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  • Penguin staring at the stars

    My one-year-old daughter loves penguins so I thought I'd draw her one. We're luck enough to live close to a colony so she gets to see real ones fairly often. But hardly ever at night.

  • Snail kraal

    I've started doing a bit of vegetable gardening and snails are always a problem in our garden. But apparently they cannot cross a barrier made of copper. So I tried this out with a couple of snails and some 5c pieces. They did manage to escape but one rode on the other one's back and the one at the bottom didn't look like it was enjoying itself at all - it was curling its foot up. I suppose it's a bit like licking a battery. But your tongue is your foot. I think copper flashing might be a more effective barrier than money.

  • Cars

    I have an exhibition of paintings coming up this July at the AVA Gallery in Cape Town. I'm painting parking lots which means lots of cars. So I went up the local mountain yesterday and photographed some cars for reference. Seems white and silver are firm favourites.

  • Dandelion leaf

    I'd never really noticed how weird a dandelion leaf looks.

  • House cups

    Some more drawings on Christo Giles cups. He's going to try one without glaze on the outside of the cup and one fully glazed. I'm not sure what the subtle shading will do in the oven. 

  • Cup Drawings

    I just had a look at some of Christo Giles's cups I've been drawing on that have come out the oven. They look great. I drew on a whole lot more today and they should all be ready for the Rondebosch Potters Market this Saturday.

  • New A-hole

  • Big Five Superheroes

  • Sobeit and Friends Sale

    A few of us are getting together to sell some stuff in Muizenberg on Friday and Saturday next week.  It should be fun - and if you've never seen Sobeit Studios, you're in for a treat.

    Here are the people involved:

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kwaai-Toys/125258747501914?fref=ts

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Loyde-Villarroel-Swimwear-Lingerie-Designer/269836669788524

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gen/305529076197178

    www.sobeitstudio.com

    www.christogiles.com

    www.patricklatimer.co.za

    www.jolenekritzinger.com

    (And thanks Marlise for designing the poster)

  • A suspicious golfer

  • Drawings on cups

    Christo Giles - a local potter of far-flung renown - suggested I try some drawings on some of his new slipcast cups he's been experimenting with. Here are some pics of the raw , unfired drawings. I'm waiting to see what happens once they're fired. The lines might fuzz a little - which could be good. I'm intrigued to see the results.

  • Boston Terrier

    Once, when I was selling illustration prints at a market, someone asked my if I'd ever drawn a Boston Terrier. I hadn't - until today.

    You can buy a print of it here: http://patricklatimer.co.za/shop

  • Bob Dylan

    The third in my folk musician series. A young Bob Dylan somewhere in Minnesota.

    Who's next? I'm thinking Lead Belly.

    Prints of this and few other illustrations are now available at my online shop. I'll be adding a whole lot more in the weeks to come.

  • Haunted houses

    This is for a story about South Africa's famous ghost houses. The two ladies here are from Matjiesfontein and they're coming out of a house in Pretoria called Erasmus Castle.

  • Marriage

    This is for a story about foreign Africans marrying local South Africans for citizenship.

  • Woody Guthrie

    This is the second in a series of folk musician portraits. Woody was known as the 'Dust Bowl Troubadour'. Born in Oklahoma in 1912, he experienced the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression and travelled to California with the migrant workers, learning their songs. He's sort of the John Steinbeck of folk music.

    Here are a couple of close-up details:

  • Trees and Houses

    Some leftover bits from one illustration became another illustration.

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