE WORK
SIZE : 100 X 80

TITLE : HOME
MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS FRAMED  --PALETTE KNIFE WORK

SAME AS ABOVE ---UNFRAMED


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Anna-Maré Buys
This artist grew up in a town named Phillippolis in the southern Freestate. Her close interaction with nature taught her to observe very closely en to display this observations with brush or palet on canvas. She has been painting full time since 2009 in oil and has a loose impressionistic realistic style. The essential of her art is the atmosphere that she creates with color and brush strokes or palet, with emphasize on clouds. The purpose of her art is to catch the hunger for the beauty in life and to show it to people. Her inspiration comes from different places in the country , but specially the Eastern Freestate and the oceans. Light, texture and color is extremely important to her .

She has attended several workshops by well known artists in South Africa as well as Italy. Some of her art has been sent to America, Italy, Malaysia, and Lesotho and also does exhibits at large Arts Festivals . "Life feeds Art and Art feeds Life. " --- J Moreau.
E-mail : abuys50@gmail.com
Facebook : Gallery Anna-Mare Buys & Nunkies Art    


Hierdie kunstenaar het opgegroei in Phillippolis in die Suid-Vrystaat. Haar noue interaksie met die platteland en die natuur het haar vermoë om te opserweer en weer te gee met verfkwas of palet gevorm. Sy skilder voltyds vanaf 2009 en eksperimenteer met olie en so n los impressionisties realistiese styl ontwikkel. Die essensie van haar werke is die atmosfeer wat sy skep met kleur en kwasmerke of met palet, veral met die klem op wolke.
Die doel van haar werk is om die honger na die mooi in die lewe vas te vang en vir die kyker oor te bring. Sy kry inspirasie uit verskillende tonele regoor die land, veral die Oos-Vrystaat en die see. Lig, tekstuur en kleur is vir haar belangrik.
Sy het verskeie werkswinkels deur bekende kunstenaars bygewoon in Suid_Afrika sowel as Italië. Van haar werke is na Amerika, Italië, Maleisië en Lesotho en sy stal uit by die grootste kunstefeeste.
“Life feeds Art and Art feeds Life” – J Moreau Epos: abuys50@gmail.com
Fb bladsy: Gallery Anna-Maré Buys & Nunkies Art

Nunkies Kuns
Anna-Maré Buys skilder onder die naam Nunkies ( noemnaam deur haar Griekwa kinderoppasser) die meer kontemporêre werk.
Sy skilder hoofsaaklik figure wat emosie uitbeeld in helder kontrasterende kleure met baie tekstuur. Haar inspirasie kom van haar laaste skilderstuk. Sy glo daar is nooit n laaste eindpunt in skilder nie, maar n deurlopende reis met aanhoudende vernuwing en kontemporêre skilderkuns verleen haar daartoe.

THEUNS KOEKEMOER

TITLE : POINT MOSSELBAY
MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE : 610 X 460 STRETCHED CANVAS 

TITLE : KLAARSTROOM : 
MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE: 610 X 460

TITLE : BEAUTY IS IN THE WOMAN
MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE : 910 X 610 ON 4CM BOXED CANVAS

TITLE : BEAUTY IS IN THE WOMAN PART 2
MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS :
SIZE : 910 X 610



ABOUT THE ARTIST :

T’Kay Artist Biography

Tel: 081 465 4009

Email: theuns1000@gmail.com

Artist Name: T’Kay

Real Name: Theuns Koekemoer

Birth date: 7 January 1970.

I started of many years ago doing solely pencil sketching which included graphite, charcoal as well as coloured pencil.

Four years ago I decided to take up the brush and started off with oil paintings. My fine eye for detail has come into play into the oil paintings which I adopted with the years of experience with sketching in fine detail.  I have a distinctive eye for colour use and tend to mix my colours to as close as possible to similarly that of the subject matt

Subject matters include but are not limited to wildlife, landscapes, seascapes, portraiture, figurative and still life, with an exceptionally great love towards figurative, nature and wildlife studies.

The oil paints I use is Winsor and Newton and Daler Rowney range of paints.

I do not strive to become a super realist artist, but my end product must be realistically good enough.   I still want my admirers to realise the painting is still a painting. Many hours of fine detail goes into my work until I am satisfied with the end product.  People have started to know me by my distinctive style which I developed on my own, which is unique to me and not at all adopted from any other artist.  I have learnt with trial by error until I have reached a point until where I am satisfied with my work, knowing that my clients will also then be satisfied when they buy an original “T’Kay” which would definitely be an investment to the owner.

Selling points have been via internet, a successful group exhibition, a couple of craft markets as well as through a couple of galleries.  I have already sold numerous local artworks as well as overseas to New-Zealand, Netherlands, UK and USA.

The artist name “T’Kay” is derived from when phonetically speaking out my initials, under which I have already established a name in the artist market. I guess the name “Kay” gives an eerie glow to my name, as Sir Kay was one of the Knights of the Round Table.

T’Kay

DANIE CRONJE

MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE: 800 X 600

 MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE : 900 X 600
ON STRETCHED CANVAS 1.5CM ==READY TO HANG.

MEDIUM : PASTELS 

MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE : 600 X 500

MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE : 750 X 500

MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE : 750 X 500

MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE : 1000 X 750

ABOUT THE ARTIST

My shortened  CV: 

Danie Cronje is a South African artist. His oil paintings and pastel drawings are featured in the Ffiago Art Gallery as well as the Erika Turvey Art Gallery. One of his sketches appeared in a national magazine (Huisgenoot) when he was 12 years old. His cartoon strips are also being used in school textbooks by three publishers since 2013. He was illustrator for books about army life in 1986 and his cartoons appeared in a national newspaper from 1987 to 1989. Since 2004 he specialises in portraits and the female figure. Three of his pastel artworks were included in the book of artists over the world, "Visual Creativity, Vol 3" by Mark McGough.